I purchased a " Night Blooming Cereus" from Logee's a few years ago. At the time it grew well, no blooms, till something ate a large portion of it. I moved it into a pot then and this week I noticed my first bud. A few days later I glanced at the back of the pot and found two more buds. It was a total surprise I never noticed anything coming. Last night it was slowly opening so I set the alarm for 1:30 A.M. and it was open and the fragrance was heavenly!! I had intended to check again later in the night as it was not fully open but did not wake up. Two of the three buds opened last night. I hope they will reopen again tonight as I have read they may last 1-3 days. This plant is a keeper for sure.

So pretty... a neighbor of mine has one and I love when it blooms I would get one, but I'm trying to keep spikey things out my yard because of the baby... yours is lovely!

Thanks for checking out the photo! Actually this just looks spikey , there are no sharp edges. At least so far!!

At least yours bloomed. I've had an Epiphyllum for several years. Looks healthy, grows like a weed, even when I neglect it. Suppose to have beautiful red blooms. Has never bloomed once. Very depressing. :(((

alan

Alan try sticking some of those miracle gro fertilizer spikes in the pot or in the ground around it if it is not in a pot. I did that as well as regular miracle gro.

I've been using time released fertilizer, by oscomote. I'll try that though. I've put it on my list of things to pick up at the Wally world.

Alan

way to go sharon! you obviously did something right. : ) i gave up. tons of growth but now flowers.

I've never got a flower on mine either. I don't seem to have luck with any of the tropicals at all. About to give up on them after 20 or so years of trying.

Alan

you are the rose king!

Just happened across this posting again. My beautiful epiphyllum oxypetalum was fried by the night that hit 23 degrees. I do have a small one in the ground that lived and a cutting in a green house that I am hoping will survive. The big plant several weeks before the frost was looking terrible. When I tugged at it I found that grubs had eaten most of the roots so I think that the weak dying condition it was in was why the frost killed it. Linda

Oh my. Sounds like a horrid death. Nice try, however!

Thanks Aguane, it was sad!