I'm sometimes a very bad plant caretaker! My Ric Rac cactus looks pretty bad ... it was getting way too much direct sun which faded it out and it's been in the same pot for years; there's no soil left in the pot, only roots! I really need to get it into a new container with some good compost and maybe next year it will flourish. It blooms for me only once a year, in the April/May timeframe.