I just discovered this video, six years later and after the awful pandemic. I hope you and your lovely plants are well. My cacti are the Thanksgiving ones. I didn't know there was such a difference, so thank you! One bloomed right around Thanksgiving, and the other not until just before Christmas, but they are the same species, just different colors. They are blooming aleady this year. Interestingly enough, they also bloomed at Easter time. I live in Northern CO, so our weather is a little wonky. They are near a window that is North facing.
Thats fantastic news your Thanksgiving cacti are blooming already, I bet they are beautiful, and these cacti grow well in north facing windows, I have one of my Thanksgiving cactus that sometimes re blooms in the Easter, I think it wants to be an Easter cactus too haha, thanks so much for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a wonderful Tuesday XXXX
I have one of the thanksgiving variety as well, bought it as a christmas cactus after the holiday on sale , and never disappointed by her beautiful flowers. it normally blooms every three to four months, except for this year, she seems to do best in a west/ southwestern window, as we do not have north facing windows , but that would be a lovely place for one and bright light as well?
@@pjfountaine7755 Thats wonderful your Thanksgiving cactus produces beautiful blooms for you, yes these cacti do well in a west or southwest position as well as a north window too, thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching and have a fantastic Sunday XXXX
Here in America Thanksgiving Cactus are sold as Christmas Cactus also. True Christmas Cactus are readily available in stores here. You either have to get a cutting from someone, get it handed down to you from family, or be lucky enough to come across one for sale. From what I've heard the true Christmas Cactus isn't sold readily because it's not as reliable bloomer as Thanksgiving Cactus. I was lucky enough to get some cuttings of a true Christmas Cactus this Spring. It's grown so much and I look forward to it blooming. Thanks for a great education video. There's a lot of people here in America that need to know the difference. Here's to a lovely gardening week ahead!
grow.eat.create.love I received a cutting of a Christmas cactus from someone who had a plant so old and big, the inner main parts of the plants looked like branches on a tree, with the peddles growing from them.
Thanks so much for your wonderful comment :-) its so strange how its so difficult to find Christmas cactus now compared to Thanksgiving cactus, and I think that you are right that it may be down to the fact that its easier to get Thanksgiving cacti to bloom,thats brilliant news that you were gifted some cuttings of Christmas Cactus and I bet you are looking forward to seeing the blooms in the future too :-) thanks a million for watching and sending you an abundance of love and happiness and tons of happy growing and Plant Power from right across the Emerald Isle for a fantastic Tuesday today XXXXX
I believe true Christmas cactus aren’t readily available, commercially, because they’re very fragile, and damage during shipping. I love these, and I would love to get a cutting of a Christmas cactus, like the ones Granny had!
It was very helpful to have them side by side. I could see the difference in the leaves even before you started explaining it. Thanks for teaching me this. I love to learn new things, and I know one more thing than I did when I woke up this morning.
haha! Jim :-) I learn sooooooo much from your INCREDIBLE channel too :-) thanks a million for your wonderful comment and for watching Jim and sending you an abundance of love and happiness from right across the Emerald Isle for a fantastic Tuesday today XXXXX
Hi Lynn, I went to the store just this evening and of course we checked out the garden section. I found 3 Easter cactus... I just couldnt believe it. Just wanted to share this because of this video, I knew exactly what it was. Thanks so much! Sally
Thats brilliant news Sally :-) so happy that you found 3 Easter cacti and that you were able to identify them because of my video :-) thanks so much for your fantastic comment and for watching and sending you an abundance of love and happiness from right across the emerald Isle for a wonderful Wednesday ahead XXXX
My grandma gave me an Easter cactus yesterday and I've been trying to figure out what it was called so I can properly take care of it. Thanks for the helpful video!
thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending you an abundance of love and PLANT POWER from across the Emerald isle for a wonderful Wednesday today XXXXX
Christmas and Thanksgiving cactus really are amazing plants and so happy that these cacti are one of your favourites too Sylvia :-D thanks so much for your wonderful comments and support and for watching, and Hans and I are sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER to Malta for a fantastic afternoon XXXX
So I try to keep in mind that from pointy to round it's Thanksgiving > Christmas > Easter. And I know now where I can look it up in case I forget it. Thank you, Lyn! :D
haha! it can be so confusing with all the different types of these Cacti and the Easter and Christmas Cactus look so alike when out of flower too :-) thanks a million for your brilliant comments and for watching an sending you tons of love and heaps of happiness and happy growing from right across the emerald Isle for a MAGNIFICENT Friday and weekend ahead XXXX
Thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending you an abundance of love and heaps of happiness from right across the Emerald Isle for a brilliant day today XXXX
Always thought I had a Christmas cactus as that is what it was sold as. Now I think it is a thanksgiving cactus. It is in full bloom now. Wish I could show a picture. Thank you for your video.
thanks so much for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a terrific Tuesday XXXX
Thanks so much Janet for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending you an abundance of love and heaps of happiness from right across the Emerald Isle for a fantastic Sunday ahead XXXXX
Thanks so much Andrew for your wonderful comment :-) I bet your Grandmothers Cacti are BEAUTIFUL :-) thanks a million for watching and sending you an abundance of love and happiness and tons of happy growing rom right across the Emerald Isle for a fantastic Tuesday today XXXXX
About four or five winters ago i bought was sold as a Christmas cactus, and she normally blooms up to four times a year, except for this year she has not bloomed but once, she is in beautiful bloom now, and she is definitely the truncata aka thanksgiving variety and i am glad to have her in my collection. I never had success with a gifted christmas cactus before, and now i realize they are not the same.
Thats awesome your Thanksgiving cactus blooms up to four times a year, and is in beautiful bloom now, the flowers on these beauties really are so stunning, thanks so much for your wonderful comments and support and for watching, and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a super Sunday XXXX
Hi Lyn your timing of this video was perfect! Today would have been Gran's 84th birthday and today you uploaded a video of her fav house plant!!! So bless you xxxxxxxx Its brilliant that you have so many varieties to show people the difference and well done for getting a seed pod. You are so clever at this!! Lots of love Paula xxxxxx
WOW! Paula that is INCREDIBLE that it would have been your Gran's 84th Birthday yesterday :-) thats AMAZING and the Christmas cactus cuttings from your Grans Cactus are THRIVING with lots of new growth and leaves on them, and the Easter Cactus cuttings from your Aunts Cactus has lots of new growth on them too :-) that truly is perfect timing indeed :-) thanks a million for your wonderful comment and for watching Sis and sending you and Tom and ADORABLE Mabel and Monty an abundance of love and happiness from right across the Emerald Isle to Swindon for a fantastic Tuesday today XXXXX
Very nice! I was aware there were differences, but had them all confused! You are wonderful! I hope your autumn is a wonderful time of year for you as it is for me! Hugs to you from Texas!
Thanks so much Pam for your wonderful comment :-) it can get so confusing with all the different types of these cacti haha! :-) I LOVE the Autumn too, its so magical with all the beautiful leaves changing color and there is always a wonderful fresh smell of earth in the air :-) thanks a million for watching and sending you an abundance of love and happiness and heaps of Cactus power from right across the Emerald Isle to Texas for a fantastic Tuesday today XXXXX
Thanks for showing the difference. I'm fairly certain I have a Christmas and Thanksgiving cactus in the same pot (I'll have to check when I wake up) but I cross pollinated them and I picked the fruit yesterday. Now all I have to do is revisit your harvesting video. You have so much knowledge to share and I appreciate it so much since my dad is no longer here to answer all my questions. Btw, my dad had a small nusery when I was a kid and he would repurpose 2 liter plastic coke bottles for his plants esp when rooting. He'd cut the bottoms out and place the bottle over the cuttings to have a terrarium-like affect and bottles that had plastic containers connected to the bottom for support would get used for other things such as planting seed. Recycling is wonderful for our planet and our wallets! 😃🌸💕
Congratulations on the seed and the successful pollination :-D and thats so wonderful to hear about your late Father and the tips he used for rooting with the plastic bottles
Thanks so much Bob for your wonderful comment :-) I am really pleased to see a seed pod, its going to be incredible to grow these beauties from seeds :-) thanks a million for watching and sending you and your wonderful Bride Melody an abundance of love and happiness from right across the Emerald Isle for a fantastic Tuesday today XXXXX
