Texas Gardening: I am so EXCITED ! ! ! !, 1 by lbarden547

lbarden547 wrote:
Thank you for your comments. I haven't done a single thing to them, other than drain the standing water when I got them. The pink one and the one next to it got several hours of direct hot sun during the hottest part of the summer, (the others, though right next to them, have been in constant shade.), and I did give them some water almost every day as long as the temps were in the 3 digit range, and nights rarely went below the mid 80's. I think I made have fed them once, I honestly don't remember for sure. I'm not real faithful about things like that.

I'll check the bottoms of the pots when they finish blooming, until then I'm not about to move them for anything! Would hate to lose even one blossom! If roots are showing, I will move them up a size. I use Miracle Gro potting soil for all my potted plants, it seems to work the best for me. Will it be okay for these plants, too?

And I must confess, I went to Walmart the weekend between Christmas & New Years, hoping to find some Christmas Cactus on sale. Their whole plant area was cleaned out and bare already! Guess they were already making room for the spring plants. Wish I had gone the day after Christmas! Can you tell I am hooked on these now? ? ? ?

Here is a picture of a single blossom of the fuchsia one. It is the only one that had a name tag, it said it was "Calypso Red".