Mid-Atlantic Gardening: Holiday Cacti general Discussionpart #4. , 0 by rouxcrew

rouxcrew wrote:
Hi everyone, I am dropping in at Gita's invitation, she has spoken so highly of y'all that I couldn't resist picking your brains. Let me say that I have not read all the posts back to the beginning yet, wow, so much great information and my little blonde brain is simply pinging. So if I am asking something that was covered in the previous pages please forgive me and point me in the right direction to find it.
I have had holiday cactus' for quite a few years, a deep scarlet one has been here for about 10 years. I lost several arms (?) last year because they were so heavy they just snapped. But my real question is one that no one has answered yet, why would one change flower color?
I have always coveted salmon or yellow but have never gotten one. Couple years ago I bought four sad HC's off a clearance rack, two were pale pink and two were white. Last year they bloomed around Christmas with those colors. This year, two have changed. My white is now a glorious deep yellow, and the pale pink is a deep salmon or orange color. They all live on my enclosed porch and have since I bought them. I repotted after I bought them, don't give them any special care, and have each one marked with a plant stake. Two are the same color as last year although interestingly both of those did not have many blooms. My red is still red and the one fuschia I have is the same as well.
Any ideas??? '

Here is the orange/pink one