you right the root of Christmas cactus was small it is need to be more in the water I will try again be sure Lynn 😜 thanks for helping xoxo have a lovely weekend
Thanks so much Sally for your wonderful comment :-) I bet all your Thanksgiving cacti are all BEAUTIFUL :-) thanks a million for watching and sending you an abundance of love and happiness from right across the Emerald Isle for a fantastic Tuesday today XXXXX
haha! Patrick you are a Star :-) thanks a million for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending you an abundance of love and tons of happiness and happy growing from right across the Emerald Isle for a FANTASTIC evening ahead XXXXX
So happy that I made you smile Kristen :-D and thank you so much for your wonderful comment and for watching, sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a wonderful day XXXX
Thanks a million Nancy :-) it gets so confusing with all the different Christmas cacti and they all look so similar when out of flower especially the Easter Cactus and the Christmas cactus :-) thanks so much for watching and sending heaps of love and tons of Plant power to you from Ireland for a fantastic Tuesday XXXXXX
Thank you so much for clarifying this! I've been trying for so long to sort it out myself but never really got it right! I now know what to look for when I'm shopping for an Easter cactus 💚
Thanks so much Josefin for your fantastic comment and so happy to hear that you found the video helpful, it can be so confusing when it comes to the Christmas and Thanksgiving cacti :-) thanks a million for watching and sending you an abundance of love and happiness from right across the Emerald Isle for a wonderful Sunday XXXX
Thanks so much Gale for your wonderful comment :-) I bet your Christmas Cactus is absolutely BEAUTIFUL with all of its red flowers :-) thanks a million for watching and sending you an abundance of love and happiness from right across the Emerald Isle for a fantastic Tuesday today XXXXX
Thanks so much Rachel for your wonderful comment :-) I made a video last year like this but the Christmas cutting that my friend gave me turned out to be an Easter Cactus cutting haha! so I had to make the video again LOL! thanks a million for watching and sending you an abundance of love and happiness and tons of Plant Power from Waterford to Wexford for a BRILLIANT Tuesday ahead today XXXXX
Thank you so much Lyn. I know, you had already made a video to explain the difference but this video makes it even more clear. This time, I'll try to remember forever 😉 and tomorrow morning I'll take a look on the leaves and make a label. It's time to finally know which one is a Thanksgiving - Christmas or Easter cactus. Have a nice week and happy growing.
Thanks so much for your wonderful comment :-) I bet your cacti are beautiful :-) thanks a million for watching and sending you an abundance of love and happiness and tons of Plant Power from right across the Emerald Isle for a fantastic Tuesday ahead today XXXX
thanks so much Marissa for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER from across the Emerald Isle XXXXX
So happy you love my voice and the video and thanks so much for your wonderful comments and for watching and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER from across the Emerald Isle XXXXX
I got a couple leaf's from a party i attended after a lady brought in a big plant..By the time i got home only one leaf survived it,so i have one leaf no rounded edges , fits the description of a thanksgiving cactus...Good video, i always wondered what the difference was..thank you for sharing...I luv watching all your video's, you are very interesting and know alot about plants...I'll be lucky to have one leaf propagate , i layed it over in some moist potting soil, no roots yet...I might just have to go out and buy another one..But now i will be able to tell the difference...great video's...
Thanks a million Sophi for your fantastic comment :-) so happy you found the video helpful and thats brilliant that you have got a cutting of one of the leaves of a Thanksgiving cactus, I will be keeping my fingers crossed that it roots for you and if not then I definitely think you should treat yourself to another one :-) thanks so much for watching and sending you an abundance of love and happy growing from right across the Emerald Isle for a FANTASTIC Sunday ahead XXXXX
Hi Lynn, I would love a true Christmas Cactus, and an Easter Cactus. 2 years ago I bought what I thought were 2 Easter Cacti (round about Mothers Day UK) When I got them home although they were in flower, I discovered that actually I had bought what I now know to be Thanksgiving Cacti!! Managed to reflower them both too, which is a first, and my red one has just started to form buds again. Hope I can bloom the pink one too again. I have trouble finding the Easter Cactus as I would love the Orange one!! But given the above, seems most Garden Centres don't know the difference!! Your videos are really informative. Good Luck with the New Greenhouse when you get it, and hope all your wacky plants survive in the Polytunnel this winter. Wish I had more windowsills, but 9 orchids, the mother of all spider plants, plus detached pups, and 2 thanksgiving Cacti is to many already. All my orchids bar 2 are mini ones, and I still run-out of space!!
