I wanted to show my hoya friends my first ever orchid cactus bloom! I'm sooo excited! It's "Mondura Bay," and is on a cutting I just planted about two months ago! Go figger! Not sure if it is just opening or closing, as I was gone for the weekend, and came home to this. Thanks for letting me share!
Karen
One more pic!
That is so pretty. And off of a cutting, neat!
It is very pretty!!! Thanks for sharing. I have some NBC but they haven't bloomed. Just cuttings. Is NBC an orchid cactus?
Jeri
This message was edited Jun 11, 2007 6:44 AM
Way to go Karen. A very pretty bloom.
Patti
NBC..Night Blooming Cereus? Not an orchid cactus...but same family....I think the OC are Shlumbergias but I get them all mixed up.
Carol
Thanks Carol, my plant looks like that but the flower is different. If I ever get a flower. LOL!!!
Jeri
No, the orchid cactis are not schlums., those are the holiday cacti (xmas, thnksgiving, easter etc)
and I believe the couple different types that are called "night blooming cereus" (oxypetalum?) have all white flowers - this looks like disocactus ackermanni - (excuse the spelling), or something similar. There are alot of different types, different colors, it's more confusing than hoyas to get them all straight!
I got a few cuttings of these epiphytic cacti last year but they take so long to grow, and then when they do, you need lots of room as they are large and brittle plants, they need their space....
Karen that is so pretty. I received this cactis from my sisters accountant. I have no idea what it is but it sure is a beauty.
Tami, I cant tell for sure from your pic,but what oyu have looks like and echinopsis.
Also if i'm not mistaken i'm pretty sure that the NBC fits into the epiphyllum group of cactus which is what Karen has.
Schlums are an entirely different show!!!! and yes there is just as much if not more confusion going on over correctly named cactus as there is going on over mislabled hoyas. Now I grow them both, so what kind of H@#$ do you think i'm going through trying to get accurate names for all of my plants!!!
dmichael
David,
Do I have to wait for it to get done blooming befor I repot it? It has a baby and it is getting squished between the Mom and the side of the pot. It has like 20 more blooms to go. I also have a yellow one of these that I received from the same place.
What size pot is it in now?? I just got done potting up a lot of mine from 4" to 6" pots and they were in full bloom so no it wont hurt them to go ahead and do it now. Just dont over pot. If it's in a 4" I wouldnt go any higer than up to a 6" for now. In other words just go up to whatever the next size available pot is.
dmichael
This message was edited Jun 11, 2007 4:32 PM
yes, I believe the NBC are part of the epiphyllum group of cacti. I bought a full size red one last summer which is half dead now, I don't know how that happened... I have one oxypetalum (nbc) and 4 cuttings of various colors of other "epi's" - who knows what they are called, all I know are the colors. I will probably be an old old lady and won't even remember my OWN name by the time I see flowers on any of them!! I don't plan on getting any more epi's unless I run across another variety of the ric rac or "fishbone" cactus, I have two types of that one, it is so cool looking. And of course you gotta have all the holiday cacti - Easter, Xmas, Thanksgiving - love them.
But, my heart belongs to my hoyas. If I make room for any new plants, it will have to be more of them.
Gorgeous flower, Tami!
Karen
these are just a few of what I had blooming today. I took 4 pics early this morning then went out to run some errands and when I got back home the heat had pretty much parched the rest of what was open so I wasnt able to get pics of them.
Tami, this is an echinopsis bloom
here is another called ring nebula. This is a Schick hybrid and is one of many that I have that I got from the Huntington Botanical Gardens in CA.
this is temptress,also a Schick hybrid
I got this one from lowes last year. It wasnt in bloom but had a few buds on it. I bought it because it stood out above all of the other cactus on that display rack and it was the only one like it
Wow, beautiful, David!!
Karen
Oh I love that pink little beauty. Where in the heck is it's pot? My cacti is in a 4" pot right now, a plastic nursery pot. It looks as if you are using clay pots, I have plenty of those hanging around so I will change the living arrangements tomorrow.
The pot is there the bloom is just so big you cant see it!! Some of these echinopsis hybrids have flowers over 6" wide. I grow all of my cactus in clay pots.
I grow them in a store bought cactus mix to which I add a lot of perlite and builders sand. Once potted I cover the exposed soil surface with pea pebbles.
I took this pic not quite a month ago. This is just a small portion of my cactus collection. They are lined up on a full sized picnic table and since this pic was taken 2 more tables that size have been added end to end so I could get the rest of the plants out of the gh.
There are also quite a few very large hanging basket specimen plants scattered around as well. See hoyas arent my only passion!!
I think someone should ask the C&S forum these questions or Eddie at epiforums.com. People on the hoya forum get REAL bent when someone accidentally mislabels a hoya and so do the C&S people.
My understanding (and I don't claim to be an expert here either so I could be wrong, hence asking the other fourms.....) is that a Night Blooming Cereus is not an Epiphyllum at all. What most people refer to as NBC is Epiphyllum Oxypetelum.
There are many night blooming epis but as far as I know only one with any color (red) and that's S. 'connie mayer'
This message was edited Jun 12, 2007 9:18 AM
hmmm....Night Blooming Cereus may NOT be an epiphyllum - but it is called "Epiphyllum" Oxypetelum.
If that is the case, then you can see where the confusion comes in!
I believe that by some people, the term epiphyllum is used pretty loosely to describe epiphytic cacti in general. Probably more than half of the plants discussed regularly on Epiforums are not classified or grouped as epiphyllums, but they are epiphytic. There are always some people who are anal about names, and I admit that I like to know the correct names of mine, but I am not personally offended when someone gets it wrong. I do however hate the confusion that happens when there are too many trade names or nicknames for different plants - life would be alot easier if we all just stuck to the real latin names. And it would save some money for the people who buy the same plant more than once because some grower decided to come up with their own name for it.
This message was edited Jun 12, 2007 8:24 PM
