Tropicals & Tender Perennials: It's an "Easter Cactus"......well not really, but, 1 by Clare_CA

Clare_CA wrote:
Another white one opened tonight, and it is the same as the other nonfragrant white one that is blooming now in another pot. This stem is marked 'Tropical Night,' but 'Tropical Night' is supposed to be red, I think. There are like a thousand or more named hybrids. I don't know how anyone keeps them straight.

Candy and/or Ursula, some of the stems that are flowering are looking terrible -- wrinkled, discolored, etc. It is almost like flowering is taxing the whole stem. Have you experienced this? I'm starting to cut back a little. I gave the cut pieces to my neighbor, but they looked so wrinkled that I was a little bit embarassed to give them to her like that. The container that they are in has plenty of moist soil. Maybe it is just because they are older stems.