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Feb 14, 2016 1:03 PM CST
Name: Thijs van Soest
Tempe, AZ (Zone 9b)
Region: Arizona Enjoys or suffers hot summers Cactus and Succulents Xeriscape Adeniums Hybridizer
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I think changes in growing conditions (temperature, level of light, soil conditions - presence or not of fertilizer, or too much fertilizer, plant maturity) are all factors in flower color.
These plants are definitely not 'cross contaminating' each other - that would only apply to any offspring grown from seed from any of your plants that might have gotten cross pollinated.

I see significant changes in flower color for a lot of my named Echinopsis hybrids to the point that some do not look a lot like the flowers are supposed to look (for example comparing the to collection photos from the Huntington ISI Schick hybrirds catalog) anymore. These plants tend to flower multiple times a year and can have distinctly different colors per flowering cycle. So this must be mostly environmental. I have to think something similar is happening to your plants.
I also have Adeniums show changes in color, e.g. white going more pink.
It is what it is!

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