Mid-Atlantic Gardening: Holiday Cacti General Discussion Part #3, 1 by JBerger

JBerger wrote:
A quick good morning everyone. I really wanted to show you this and see if you have ever seen one before. I have not and I am thrilled to have found it. I have ignored it for months thinking it was an early bud, when in fact is is a seed pot on my oldest fuchsia/magenta Christmas Cactus. I am still trying to properly identify this plant. It looks so much like a S. orssichiana, yet it has some S. truncata (it blooms all the time so it is hard to decide is it a Thanksgiving or Christmas bloomer) and so I merely call it a Schlumbergera and that way I do not misrepresent it. The flowers are fucshia but on many places they are called magenta. Again, take your pick. I sell it as both. They can call it whatever they want. Not my decision. Sorry I am rambling because I am trying to think about the problem as i am writing. I do know commercial breeders can get a flowering plant from seed in 18 months if they have the ideal conditions. Which I Ain't got!

I am in the process of reading up on seed raising and what to do with the pods, when,how etc. I can use all the help I can get on this one gals, so if you know it, share it. Please.

Hope you all have a good day, so far we have had a positive replies to the question. That makes me happy because you can not get much more Mid Atlantic than I am. He He