Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yee Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!

Excited yet, Anni??????

Maybe.

The holiday cactus are truly magical to watch. They really do follow the daylight and dark of the season. It's almost goose bumpy the way they know. I had a red and pink one but gave them to my dd that has a sunroom and they look much better at her house

Hey ... you did well. I don't get over to the blogs much but I saw this pop up on the list of Recent Threads and am glad I did. I do get how exciting it is when one of those CC blooms. That's the way I feel too. Now if I had only followed my and Sherry's advice I'd have lots of blooms this year on my four larger plants in the dining room. Too many distractions back when I needed to move them for their natural day/long night period. I have one little bloom on my plants upstairs but down in the garage are two containers of cuttings and they have produced numerous blooms that I don't see much being they are down there over-wintering and I'm up here over-wintering. What's wrong with this picture? Anyway, thanks for letting us know about your success.

Hey Vic, I had no idea what color this one was, but turns out to be really red. Very pretty. Good for you, you can visit your CC occasionally!

I was going to post to a thread on your article, Song, but here you are, so now you know!! Thanks for your help. I might have ignored it to death if you hadn't written

I have a Christmas cactus that won't be blooming for Christmas. In fact, it is looking really sick. I had it sitting in my kitchen window, maybe not a good place, and I think I may have been watering it too much. Time to give it some TLC. My son gave it to me a few years ago, part is white and part is red.

Can you put it in an unused room for awhile? Near a window where it will get only natural light and no water for a few weeks? It might force it into bud, why don't you try and see? I don't think it will hurt it.

I think mine stayed in the unused room for maybe about 6 or 7 weeks. Buds popped as soon as I brought it back to the kitchen.

Don't have an unused room, boy do I wish I did. I guess I could put it in my office by the window and do my computing in the dark. I'll refuse to give it any water even if it begs me. Can I take a cutting off of it and start a new plant? Oh how I wish I had taken better care of it. I have a friend living in Texas, they travel a lot and if they are going to be gone for a very long period of time she takes her CC with her. Well she did when they traveled by trailer. I guess she really didn't have to worry about it too much.

I don't know, Pegi. Some say water sparingly during the natural daylight time. Others say ignore. Mine was in there for several weeks and I never really thought about it until I knew my daughter was coming home and would need her room.

Good luck with yours. I'm sure you could take a cutting now and start over, I just started over with all those things that I wanted to save for outside next summer: coleus, for example.