Thanks a million for your really wonderful comment :-D I bet your Thanksgiving cacti are absolutely BEAUTIFUL :-D and LOL! at running out of space OMG we know the feeling, we are hoping that the plants get though their first Winter here in the Polytunnel and we are nervous about it until we can get a real greenhouse sorted out, as we have no room at all left the new house haha :-D thanks so much for watching and sending an abundance of love and happiness and PLANT POWER from Belfast and have a TERRIFIC Thursday today XXXXX
Desert Plants of Avalon Have just purchased an gorgeous Purple Thanksgiving Cactus! Oooops, Birthday Present to myself. No luck with an Easter one yet, and I Am drawn to your Epiphylum Orchid Cactus! Oh dear 😱 think I'm addicted to Epiphytes!! They're the most success I've ever had with house plants. Just put up a video on my channel this morning. HappyPhalOrchid. Need to get my filming and editing better, but it'll do for now. Sandbags looking good xx
thanks so much Lucy for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending you an abundance of love and happiness and PLANT POWER from right across the Emerald Isle XXXX
Thanks a million Kaitlyn for your wonderful comment :-) I am looking forward to seeing the flowers on my Thanksgiving cacti and Christmas cacti this year :-) thanks so much for watching Sis and me and Sean are sending you a MASSIVE hug and tons of love and heaps of happiness from right across the Emerald Isle and have a MAGNIFICENT Tuesday ahead XXXX
Thanks so much Sue :-D and thanks so much for watching, sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a wonderful plant powered weekend XXXX
Hi Lyn! This was so informative, thank you so much for making this video! It turned out that my two "Christmas cactuses" are actually Thanksgiving cactuses! :D I also have a real christmas cactus, now I know.
Thanks so much for your wonderful comment :-) thats fantastic that you have Thanksgiving cactus and also Christmas Cactus too :-) these plants are so wonderful :-) thanks a million for watching and sending you an abundance of love and happiness and happy growing from right across the Emerald Isle for a fantastic Tuesday today XXXXX
Thanks so much Peter for your wonderful comment :-) thats brilliant news that your Thanksgiving cacti are coming into bud, I LOVE these plants and I will be keeping a close eye out in Aldi and Lidl over the coming days and weeks to see if they have any of these plants for sale this year and will let you know asap if I see any of them for sale as they will be a bargain haha! :-) thanks a million for watching and sending you an abundance of love and happiness and Cactus Power from Waterford for a fantastic Tuesday today XXXXX
Thanks so much for that video! I have checked my cuttings and looks like all of them are actually thanksgiving Cactus rather than the Christmas cactus which I thought they were! I guess that makes sense since they are budding now! Guess I'll need to invest in some of the others now! X
Thanks so much Anna for your wonderful comment :-) I bet your Thanksgiving cacti are all beautiful and yes its brilliant to treat yourself to some of the others too, they is always room for one more or a few more haha! thanks a million for watching and sending you an abundance of love and happiness from right across the Emerald Isle for a fantastic Tuesday today XXXXX
Hi Lyn, I am sending another envelope of Saguaro seeds to you. I have thousands, and know they are hard to find in your country. Thanks for another great video. Your collection is truly amazing. Keith in Arizona
WOOOOOOO HOOOOOOO :-) sooooooooooooooooooooo excited Keith :-) I am so looking forward to receiving my Saguaro seeds and I will let you know as soon as I get them :-) so looking forward to sowing and growing them roll on Spring haha! thanks a million for your kindness Keith and sending you an and sweetiepie Beautrice 5,000 an abundance of love and heaps of happiness and tons of Cactus Power and GROOVINESS from right across the Emerald Isle and have a BRILLIANT Tuesday ahead XXXXX
Hi Keith :-) just a quick mail to let you know i have sent you a message to your inbox here on you Tube and your AMAZING card that you sent has arrived today wooooooooo :-) I LOVE it :-) thanks a million for your fantastic kindness and sending both you and Swetiepie Beautrice tons of love and happiness and GROOVINESS from right across the Emerald Isle for a FANTASTIC Wednesday today XXXXX
Thank lyn, very helpful... I've sketched pictures and off to correctly label mine now ! Yours are also very Shiney and healthy looking.....thanks again.
