Show your Holiday Cacti
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millwig
3 months agoGot this scrap from Burgess? It was advertised as a yellow TC. To my surprise I found a tiny bud. Pray it survives and we will see it is yellow.
socks
3 months agolast modified: 3 months agoYellow would be so pretty. I had no idea there was a yellow. Keep us posted on the bloom. I’d like to get a yellow.
Mine are old, outside all the time, got beat up by hail last winter, need repotting, suffered our drought, so I’m not sure about the coming bloom being much, but I do see one tiny bud. They are awkward to repot
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Comments (5)=( None here on Long Island. I went looking at my favorite local green houses, but only saw 2 at different places for about 30$. It was more than I wanted to pay, but both had woody growth below and fairly tight green growth above. I might still pop for one, but I was hoping to catch one on sale. I was also hoping to luck into a true christmas cactus or even an easter variety....See MoreWay better than holiday cacti, IMVHO
Comments (21)Babies would probably get away from any outside spot in your area during windy/rainy conditions. The reason I have so many is because winter didn't show up last time and there were thousands of babies all over my flower beds still alive. A normal winter would have killed them here. Saturated is a good word! When I realize how much direct sun these kinds of plants appreciate, I've given them as much as possible and last winters' blooms were like those in the pic below, regarding color. The blooms in the above pic were faded from lower light. K. houghtonii is a hybrid, the love child of K. delagoensis & daigremontiana. These plants are the mother lode and were about finished with very few petals left when I appropriated the top of a baby from a nearby crack in the parking lot and started what is now a collection with it, but this pic may help show that they were a much deeper, more saturated color. These things seem to like to grow in cracks. I saw this one in St. Augustine FL in May. Same hybrid....See MoreHappy Holidays Cacti
Comments (3)Socks: That's due to the cold that we got right at the end of October...Yellow TG and White TG cacti will semi revert to an original color....as white was made possible due to very light pink...and the yellow one was bred with a white......See MoreShow us your holiday wreath!
Comments (7)I have bronchitis, so am on 'light duty'. I'm sharing a pic from last year which shows the wreaths I made for my doors and windows from clearance wreaths from Joann Fabric, brass (real brass) clearance horns, ribbon that I ordered online, white pine cones from my yard, local grapevine that I wove in among the faux greenery, and I cut some faux white pine greenery from a garland and wired that in, to fill them out a bit more. Peeking out the door is Rooney on the left, and Ginger on the right; two of My3Dogs....See Moremillwig
3 months agomillwig
3 months ago?....has anyone had a new segment grow on a zygo that didn't have its points. I keep checking like it will come of age..
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BillMN-z-2-3-4
2 months agoArrived at home to find my Schlumbergera Truncata in pretty good shape for being in 511 mix for over 10 days without being watered. It got a good bottom soak before I left.
Just in time for TG! :^)
tannatonk23_fl_z9a
last monthI love this time of year. The holiday cactus never fail to impress me. First to bloom was the red followed by the white. Pink is always last to bloom here.
And i found this poinsietta ”Ice Crystal” at a holiday fair. The boy scouts were selling them.
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