Night blooming cereus blooms in the daytime!!
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Comments (28)Hi all; I inherited my mother's night-blooming cereus, which was my grandmother's before that. It's bloomed the last 2 years, but no buds yet this year. However, the horrendous winter, lingering cold and late spring here in the NE meant that it didn't come out site until mode June or later. Still checking every day. Sigh. It does have some new leaves, which appear as tiny red leaves growing off the edge of an existing leaf - which is similar to the way it buds, but so far they all look like tiny red leaves wit yellow tips. I've been lightly feeding it with a very dilute solution of a water-sol fertilizer, 10-30-20 (dilute as those numbers seemed high.) Should I bump up the fertilizer? Or leave it alone? So, two questions: 1) Looks very healthy (besides the non-budding) but It does has some old leaves which have turned yellow or weirdly pink. Wondering if its ok ago trim them off..? And - 1) Is possible that the small new red leaves, growing from the margin of a green leaf, are the beginning of a bud? TIA. I do love this gangly plant, both for reminding me of my grandma's sunporch, and for its weird beauty....See MoreNight-blooming cereus...feed?
Comments (2)EPIPHYLLUM OXYPETALLUM Have you ever hear of these flowers blooming in the day time. Not only did one of the plants I have bloom but two of them on this one day. Each plant was in a different place in my yard ( one on front porch and one on the back. Call it a coincidence or not but it was the day before my husband had some serious surgery. I was just wondering if you had ever heard of this before. It has not happen since. They are back to blooming at night....See Morepreserving night blooming cereus blooms
Comments (2)My cereus bloomed Thursday night. I broke off one of the bloom before I went to bed and wrapped the stem in a wet paper towel, put it in a large zip lock bag and placed it in the fridge. It only lasted one day this way, but it was long enough to show my co-workers the elusive flower I always tell them about. How do you care for your NBC plant? I would love to hear. thanks Tina...See MoreNight Blooming Cereus Propogation
Comments (2)I would separate the stems, cut the bottoms at an angle so there is more area for roots to grow, just a half inch or so, let it callous, stick in soil and not water for about a month. Spray it a bit if it's really dry but root rot is your biggest danger here....See MoreSherry8aNorthAL
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