So happy you found the video helpful Jane and thanks a million for watching :-D thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending you an abundance of love and happiness and PLANT POWER from right across the Emerald Isle for a fantastic Sunday ahead XXXX
Finally I know the clear difference, thanks for the great explanation with visuals! I bought a bunch of very old cacti a few years ago when a gentlemen was moving to Hawaii so he couldn’t take them with him and I have neglected a few of them but I am working on repotting them now that it’s spring and I glad to know that I have a very old but newly sprouting “True Christmas Cactus!” Any advice or a link with information on what to do with my poor root bound cacti? I still need to identify some of them as well!
great lynn that the seedpod is still on the plant. love Stef i brought back from Holland i bag full goodies also some ripsallis cuttings i hope the wil make it. 🙋🙋
Thanks so much Stef for your wonderful comment :-) thats brilliant news that you have bought some goodies from Holland and Rhipsalis cuttings, thats so exciting and I bet with your magic touch they will root and thrive :-) thanks a million for watching and sending you an abundance of love and happiness from right across the Emerald Isle for a fantastic Tuesday today XXXXX
Yeah even here in the U.S. where many (most) DO recognize Thanksgiving, the retailers all sell Thanksgiving cactus mislabeled as "Christmas" cactus. It's hard to find a TRUE Christmas cactus for sale anywhere. I got mine as a start last year at a nursing home craft bazaar. Super lucky find. Thanksgiving cactus are everywhere for sale...just not under the correct name.
Thanks a million Pam for your wonderful comments :-) it can get so confusing with the Christmas and Thanksgiving cacti and the Easter cacti as they all look so similar when out of flower :-) thanks so much for watching and sending both you and ADORABLE Turkey an abundance of love and tons of happiness from right across the Emerald Isle and have a BRILLIANT week ahead XXXXX
It's the end of April here in Australia and my thanksgiving cactus is doing it's thing... couple more weeks and my Christmas cactus will be doing Christmas in July :)
Muito obrigada Fran por seus comentários incríveis :-) cactos de Natal e de Ação de Graças pode olhar :-) thanks so semelhantes tanto para assistir e enviar-lhe e Carlotta um grande abraço e muito amor e felicidade da Irlanda para um fim de semana brillaint XXXX < 3
Very interesting. I will have to have a closer look at mine tomorrow. Most of them flowered in August/ September (southern hemisphere) but I am too tired right now (1:00 am) to figure out what that means. Goodnight☺
Thanks so much for your wonderful comment :-) thats wonderful that you had yours flowering in August and I bet they are all so beautiful :-) thanks a million for watching and sending you an abundance of love and happiness from right across the Emerald Isle for a fantastic Tuesday today XXXXX
Thanks, Lyn!! My Christmas Cactus I have had her for 30 years, she was given to me from my mom who got it from her mom. So it is probably 40+ yrs old. Then I have 4Thanksgiving Cactus's all 5 of them are different colors. I would like an Easter Cactus, but they're hard to find in my area of Canada.
Thank you so much Michael for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending you and sweet Ella an abundance of love and happiness and tons of Plant Power from right across the Emerald Isle for a fantastic Thursday ahead XXXX
Thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending you an abundance of love and happiness from right across the Emerald Isle for a fantastic Tuesday today XXXXX
Now I know why the truncata is sold as a Christmas cactus in stores.I recently got buckleyi cuttings and they are surprisingly fragile for succulents/cacti.Whenever I feel my truncata,it’s pretty hardy and not fragile.Bt the buckleyi was fragile for succulents/cacti.The buckleyi feels like it can snap at any time if you make a wrong move.Anyways my buckleyi cuttings are in water and are doing well.Already grew roots during shipping somehow
Thats fantastic news Alex that your buckleyi cuttings are rooting already :-D and so true indeed the true Christmas cactus buckleyii is a lot more fragile of a plant compared to the truncata, and the buckleyii drops its buds very easily if moved or temperature fluctuations, but the truncata is much hardier and withstands being moved positions and temperature changes and environments much more and makes it an easy sell for many nurseries :-D thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching, and sending you an abundance of love and happiness and PLANT POWER from across the Emerald Isle for a wonderful Wednesday today XXXXX
Desert Plants of Avalon Once my buckleyi cuttings have rooted,I will keep in my living room which is unheated and No air conditioning so I can replicate its native environment.Also our winters get down to 5 C (40 F) and our summers get up to 32 C (90F)
Very informative video. Thanks! We live in Canada, Cacti are not our first choice of plants and even our local nursery doesn't know any difference amount them. They're all labelled as "cactus". It's the same for succulents, they're just called succulent so I never know what their real names are. I find it very annoying.
