PlantFiles Pictures: Night-blooming Cereus, Queen of the Night, Dutchman's Pipe Cactus (Epiphyllum ox, 1 by gracetech

gracetech wrote:
Hello Happenstance! Your plant and the blooms are incredible! I fell so in love with images of this flower that I\'ve become dedicated to trying to grow it. I bought 2 plants and they are lovely, but they turned out not to be the Queen. After 2 years they bloomed and had the same looking flower in pink, but very small. I\'ve bought 4 more plants, growing for 2+ years now and I have the first bud. It seems very tiny and unlikely to be a Queen, but we will see. This photo is about day 9. Can you tell me how long it tends to be from bud to bloom?

Also, your plant appears to bloom from the end of the leaves. Mine is budding from the side. Do you know if this is a different plant than yours?