➡I accidentally bought Balut eggs: 2 live ducks! Now a Chat Thread!

[R2elk]

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No snow here but all outside flowers are dead. It is 4°F this morning.

 

[Redhead Rae]

No snow here but all outside flowers are dead. It is 4°F this morning.
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Christmas cactus!

 

[R2elk]

Christmas cactus!

Mine blooms around Thanksgiving. I noticed the stores here are no longer selling them as Christmas cacti. They have all switched to calling them zygocactus so they don't have to explain when they bloom at Thanksgiving instead of Christmas.

 

[Redhead Rae]

Mine blooms around Thanksgiving. I noticed the stores here are no longer selling them as Christmas cacti. They have all switched to calling them zygocactus so they don't have to explain when they bloom at Thanksgiving instead of Christmas.

My great grandmother had one that was about 6ft in diameter. My aunt had it for a long time but I think it died once when she was in the hospital. I think my parents still have a cutting from that plant though.

 

[R2elk]

My great grandmother had one that was about 6ft in diameter. My aunt had it for a long time but I think it died once when she was in the hospital. I think my parents still have a cutting from that plant though.

I had an aunt that let hers get so big that it split in half and died. I have started and given away so many new ones from mine that I have lost count. I currently have two from the original that I gave away several years ago. My brother got at least 6 from me this year, He killed at least one of them.. The latest one that I gave him is doing good.

 

[Sara L]

My mom had a Christmas cactus that she kept inside and babied for almost a decade and it refused to bloom. Finally she had enough and threw it outside to live or die as it chose. The dang thing bloomed that year and every year after. I think it needed the change in temperature from being outside.

 

[ackie]

omg this is crazy

 

[R2elk]

My mom had a Christmas cactus that she kept inside and babied for almost a decade and it refused to bloom. Finally she had enough and threw it outside to live or die as it chose. The dang thing bloomed that year and every year after. I think it needed the change in temperature from being outside.

The nurseries that sell the plants to the store, force them into blooming conditions by providing them with cool temperatures and short daylight hours.

I keep my plant in a kitchen bay window on the north side of the house that provides the cooler temperatures and shorter daylight hours it needs. It does a full bloom for Thanksgiving and Easter. It has had a few blooms on it from as early as September to as late as June.

If I keep one in the living room where the temperature is hotter and gets lots and lots of light, it will never bloom.

 

[Redhead Rae]

The nurseries that sell the plants to the store, force them into blooming conditions by providing them with cool temperatures and short daylight hours.

I keep my plant in a kitchen bay window on the north side of the house that provides the cooler temperatures and shorter daylight hours it needs. It does a full bloom for Thanksgiving and Easter. It has had a few blooms on it from as early as September to as late as June.

If I keep one in the living room where the temperature is hotter and gets lots and lots of light, it will never bloom.

My parents kept theirs on an unheated (except for solar gain from the windows) sun porch that faced south. It loved that.

 

[Kiki]

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