Thanks so much for your wonderful comment :-) I know exactly what you mean about the bad labelling on cacti in garden centres and shops, they always seem to just be labelled as 'Cactus' or 'Succulent' with no mention of the variety of cactus or succulent that it is, and because there are so many different varieties of these plants it can be difficult to find out what type they are, it maddens me too as I feel that Nurseries and garden centres should have all their plants lbelled with the actual name of the plant we are buying, I see it as just laziness from the trade Nurseries that they can't be bothered to label the plants they are selling on to the Garden stores and centres, and the care instructions if any that come with them are often disastrous too LOL! I have bought cacti with care instructions with 'much water and shade' for a Desert Cactus, so disastrous for newbies too if they took that advice :-) thanks a million for watching and sending you an abundance of love and happiness from right across the Emerald Isle for a fantastic Tuesday today XXXXX
Desert Plants of Avalon Thanks for your reply. I have to agree the lack of proper labeling was a product of laziness. Mislabeling really annoys me too. I was at one of the biggest nurseries in town just two days ago looking at their succulents. They put a "Hens & Chicks" tag on an Echeveria, and an Echeveria tag on some random sedums. So yea, if we followed some the instructions on the tag that could definitely spell disasters.
Thanks so much Susana for all your wonderful comments and for watching and sending you an abundance of love and happiness and Plant Power from right across the Emerald Isle for a BRILLIANT Tuesday today XXXXX
All the Christmas cacti I've seen in stores are actually thanksgiving cacti or hybrids with mostly truncata heritage. We see a lot of true Christmas cacti in peoples homes, but they usually got them as cuttings from a friend or relative. I was able to get some cuttings of the real thing on EBay this spring. Since they are so easy to propagate, make such huge plants, and are so well loved, lots of people are selling them on EBay. I think the situation here is that our greenhouses don't grow their own "mother plants" anymore. They buy crates of cuttings from a wholesale nursery every spring, pot, root and grow them through the summer and fall for sale during the holidays. The nurseries only grow plants of about five different hybrids, which I will admit usually have larger and more colorful blooms. but they are mostly derived from S. truncata. As far as I've been able to see, S. buckleyi is just as reliable a bloomer as truncata, but the blossoms are slightly smaller and come in a single color. When they bloom, both species are magnificent. The term Thanksgiving cactus is a relatively new phrase. In all the old books, they called them "crab cactus". I guess some nursery, somewhere, decided that "crab cactus" wasn't very marketable, so they invented the "Thanksgiving cactus"
Thanks so much Emmit for your fantastic comment :-) yes the name Crab Cactus doesn't have the same appeal haha! its so difficult to find the True Christmas cactus now and all the stores seem to just sell the S. truncata, thats brilliant that you were able to get some cuttings from ebay of the true Christmas Cactus, I was so lucky to be gifted some by my wonderful friend too :-) thanks a million for watching and sending you an abundance of love and tons of happiness from right across the Emerald Isle for a MAGNIFICENT Tuesday ahead today XXXXX
thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending you an abundance of love and happiness and PLANT POWER from across the Emerald Isle for a marvellous Monday and new week ahead XXXXX
Thanks so much Pablo for your wonderful comment :-) yes I made a video last year but the Christmas cactus cutting that my friend gave me that I thought was a Christmas Cactus turned out to be an Easter Cactus haha! so I decided to make the film again LOL! :-) I am so happy to see a sed pod on my Thanksgiving cactus :-) thanks a million for watching and sending you an abundance of love and happiness from right across the Emerald Isle for a fantastic Tuesday today XXXXX
Thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending you an abundance of love and happiness from right across the Emerald Isle for a fantastic Thursday ahead XXXX
In denmark we get them as november cactus i got an Orange flower one as halloween cactus but still "just" a november cactus i would love to find a christmas cactus one day
Thats wonderful you have an orange flowering Schlumbergera Anders, the Christmas cactus is so hard to find for sale now, thanks so much for your wonderful comment and support and for watching, sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER to Denmark for a wonderful new week XXXX
