Looking good.

Finally my Schlumbergera has shown her very first bloom!




Here is a collage of the growth of this lovely flower for this year:



Now eagerly waiting for the other buds to bloom as well!

Beautiful!

What a lovely color. Very nice.

I have been on the CactusGuide.com forum for some help identifying a few of my older plants.
Those people really know their cactus.They identified the orchid cactus I inherited as
Genus= Disocactus&species=hybridus which basically is a Red Orchid Cactus. This is a shot of the bottom blooms that just opened.



The also identified my little one I call Petra's Pink as a True Christmas Cactus. There is quite a bit of confusion as to trying to identify these old plants. This I thought was a russelliana but in fact it could be a xbuckleyi. So, I am just going to sell it as a True Christmas Cactus. The first bloom is so tiny and the plant is so dainty compared to others, I still think it is a russelliana, but what do I know. Here is a shot of the first bloom on a l year old plant.




Hope you all enjoy your Christmas with those wonderful Cactus blooming and spreading their joy. Gosh , they make me so happy when I see a new bud....it is so rewarding when they show off your efforts by blooming at the right time.

Yes, that's a true Christmas Cactus. Sherry/Keystone helped with a very informative article about the Schlumbergera here on ATP and she is quite knowledgeable with IDs as are several others here as well.

I don't know about anyone else, but I do enjoy tossing the IDs around. That's the way I learn about some of the plants.

Anyway, glad you got ID confirmation. Good for you.

Love the blooms Jacquie!

Just thought I'd restate (for anyone new coming along) that Epiphyllum X ackermannii or 'Ackermannii' has been moved to the genus Disocactus.

SongofJoy said:Just thought I'd restate (for anyone new coming along) that Epiphyllum X ackermannii or 'Ackermannii' has been moved to the genus Disocactus.

I am so glad you reminded us. I remembered seeing that someplace and I could not remember where. Thank you.

I really am not sure how much good the actual ID of these plants do me other than they let me know that I am not misrepresenting the plants to anyone I sell to. I do not want to ever sell something that is not represented properly. This hobby of mine has become a very time consuming project. Especially when you get as particular as I have regarding IDing
specific plants. I do think when people trade it would be nice to know exactly what they are trading. The everyday person really does not care I guess. Only those of us who got carried away with our hobbies care. There are two questions I usually get from customers.
1. Can I put this in the sun ? 2. How often do I water this?? I know the answers to those.

I am off to get some Christmas Wrapping done. We closed the Tree Farm yesterday because we ran out of trees except for 2 already cut and business was very slow. We all have other things to do this week especially. Have a great day and thanks again for all your help.

Inquiring minds want to know. I love IDs.

Just wanted to share this beauty with you. It is one of my old Schllumbergera x buckleyi and
it has not stopped blooming since Sept. I love this plant. It and several like it that grew from it, as one of my best selling starter plants. It is a wonderful plant to have. The other two of the same plant are resting. It is time to take cuttings soon, so I feel sure it will stop blooming in a few weeks. I do not force any of my Holiday plants because I love enjoying them for six months or more out of the year. I just work around them with cuttings. LOL


Most of my hybrids that are called Zygocactus because of where I purchased them, are blooming also. The remind me of the little pink bunny that just keeps going and going and going.

How beautiful!

Excellent!

Thank you.

Very beautiful! Thanks for posting the photo! Need to see a happy plant today

I think I mentioned in here that I was playing around with cross pollination. Well I think I did a good job, what do you think? Three of my plants have berries. These two are the most loaded ones. I knocked off the berries off a few of them and my nieces boyfriend almost "dead headed" a few lol.

How long do I wait before I can harvest the seeds?!?

Cool, tiki, looks like an excellent job. Someone will come along who knows about growing them from seeds. I don't. I've always had cuttings.

I know it'll take a long time for the fruit to ripen, I'm just not sure how long. Seed starting is a whole other thing - All I know about starting from seed is that it will take many many many years before it blooms. Good thing I like the foliage.

I actually didn't expect so many to "take". I just squished together blooms and my kitty Delilah helped by rubbing her face on each bloom.

I love the foliage too and it will be fun to anticipate blooms.

I am not sure if I got this from this group or not, but does anyone remember the HappyHobbyhabit.blogspot.com/2010/10/01/schljmbergera-seed-pictorial.html ??????

I printed it out but I am not sure the above is correct. It is not too clear on the printout for some reason. It is s pictorial of Schlumbergera Seeds.

I know since I am 83, I am not sure I would live long enough to see one bloom.