they moved to Florida. With Epi's some times you have to wait, for the cuttings to harden some before they will ship them.
Epi's Currious Growths.
plantlady, the picture I posted with the large white flower is an epi oxy.
Oops ... I had the wrong name! It was Lily_love in Alabama who has the plant she thought was a Rhipsalis that seems to to be the Ric Rac Orchid Cactus.
Yep, I see yours is E. oxypetalum ... I have that one too but mine has never bloomed, or rather I have missed the blooms since it's a night bloomer! I have a really huge E. hookeri out in a corner of my backyard and a large E. oxy on my pool deck. I always seem to miss the blooms since they stay outside. I really need to pay more attention when I see buds! My E. hookeri I've had since the mid 1970's and just saw the blooms for the FIRST time a couple of months ago! But, it stays out in a corner of the backyard and I finally made a point to take a flashlight out each night to check it when I saw buds this fall!
I have a few noid Epi's that I received in trades a couple of years ago and they haven't bloomed yet. I think one has a pink flower and one maybe red so I look forward to hopefully getting blooms before too long!
Thanks Plantladylin for the Ric Rac I.D. those plants are so cute, and the blooms if we ever lucky enough to get them are so beautiful!
You are welcome ... I think Wren ID'd it before I did. They sure are neat plants aren't they?
I am watching my Ric Rac like a hawk! I am bound and determined NOT to miss the next time it blooms!
Look at all the aerial roots on my large Ric Rac. Not the prettiest plant but the flowers are awesome.
Here's the one bud it had last spring
Lin did you see the flower of my new epi?
Sandy the epi nut
and the bud the next day (after I missed the bloom because I didn't know it bloomed at night). It sure looks ugly, huh? I really thought bugs or something got it, LOL.
Oooh Sandy, that's a beauty! Does that one have a name? Is it a night bloomer or day bloomer? I'm really hoping some of my noids end up being daytime bloomers!
I t has no name but the flowers last several days. It was loaded with buds when I found it at a new (for me)nursery where I was looking for CC. I have a broken off piece do you want it? The bloom in the picture was on a piece that I cut off and took with me to Ga. It is still sitting in a glass of water.
Plantladylin, looks like that cactus is definately having a bad hair day. Would be kind of fun to stick a small witches hat in it next halloween don't ya think? :^)
Mine, the ric rac basket. Although young, it too is putting out alot of arearial roots. Yepper, a bad hair day, many a bad hair days. lol.
30 years ago I collected Dessert Cacti ... the thorny kind! I swore I would never own another thorny plant but even though the Ric Rac is thorny (be careful, those things hurt too!) I can't bear to get rid of it because it is "different" and the blooms are just so pretty! I read in PF that they are fragrant too so I can't wait to have mine bloom again!
I have another smaller Ric Rac that I got as a cutting in a trade here on DG ... I wonder when it will bloom.
That reddest one is like one I just get a couple months ago. Except mine is not reddest
That one with the real red foliage is Pseudorhipsalis ramulosa: http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/141226/ It gets redder in color the more sun it gets! I got a small cutting in trade and it was totally green. When I moved it to direct sun it turned red.
Nope that is not what mine is. Darn I thought I had a name for it. The leaves on mine are soft feeling, not as stiff as other epis.
I like the red ones. Very interesting looking. Sandy, your 'soft' epi. look like it's getting rootbound. Is it?
Probable I just bought it and have not had a chance to repot it., another find when I was looking for CC's. It was labeled as a Disc cactus(?)
And the leaf/stems are more flexible that my other epis .
Maybe a variety of Disocactus? http://www.desert-tropicals.com/Plants/Cactaceae/Disocactus.html
I think I've a basket of the same kind. Oooops, I need to be careful, or I too will be called Kim; the epi nut
LOL
Not unless you have over 200 epis and around 30 Schlumbergera, I have episitits really bad!!!!!LOL
Wren ... and there's NO CURE!
ha aha, funny! We are all epi nuts here, wren started it!
Hay I just helped feed it. LOL
LOL, I'm a long way from getting there, so there is hope for me? LOL
Nope, none of us have hopes, lol!!!!! We are lost in plant crazy world, hahahahah!
No it snicks up on you and you get weaker and weaker until you have to have more and more and MORE epis. LOL Then you have to build a green/shade house for them and then you have to build benches because all the store bought ones do not hold enough. Then you have more room so you can get MORE EPIS!!!!!!!
Sandi Wren you are really really the nutty one here for sure!
Oh boys! Sounds like too much fun to me!
Correction I a "perfectly insane" The rest of the world is just crazy!!!! LOL
HA HA HA! I may join you, can I???
Of course there is always room at the nut farm. Us nuts have the mostist fun.
I just love your philosophy! 'til we meet again. Have a blessed evening.
Kim
This nut is on the way to bed. I overdid it fighting with the bench. Shoulder is killing me and I need to finish that 3rd shelf tomorrow. Oh here is a view of my epi guard dog Andre-yell right-I was taking pictures and he started fussing until I took his picture. (He is nutty to!!!!)
Sandy the epi nut and Andre the demon child from h---l
well well well, Sandy and Andre are really two nuts and cute I must say. Nice cuttings missy!
Andre must be very special for not having knocked down all those fragile pots! Go Andre!!! Good night Sandi, good night, Clemen.
Thank you. Well at least one of us is cute and the brat is very rarely that serous . Everything has started to grown like mad sense I get them into the building. It was 85 degrees out there this afternoon. (DM is taking a bath so I have to stay up till she is finished)
Wow Sandy, you are so organized with all your Epi's. Did the the one's I sent you do well? Those that you traded me for are showing signs of really good growth. I need to trade for more. Not many DG's seem to have them for trade though. I love your dog. I have 4 small dogs and now that I know that my DH is going to Kuwait I think I would feel safer with a big dog like yours!!
Have a good evening...Annette
LOL! You guys are a RIOT! I love this forum!
plantlady, I missed mine the first time my epi oxy bloomed. I think I have a hookerii too (not sure) - flowers are small, white with pink in the middle and no fragrance? Leaves turn red if left out in the hot scorching sun?
Annette Yes they are doing great. I will have a few piece of the two I shown here when I repot them in fact I have apiece of the pink one that is 10(?) inches to big for a envelope so it will need to be cut in half-there is 3 plants in the pot and I have 2 pieces rooting-so they need to find a new home.
Andre is a Belgian Tervuren the are usually great guard dogs when the grown up-first 3 years are crazy and rough-they do not bite unless provoked. The short haired form the Malis are used as police dogs. But they are like living with a mischievous hyperactive intelligent 2 year old---AND THEY NEVER GROW UP!!!!!!! Andre is not much of a watchdog as he loves EVERYONE!!!!!! He counter surfs, trashcan dives, tears up paper and plastic and plays with this big ball in my green house unlesss I hide it!!!!!LOL But if you have a strong sense of humor, and are smarter then they are they are a great breed, I am living with my third one. Oh I have the sense of humor but I am begining to think that I am not smarter than he is.