Re: Christmas cactus

Jim,
Mine bloom after I've given them a "climate change". Outside in early summer, back in the house before really cold outside temps. Sometimes a stretch of bright sunny winter days, followed by a hard freeze seems to do it. I suspect it has to do with temperature fluctuations.
Mine are white with magenta innards and a frilly dark hot red that's fading to pink with the last of this flush of bloom.
Want some starts? I have a couple of spent orchids I want to send you later this spring.
Judy B
z 6 Idaho, feeling like the flu is sneaking up on me, drat.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jesse Bell" <silverhawk@flash.net>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2006 11:30 AM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] 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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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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