Christmas Cactus in Bloom
11-18-2011, 07:12 AM
#32
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I think I killed mine ..sigh .. I left it outside all summer and it loved it, then one night it rained here and I forgot to bring it in and it looks like it got really cold that night and it looks like the cactus froze.. UGH !! so I guess I will start again and try try again .. LOL some of the plants survived but some look terrible (they are all in one pot !)
11-18-2011, 08:17 AM
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I got several of them from my mom and now one that never bloomed in about 4 years is getting blooms on it. I wonder if my Mom had something to do with it. she is in heaven now I know looking down for the past 2 1/2 weeks.
11-18-2011, 09:23 AM
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I like your x-mas cactus. It looks like you have two cactus, one pink and one red. I have a red one that is 3 ft across and one bloom has just opened. Mine is on the east side of apt., so only gets morning sun. I cut it back last spring, but it has a mind of it's own and is now as big as it was before I pruned it. Can not tell you how many starts I have given to friends whom viewed it.
11-18-2011, 09:58 AM
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I used to have some of them in almost every color I could find. That was in the 70s when house plants were everyone's passion it seemed. I had over 100 house plants but it got to be too much work and when my son was born, I got rid of all of them cause he was enough work!!
11-19-2011, 07:58 AM
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I also have many Christmas/Thanksgiving cactus plants......all in full bloom. I even have a gold one.
My mother in law had a huge Christmas Cactus (pink) in Washington state, when she passed away I brought part of it back to Ohio. By the time we had reached my home in North Dakota, it was looking pretty bad. I left it with my mother until the next summer. It had been nursed back to health by then. We brought it back to Ohio, I have lost count of all of the plants started from it over the years. Always a wonderful memory when I look at it.
My mother in law had a huge Christmas Cactus (pink) in Washington state, when she passed away I brought part of it back to Ohio. By the time we had reached my home in North Dakota, it was looking pretty bad. I left it with my mother until the next summer. It had been nursed back to health by then. We brought it back to Ohio, I have lost count of all of the plants started from it over the years. Always a wonderful memory when I look at it.
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