Saturday, January 03, 2009

Christmas Cactus, part two

I mentioned before that I was pleased with my Christmas Cactus. I even showed a couple pictures of it with little buds. I am even more pleased with it now. The blooms remind me of dragons. I have a few pics, but they are kinda blurry.

This is one of the better ones.

Notice how the bloom folds back and looks like wings?

Here’s another shot.

As you can see, there are multiple blooms from this shot. We are having 3-4 bloom at any given time. We have had 6-8 full blooms so far, and another 15-20 on the way. Based on how these are lasting, I suspect we will have buds through the end of January; perhaps longer.

This last picture should give you an idea of how many buds we have.

Basically, every cactus growth has a bud at the end of it.