Hey hey, so I have this cactus and I noticed that it's blooming yellow this year. Last year it was dark pink. I've never heard or seen something like this. Is it normal for the colour to change or is something wrong with it? Thanks!

Love the yellow! Looks healthy. But I do not think color change is possible.
Forgetting buying a different plant is possible, for me at least.

Possibly the plant was a bunch of cuttings.

Although temperature can cause a very slight change in coloration, you most likely had a pink and a yellow plant growing in the same pot.

Nurseries often propagate cuttings and at times more than one color of cactus is potted together.

What a fun bonus!

I can imagine if there is any chance of a loose piece, someone could throw it in the wrong pot or nailed, and mix colors unintentionally in production.
Look for pink buds.
Would be really fun to mix colors and bloom time, maybe.

Perekonnanimiz said: Hey hey, so I have this cactus and I noticed that it's blooming yellow this year. Last year it was dark pink. I've never heard or seen something like this. Is it normal for the colour to change or is something wrong with it? Thanks!

Very nice but that is a Thanksgiving cactus. To pointed leaf edges are the dead giveaway.
Christmas cactus leaves are scalloped/curved.

Perekonnanimiz said: Hey hey, so I have this cactus and I noticed that it's blooming yellow this year. Last year it was dark pink. I've never heard or seen something like this. Is it normal for the colour to change or is something wrong with it? Thanks!

interesting! I am no expert; but I do know that many plants that turn red or pink do so more dramatically when they are exposed to more light; did you perhaps move the plant into a place where it sees more sun?

chelseanolse said: interesting! I am no expert; but I do know that many plants that turn red or pink do so more dramatically when they are exposed to more light; did you perhaps move the plant into a place where it sees more sun?

Maybe the plant can change colors but the OP asked about an entirely different color of bloom. Please see all previous replies.

Calif_Sue said: Maybe the plant can change colors but the OP asked about an entirely different color of bloom. Please see all previous replies.

Hi Sue....I uh...I read the replies I can assure you of that....but thanks.....

Calif_Sue said:

actually, I'd love to understand what you mean when you are correcting my posting as not being responsive.....colors on flowers, stems, and foliage of many plants can change due to change in light conditions. Having a question about blooms changing color can absolutely have to do with light differences and has been documented in Christmas Cactuses in particular.

Perekonnanimiz said that originally the bloom color of their holiday cactus was dark pink but is now yellow, as shown in the photo provided.

Changes in temperature and light intensity can indeed cause a slight change in bloom color but not something as drastic as going from dark pink to pale golden-yellow. It's most likely that she originally had a pot with separate rooted plants of different colors.

I agree that the color of stems and leaves can change a lot, or not much on certain plants, and depending on many factors. Some of my succulents, holiday cacti included, can vary a lot. But I think color change in flowers is more limited and I agree, dark pink to yellow, no.

This is a simple one.
Schlumbergeras / Zygocacti / Xmas cacti/ Holiday cacti ,whatever you may call them.
White or yellow colors turn pink when temps are below 10c.
So you had that yellow flowering plant in a colder position last time and it went pink.
Now it's not so cold it's yellow again.

btw. Plural of Christmas cactus is Christmas cacti.

Thanks, friend! Cacti certainly is one correct spelling of the pluralized word for cactus. But just like if you stick a tomAYto seed in germinating conditions and it may grow a tomAHto, some cactuses are JUST as pokey as other cacti.

Given the hodge podge of a language English is (not to mention the influence of many Christmas celebrating botanical communities, I tend to find the pronunciation rule is actually a hold over and there is, in fact, NOT a proper pluralization between the two. In my experience, if it's pokey, don't poke it and if it carries two nearly identical monikers of which both are actually correct, it's just fine to happily trapse along without "correction"; even when that "correction" is couched in the ever so slightly veiled condescension that tends to follow "btw" with zero explanation, foundational grounds for the author's spelling bee superiority, authority supporting the assertion's soundness in principles of linguistics, etymology, or botanical nomenclature.

I do apologize for any excoriating tone whatsoever in this comment of mine; I simply have found over time that some folks can fall into the nasty and insulting habit of calling people out by harshly correcting the misses we all make instead of providing the unmatchable kindness of a well wrought, adequately researched topic of discussion to introduce.

I guess you could say Make Garden Org a pleasant forum again, because the off hand, passive, or sometimes even directly rude in a manner that discourages bussing plant friends.

But that's just me and I hardly know anything. Well, except the trouble with very hot steam, fairly low light, my ruby necklace melting into conditioner. And my realization I need another. Stetson out there.