Mid-Atlantic Gardening: HOLIDAY CACTUS GENERAL DISCUSSION - PART #6, 3 by Gitagal

Gitagal wrote:
Hi Everyone---

First of all--JB asked me to say "HI" to all the MAF Folks. SO! "HI!!!"..
She now resides on the ATP site and will not be posting any more here on DG.
You can go there--chat with her--and ask her any questions re CC's.

We have been communicating a little bit by D-mails. She really loves me--?????
She has been trying really hard to win me over and to go "over there"....
She sent me some links right to her page--and I do get their Newsletter.
I have communicated with her on ATP--but have not gone any further.
It is very different....not familiar enough to cruise around there...but, I DO find it
a lot more colorful, in many ways, than DG. No annual fee either.
Mostly--I think I could contribute a lot of images to their "Plant Files" as I have a lot of
weird plants I am/have been growing. This would earn me "acorns"--which are like
a "monetary" value that you can exchange for other things....

This is a good time of year to resurrect this Thread. CC's are now blooming! Mine are!

Because, this time of year, I find it very hard to locate all my plants indoors so they
will live happily all through winter--it has been hard to find locations for them all.
All my now-blooming (medium) CC's are, once again, on my kitchen counter under
the two task lights. They all seem to like it there.

All the 6 CC's JB sent me (in that BIG box) have, by now, doubled in size and are blooming.
Also--several of my own grown-from-sections CC's are now in bloom.
It is SOOO nice to, finally, see the colors so I can tag them. ...:o)

My NEW favorite ones are a wonderfully, gentle pink kissed with white, that I grew from
broken off sections gathered at Lowes a couple of years ago. Will post pictures!

Please join in here, once again, and share all things that have to do with CC's.
Each of us have, by now, have enough information gleaned from JB's many years of tutoring us
so we can share our successes and failures here once again.
I will,gladly, share all I have learned, and have had success with,to help you out.

Here are pictures of my NOW blooming CC's.

1--My favorite pink ones. SO gentle--the blooms lasted 2 weeks!
2--Close up of one of the blooms of the pink one. From Lowes.
3--JB's "White Christmas" and her "Orange Christmas"--close-up.
4--"White Christmas" whole
5--Close-up of "White Christmas" bloom.

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