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Are you uploading from a mobile platform? I always have problems with uploading photos on here from my phone!

Here's my Christmas Cactus right now. I can't get the photo uploader on here to work either... Now it won't even work on my laptop, so anyway, here's a link to my photo!

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My collection of true christmas cactus, all from different places and different histories! I only have a very small pot of cuttings that are from my great grandma. I wasn't able to as many cuttings as I would like to have. The mother plant is very small and my great grandma about had a heart attack from every cutting I took. I only took 3 clippings and all of them rooted!

Mine is still a small plant. I only got the cuttings this summer. It was a rough summer.

Nice plants Grant, nice to see you again, the only other teen I know on here! Didn't you get your hands on variegated cuttings? I was so jealous when I saw them, I would give up my second largest CC for a healthy 2" plant!

Thanks Ramel for the ID. When I bought the plant it was from a greenhouse and was labelled a Christmas cactus. I just looked up the difference and I see that you are right. Very close, though. I suppose that's why they're often misidentified at garden centres!

Oxford, they sell the Tgiving cactuses as CC because they bloom right before the winter solstice so they can sell plants in bloom for the commercialized holiday.

CC doesn't bloom until after Christmas, so they can't capitalize on the blooms :)

Wish I still had mine.. Was a Thanksgiving cactus and was fairly big. Now I only get to see it every other weekend or so. I gave it to my grandma a while back as I thought I had no good space for it. Yet, I do now.

That thing is in flower 24/7 I havent been there once without it in bloom or with flower buds... Must be a bit confused.

Planning on getting another small one come Christmas time

CC flower randomly for me, the season is for me generally from November to May, a few flowers have been spotted in June, none from July-October

I have always read that in order for these seasonal "holiday" cacti to bloom they need to be in a room (or outside) without artificial light at night. Does anyone have an experience with their holiday cactus blooming even in a room where lights are sometimes on at night? Right now I have a very small place where there is basically only one room... So there's kind of no option as to where I can put it! Alas!

In my house we have a room where the lights are not on at night, and as you can see my large one is still outside

You can set an alarm and put it in a box or closet every day. It also has to do with a temperature drop I believe. Perhaps leaving it in a somewhat lit garage for a little while, while the weather is cooling down outside.

some people have said "throw it in a closet for a week" but I think that's plant abuse.

Good idea! I could put it in the closet in the evening after the sun sets, when I am working with the lights on .. Then take it out when I get up in the morning... Thanks!

These Schlumbergera truncata are just in from their summer outside and raring to go.

You are across the pond, my TCs have not even started budding yet.....

I'm wondering if this new growth I'm seeing is actually buds. How can you tell the difference between emerging buds and emerging leaves?

It is so exciting to see the growth

Okay, mine must just be a bit drought stressed maybe...either that or they were round and I didn't notice lol. They are coloring up though and it is similar to what the flower color will be. But I have lights on for longer than the sun is out so it wouldn't make sense for them to bloom.

I don't have any lights and have not put my plants into darkness. They just came in from the garden in bud. I can claim no credit for it at all.

Your nights are already getting to be pretty long. And the natural decline in temperature set them off!

will you post pictures when they open?

you sure they aren't the earlier "Thanksgiving" Cactus? With spikes along the leaves instead of scallops?

laticauda - were you asking me? I am aware they're not Christmas Cacti. I wrote that these are Schlumergera truncata which is the species you know as Thanksgiving Cactus. Rhamel mentioned that his/her TCs aren't budding yet. Nights are about 11 1/2 hours here at the moment with temps in the 50s.

I'm seeing hints of budding just today, will try to take photo later, still in school

I didnt put you and that other post together as the same person.

Here's mine! Only had it for a few months - cuttings came unexpectedly from my tailor:

It looks a little bit....angry? Upset? Maybe upset is a better word? Lol. Have you figured out what's wrong with it? Not enough LF sphagnum in your mix?

I think it's doing really well now! Maybe it's an angry looking species? ^_^

The mother plant was very old, quite large, and many branches showed corking. There is some new growth, which makes me happy.

Ewwmayo, you have a Thanksgiving Cactus there :-)

My CC is still out on the back deck, growing huge and lush and loving the weather. Nights are dipping into the 50F's now, but it'll probably be a month before I need to wrestle it back indoors. I've never done any sort of treatment, and even during years when it never was exposed to cool temperatures, it has always bloomed right on schedule.

Josh

Josh - Mine doesn't count at all? =( I was thinking it's actually a hybrid, hence the slightly toothy margins. Yours looks fantastic!

Thanks!

Yours counts! I just thought perhaps you were posting it thinking it was a Christmas Cactus. I'm not sure if you have a hybrid, or just a cultivar.

CC's are actually hybrids, too, though.

Josh

There's a building down the street from my house that has big blue letters on a white background "Schlumberger" on it...wait, maybe it was all "e"s. If I drive past it, I'll take a picture for you guys. Most people don't understand my geek sense of humor lol.

I kind of wanted to take a picture, paint in an "a" at the end and sent it to the person I got my Schlums from.

If my barely growing cuttings ever grow into a big plant, I'll try get you some clippings, ew!

I got this from my mom as we were preparing to sell the homestead. Not sure of the age but it's over 3 feet across. I know it desperately needs repotting as its never been repotted in the 15 or so years she's had it, but that likely will involve scaffolding LOL. Half of me says it must be done, but the other half says its doing just fine. That's a five gallon pail its sitting on.

tj