Any Home Bakers Here?

[Aria]

The key to getting them to bloom is long hours of darkness and cool temperatures. Those that are kept in well lit heated rooms will not bloom.

My mother kept one in her bay window on the west side of the house with the curtain closed at night and it would bloom all winter long. The on she kept in her kitchen where it was almost always near 80°F and well lit for at least 16 hours a day, never bloomed.

I kept one facing a huge south facing window in my living room with a wood stove running all winter and it never bloomed. I moved it to an unlit, unheated room and it bloomed within a month. I keep one in a kitchen bay window on the north side of the house now. It blooms profusely at Thanksgiving and Easter with some blooms all winter and this year it even had one blossom in July.

We keep our heat at 68 degrees and sometime in the evenings we light our Woodstove. My 3 Violets are in the living room with
a lot of light all day. I have a timer on them...they go to bed when I do and light comes on when I wake up. I treat them like
I treat myself. AND they bloom and the leaves green leaves shine. They get LIGHT....no sun light. Aria

 

[R2elk]

We keep our heat at 68 degrees and sometime in the evenings we light our Woodstove. My 3 Violets are in the living room with
a lot of light all day. I have a timer on them...they go to bed when I do and light comes on when I wake up. I treat them like
I treat myself. AND they bloom and the leaves green leaves shine. They get LIGHT....no sun light. Aria

I was talking about the Christmas Cactus, not the violets.

 

[Aria]

I was talking about the Christmas Cactus, not the violets.

Sorry...the Christmas Cactus is in the SAME ROOM....next to a large window. I water her every 2 weeks and feed 1/8 tsp Miracle-gro in 2 quarts of water. I purchased it two years ago at a Grocery Store (Price Chopper)....and it blooms at least twice a year. Aria

 

[pennyJo1960]

Happy New year everyone.... knew from the start the cactus was doomed here like bull I have a brown thumb in the house making Pizza cut chorizo to go in it

 

[BullChick]

Does anyone have lettuce in their stores? We still don’t.

 

[R2elk]

Does anyone have lettuce in their stores? We still don’t.

The last time I was in a grocery store, they had lettuce just like they have always had lettuce. I haven't been to town for over a week so have no idea what is or is not available currently.

 

[ronott1]

Does anyone have lettuce in their stores? We still don’t.

We have a lot of Lettuce! The packages have new date and origin labels on them. The one I bought on Saturday was packed after Dec. 14, is good until next week and was packed in the Imperial Valley.

 

[BullChick]

Unless someone got some in, three stores didn’t have any kind of lettuce as of last week.

 

[N F C]

Unless someone got some in, three stores didn’t have any kind of lettuce as of last week.

That's too bad BC. Our stores have it now too.

 

[Aria]

We have a lot of Lettuce! The packages have new date and origin labels on them. The one I bought on Saturday was packed after Dec. 14, is good until next week and was packed in the Imperial Valley.

Yes we have Lettuce. Aria