Rhipsalis are from tropical rainforest. Moist is their milieu, but dryer than natural conditions are often necessary to prevent root rot when using potting soil &/or plastic pots.
Anyone who doesn't happen to live in a tropical rainforest, and then puts an plant in a pot, is always starting at a disadvantage when growing plants from there, though in FL you've got the best place to tease everyone - and yourself! Lin, your plants are amazing, in number and appearance!
Just speaking philosophically going forward here, about no particular plant, just the word tolerating (and not saying your particular copy of this plant isn't thriving just because you chose to use the word tolerating)... just curious about the internal discussions people have with self.
If plants are only tolerating, there's room for improvement. If only that was as easy to do as to say. I can't say that all of my plants are thriving, and some that I think are great may not be, should I ever see a 'real one' in a natural setting, possibly some denial about what I really see sometimes, what I think I know about what I see, overly optimistic optimism, perfectly human things to do. I still kill a plant sometimes, though luckily so much more rarely. But I usually still think they look like they're going to pull through until, u know, that day when you admit it's dead. Does anyone else struggle with this? Wondering if they are always being as internally honest as they think they are?
And something as simple as "very dry" leaves a lot of room for interpretation. If 10 people have a button to push when it becomes "very dry," I bet they get pushed at 10 diff times.
