Yeah, neither had I! It's my mother-in-law's, and she says it's been flowering for a while now (weeks? months?) Maybe if I make mine happy enough it'll flower too.
I've no idea, and neither has Wikipedia. This might be helpful: http://www.ubcbotanicalgarden.org/forums/showthread.php?t=10949 , though it seems to be a lot of guesswork and conjecture.
I asked her, and she had no idea. I can tell you that she keeps it on an enclosed porch that gets quite cold in the winter and quite hot in the summer, and it gets a lot of sun. Wikipedia says that the red tinge is probably from the plentiful sun, but it doesn't say what the right conditions are for producing flowers.
I have a Christmas cactus which seems pretty happy (it's tripled in size in the year I've had it), but hasn't flowered. Maybe it needs another year of rest.
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Date: 2010-12-30 04:18 pm (UTC)I've never seen that!
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Date: 2010-12-31 12:12 am (UTC)Maybe if I make mine happy enough it'll flower too.
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Date: 2010-12-31 05:11 am (UTC)When I give ours water, it just grows. Never seen flower buds.
Maybe if I fertilize it?
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Date: 2011-01-02 03:51 am (UTC), though it seems to be a lot of guesswork and conjecture.
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Date: 2011-01-02 02:28 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-02 03:48 am (UTC)I have a Christmas cactus which seems pretty happy (it's tripled in size in the year I've had it), but hasn't flowered. Maybe it needs another year of rest.
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Date: 2011-01-02 05:19 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-02 04:19 am (UTC)it's clearly broken.
oh, yah, you MUST know about this:
i found something fun! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heKK95DAKms&feature=channel also http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOLIB3cjFqw&feature=channel
as in, i'm sure you already DO :)
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Date: 2011-01-04 03:20 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-04 03:22 am (UTC)now i have a reason to ask for hiliters at work :)
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