Re: Christmas cactus

Mine do too. And even when I do all the "right things" to get them to
bloom by "Christmas"...they end up blooming around Thanksgiving, last
about 2-3 weeks, then poop out till the next year.

  

james singer <islandjim1@verizon.net> wrote:
  Interesting... because individually ours seem to be on "bloom all at 
once" schedules--masses of flowers all at once, which last for a couple 
of weeks, then no more blooms until next year. Must have something to 
do with indoor/outdoor influences.


On Mar 1, 2006, at 6:46 PM, Cathy Carpenter wrote:

> Mine (all indoor, of course!) has several flushes of blooms, from mid
> fall to mid spring. It is never out of bloom during that period, just
> periods of "more" and "less".
>
> Cathy, west central IL, z5b
>
> On Mar 1, 2006, at 11:56 AM, james singer wrote:
>
>> All of our zygos--maybe a dozen or more of them--are outdoor
>> plants. This year, they started blooming around Thanksgiving; two
>> of the last three, a pink and a white, are just now starting to
>> bloom. Amazing. I don't know when the last one will get around to it.
>>
>>
>> Island Jim
>> Southwest Florida
>> 27.0 N, 82.4 W
>> Hardiness Zone 10
>> Heat Zone 10
>> Minimum 30 F [-1 C]
>> Maximum 100 F [38 C]
>>
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Heat Zone 10
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