New Blooms – Christmas Cactus 12/3/18
Yesterday, there was one flower — beginning to look a bit weary around the edges and a lot of fat buds. Today the first flower is moving on, but three new ones are popping open.
I am sad that I can’t manage to keep a Poinsettia alive, but the Christmas Cactus makes up for it and the smaller one is just beginning to look as if it is thinking about setting buds. Funny that two essentially identical cactuses — they were both cuttings from the same friend — have such different blooming patterns.
Yesterday
TODAY
Looking good! 😃
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I think the other one is going to set buds soon, too. You know I haven’t had time to take my tree from the guest room and set it up in the living room. Pathetic.
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It will be ready when the time comes.
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I can’t keep poinsettias alive either.
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It must be the light. Either that or the hothouse where they are grown forces them and they are sickly. Maybe both?
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Hopefully both plants will be in bloom for Christmas/Hannukah? 😉
I have no idea how plants set their flowering times either – defies (my) logic. 🙂
I’m pretty sure though the weird weather does NOT help.
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Outdoor plants are usually predictable, but indoors? it’s all about light, the temperature of your house, the kind of pot they are in and when you water them … and luck! I’m amazed anything flowers in this dark house.
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funny, the difference a day can make
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I have my Poinsettia from last Christmas, I keep it in the kitchen where there is a lot of light but has grown taller rather than bushier so I may get another for the Christmas table.
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Lovely Marilyn, what a show.
Leslie
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A day can make such a grand difference 😀
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