Lin,
I posted a pic. under E strictum.
Merry Christmas!
dawn
flower coming
Hi Dawn! Merry Christmas to you too!
I thought E. strictum was a synonym of E. oxypetalum, but I see there is a separate entry in PF for E. strictum ... possibly an error, but I will let others more familiar than me figure that one out LOL. Anyway, your bloom photo's are really great!
Have a wonderful holiday!
Lin
Thanks Lin.
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to everyone here at DG!
OK.....I've been lurking here for awhile. This was given to me at a DG Swap Meeting. It was labeled Night Blooming Cereus, white. The plant is about a year old and now has three projectiles that are different from leaves forming from leaf edges. The three (look close) are also from the leaf edges.
I heard or read here somewhere that this plant liked to be in modestly acid medium.
I made very modest adjustments about Thanksgiving time. This plant is the first of it's type I have ever grown. Sure is an interesting beastie.
At one point I printed out about sixty or seventy pages on this type plant. So what do you folks think is going on right now with this plant?
It is just trying to climb. Remember they grew in trees.
Sandy
OK..........should it be tied up. Should it be repotted in the spring. God knows if they were tree crawlers they don't need much help from us. I have two similar size plants hanging outdoors in our growing season from a double Shephard's hook. They must come in where I live.
Depends on the growth. so do need to be tied up. do not over pot them, they do not need much soil-remember they grown in trees. I keep mine in pots sitting on the ground-they can get way to big to hand.
Sandy
I am very much a senior. In some manor or fashion I shall have to keep them trimmed so that I can move them in and out. If that can not be done I shall have to give up with this plant.
Do you have a lite window. Thy do not like to be in strong light.
Sandy
I have some that stay in the sunroom permanently. This one and also another one I have tied to a trellis. Since I have the room, I can have them this big, but they can be trimmed back and rooted very easily -- can't just let the cuttings go to waste! That's why I have 5 now from the mother plant. I am on my way to becoming an epi nut, just like you, Sandy! Hope that shoulder is doing better and you had a great Christmas and New Year. This weather here in FL is for the birds! Hope you are keeping warm.
Thanks, the shoulder is so so. Luckily I had my DB enclosed 3 sides and that has helped keep every thing warm, now I have to figure out how to cool it this summer. LOL
Geese............I guess I could possibly have flowering on the way. To answer a question. If I wanted to keep it inside I could build it a ten foot ladder inside my floor to ceiling windows that face Southeast. It is hanging there now and seems happy about eighteen inches inside the window.
I looked at the dating on this and other threads where in I posted more than once hoping to get picked up. Low and behold they all came alive within hours. Thank you all. I did not mean to pig out on the subject. LOL
No problem I was just bored and was looking for postings. I have not been on to much, surgery , PT and other stuff. Looking like I may need more surgery.
Sandy
I have an orchid cactus that's about 2 yrs. old, and still no signs of blooms. Any tips? I also have the nightblooming cactus that is trying to grow out the top of my window! How often do they need water?
Hope I didn't confuse you with my picture -- it was taken last summer. Mine started blooming in May and had four flushes until September. I don't follow any kind of watering schedule so I'm not the person to ask about that. Don't know about the blooming schedule. It depends on how old the plant is. I have had cuttings from an older plant that bloomed the next year, and then some that took longer. Sandy could tell you better about that. She has loads of them.
Here is a sight that has good info http://www.theamateursdigest.com/epis.htm
Mine get to hot last year , plus most of my cutting are young, plus do to poor heath did not give them the best care=no blooms.
Sandy