I have both a pink blooming one and a red blooming Xmas cactus which I can share with you, but I cannot figure out how to contact you directly on this site. You can email me @ thaicat6@yahoo.com if you are interested.

Did you get some cuttings?

Just to add to the confusion.....One of the local Orchid Society members at the spring orchid show had three pots of the large straggley red flowered Unknown Epi in bloom for $30 a pot. I suggested she mark the price down. Didn't! So she took the pots home. I have quite a few Epidendrums, but no room for the large straggly old timers. Orchid nurseries are aware of this and I think it was Cal Orchids who did some breeding to reduce plant size, but try and keep the floral display. I have one in bloom at the moment. Epi. Pretty Princess 'Yellow Butterfly' a miniature in bloom on a 12 inch plant. Go to the orchid register and you find that the parent orchids are Unknown as is the Originator. Maybe it was a stray pollination and someone noticed the miniature plant habit and easy growing properties. There might more success in finding some of the old timers in garden plant sources.

She and her grandparents lived a self sufficient lifestyle in the mountains. So , one had to learn many life skilsl. They pickle a lot and have great pickling containers. Also, I think her extended family and small village act as a unit . I see hints of large communal fields. I am amazed at how well designed the farm is for things like threshing, mills for grinding mung beans, piles of recycled wood, old brick. This farmstead has been a farmstead for generations. There is a video that she put out 2 years ago in response to some attacks that were pointed at her from some people that were jealous and incredulous, calling her a liar about her claim that she made the videos by herself. The letter she wrote paints a picture of a driven hardworking self educated artist using the tools that she had. She started out using her smart phone and then a DSLR camera but used her phone to edit..Her edits are none moving cuts like a still photograph. . proves this in the letter. At one point she broke down the added labor of walking to turn the camera on and off for 22,880 takes. She figured out she had walked around 260 kilometers. When I read that, I cracked up laughing at her humor. She comes up with themes and then studies the skills she does not have , sometimes for months before she makes a video, All this while making more videos. She now has a video assistant and an editing assistant because her health was suffering from all her work. She puts out about three short films a month sometimes one a week.. That takes an amazing amount of planning and work. Having done work in a film and being involved in photography and know the amount of work goes into the editing . I only have admiration for her.