What a great Christmas cactus @pitter-patter, indeed a lovely colour!
Also great hearing about/seeing everyone’s tillandsias and haworthias. My haworthia is 6 years old now and I’ve only gotten two pups out of it — one didn’t make it, but the other one is growing well, photo below with fellow pup of Aloe x Zambezi in the background.
Here’s my tiny young tillandsia with streptocarpus ‘Polka-Dot Purple’ in the photo for scale (it’s so cheery and continually in flower, I admit I love photographing it). The streptocarpus seems happy in the bathroom and I keep the watering on the dry side, having also mixed together succulent and houseplant compost for its pot.
I've had this pair of Tillandsia for about 18 months and one is flowering today. It only makes this one flower and then very slowly dies. Hopefully it will produce a few new pups though and in three or four year's time I may see all the pups flower at once. In a decade or so it will be quite a display. It's a bit dark for a photo but if I leave it until tomorrow the flower might be wilting already.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
I have this big Rhipsalis paradoxa ssp minor hanging near the (east facing) window. And Philodendron micans on the corner of the mantelpiece nearest the window. I like the velvety leaves and it grows like the clappers.
"What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbour".
More tillandsia fun. These seedlings were 'sown' five months ago and are about 2-3mm long now with proper trichomes and even roots. The root is just for structure so I need to get some cork bark for them to attach to. Soil-less seedlings sound easy but they damp off just as easily as their earth-bound cousins. Pricking out, or whatever you'd call it with these, is also very delicate business.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
I'm currently bringing in loads of plants from the greenhouse to overwinter in the house and I'm already running out of space. This will be the first year since my oldest buy became mobile that I'll be risking plants on some child-accessible window sills. Wish them luck I'm about to post up a load of plants on freecycle I think as I've got far too many spares. To make matters worse I just bought this nice Monkey Tail cactus. I haven't really got space for it but it was too good to pass up. The longest tail is about 60cm long.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
This is my haworthia flower spike again, I measured it with a piece of string and it’s 5foot 8 and not finished growing. I was wondering how other people support the flower stems?
Also for 2 years my mistletoe cactus has flowered and made berries. Last years berries and this years are still on the the plant should I be removing them at some as they don’t seem to drop off?
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My house plant of the moment is this schlumbergera, the first one to flower out of two that I have.
Also for 2 years my mistletoe cactus has flowered and made berries. Last years berries and this years are still on the the plant should I be removing them at some as they don’t seem to drop off?
Failure is always an option.