There were recent notable discoveries in our house. My wife has had a Christmas cactus over her back kitchen window for years. It had never bloomed but it did in the last week for the first time. She also placed some broken tentacles from a “monster” cactus I am now keeping in my office and today it bloomed. It has a pink flower almost five inches wide and five inches around. We have had the “monster” cactus bloom before but this is the first time it budded in our house.
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I have been watching the “monster” cactus hanging outside from a tree and its four buds. Two are almost open. They should make it before it gets too cold for the plant and we have to bring it in for the season. It really does not like the cold too much. Two buds that are just emerging will probably not make it but the other two will. I am absolutely thrilled we will have flowers from the plant. When we bought the plants months ago it had multiple flowers. They were gigantic several inches wide and tall. These probably won’t be that big. I think my wife bought the plant to spoof me. Its tentacles hanging from the tree are several feet long. I have never seen anything like it before.
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The greatest discovery I made today was my “monster” cactus hanging from a tree outside had two buds near the ground. Its tentacles are several inches wide and over three feet long. When my wife bought the cactus months ago, it was flowering. I have been examining the gigantic cactus every day. Each day the two buds grow larger. I don’t think these flowers will be as large as the ones last spring, that were four or five inches wide and three or four inches long. And four days later I spotted two more buds, this time near the top of it just emerging. It is going to be a race to fall. And the colder weather. Let us see how many flowers will emerge before we have to bring the cactus in the house?
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Two days ago my “monster” cactus bloomed outside. It has tentacles that are four or five feet hanging over the side of the pot. We bought it with several two buds on it and with two flowers. We knew it liked the spot we put it in outside for the two buds did not dry up. When it flowered, again, the entire width of the unfurled pink petals was five inches. Inside, one single white flower protruded–God’s handiwork! I never saw such a gigantic pink flower on a cactus.
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They were calling for frost overnight. It was the coldest day in ten days this spring–top was the fifties. I wrapped up our “monster” cactus in paper. It took me fifteen minutes and also parked our Gerbera daisy temporarily in the garage. I was not taking any chances with both plants. It was abnormally cold today and I wanted spring to come back.
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We have a “monster” and an unusual cactus. It has half a dozen tentacles on it four feet long and three and four inches wide. We bought it at the local Amish store. We had to transport it very carefully for we did not want to break off any of its tentacles. I have never seen one like this one. We found a good spot for it outside. It was flowering when we bought it. It had gigantic pink flowers and it must like where it is for the last two buds are still developing, which is a good sign.
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