Moontanman Posted August 5, 2013 Share Posted August 5, 2013 My cactus blooms this morning... 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daedalus Posted August 5, 2013 Share Posted August 5, 2013 That's awesome! Very beautiful. Thank you for sharing!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EdEarl Posted August 5, 2013 Share Posted August 5, 2013 What Daedalus said. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moontanman Posted August 5, 2013 Author Share Posted August 5, 2013 Lots of rain this year has allowed my cacti to do some spectacular blooming, I have at least a dozen cacti of various species that have been blooming well this year, I do love my cacti... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imatfaal Posted August 6, 2013 Share Posted August 6, 2013 How often do they bloom Moon? Is it annual or not? Whichever - they are great pictures . TFS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moontanman Posted August 6, 2013 Author Share Posted August 6, 2013 How often do they bloom Moon? Is it annual or not? Whichever - they are great pictures . TFS Cacti are perennial, they start blooming in the late spring and through the summer, the ones in the top pic bloom all summer with new blooms every few days but the blooms open up at night and close the next morning and drop off. Some of the other cacti bloom only once a year or so but the blooms stay open for several days. I used to hybridize cacti to get various colors and shapes of blooms and cacti, I am thinking of starting again... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imatfaal Posted August 7, 2013 Share Posted August 7, 2013 Cacti are perennial, they start blooming in the late spring and through the summer, the ones in the top pic bloom all summer with new blooms every few days but the blooms open up at night and close the next morning and drop off. Some of the other cacti bloom only once a year or so but the blooms stay open for several days. I used to hybridize cacti to get various colors and shapes of blooms and cacti, I am thinking of starting again... Ah - being a real city boy and knowing next to nothing about plants and horticulture I thought that cacti were irregular bloomers. Aren't some desert plants so infrequent and so fleeting that you are lucky to see two bloomings in a lifetime of study? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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