LOL! I can't resist petting the fruits on the cacti and always so happy to see seed pods forming on them :-) thanks so much for your fantastic comments and for watching and sending you an abundance of love and happiness from right across the Emerald Isle and have a WONDERFUL Friday ahead XXXX
Thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending you an abundance of love and happiness and tons of happy growing from right across the Emerald Isle for a fantastic Tuesday today XXXXX
Thanks for the video Lyn! wonderfull fruit and all your christhmas cacti. I noticed that my cactus Schlumbergera Truncata. It has flower buds, It is normal to bloom now? in my room is 13 to 17 C °
Thanks so much Gicu for your wonderful comment :-) thats fantastic news that your Schlumbergera truncata Cactus has buds too and yes its normal for them to be coming into bud now, you will be blessed with lots of beautiful blooms very soon :-) thanks so much for watching and sending you an abundance of love and happiness from right across the Emerald Isle for a fantastic Tuesday today XXXXX
Thanks so much Chadde for your brilliant comment :-) and thats a really interesting point to make, I have cross pollinated two different types of Thanksgiving cactus but not a Thanksgiving cactus with a Christmas Cactus but because they are both Schlumbergera cacti they should be able to cross pollinate, and although they flower a few weeks a part, the pollen could be stored in the fridge and applied to the other plant in flower whe its flowering, I may have a go at this in the future haha! :-) thanks a million for watching Chadde and sending you and Tammy, and ADORABLE Lobo, Kurgan and Oscar and the Yorkies an abundance of love and tons of happiness from right across the Emerald Isle for a FANTASTIC and FUN filled Tuesday ahead XXXXX
I know this video is old, but the leaf and flower arrangement/style on my (ID'd thanks to your video!) Thanksgiving cactus is the same as you've shown; but mine starts to bud in late December and blooms properly in mid to late January. I have had it bloom in mid to early December too. Could it be a hybrid? Also, what are those long white things sticking out of the flowers? I've never seen that before!
Hi Christina :-D thats wonderful your Thanksgiving cactus blooms for you yearly, yes these plants can vary quite a bit and there are many different hybrids and some are more prone to flowering earlier, I notice that this year all of mine are still in bud in January and usually by now most of them would have been flowering or finished flowering, they can vary in their flowering times year to year due to the temperatures being different from previous years, we have had quite a cold spell here in Ireland and Uk in early December and it has set them back by about 6 weeks, but strangely I have noticed the same with my Thanksgiving cacti I have indoors as they are all slow to open their buds this month also, the long white threads are filaments from the flowers, but these plants also produce long white threads in between the leaves ( clades ) that are little fine aerial roots where they take up moisture from the environment, thanks so much Christina for your wonderful comment and for watching, and sending you lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER for a wonderful Wednesday today XXXX
I hope so ... before i did cut one of it and i did water it in a cup of water is did rooting and then i put it in a organic soil but it is change the greeing color and died😩 maybe want more time in water right ?
Thats such a shame that your cutting died but I would definitely try again, and let the roots fully form well in the glass before rooting up again :-) sending you heaps of love and happiness from right across the Emerald Isle for a wonderful Friday XXXX
Hello. Where did you find the Christmas cactus? I live in the UK and I've been looking to buy one but everywhere I only found the thanksgiving cactus labeled as Christmas cactus
Hi Maddy :-D I was very lucky as I was gifted cuttings of the Christmas cactus from friends, but it can be very hard to find for sale normally as the Thanksgiving one is the most commonly seen for sale now, I think online may be your best choice to get the true Christmas cactus or on ebay, you could try kakteenhaage.com and also uhligkakteen.com too, XXXXX
The real Christmas Cactus also appears to have three scallops per leaf edge, whereas the Easter Cactus seems to have more. I don't know if this is always the case, I just noticed it in your video.
Yes thats right, my Easter cacti have more scallops per leaf segment :-D Thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching, sending lots of love and happiness and PLANT POWER from across the Emerald Isle for a fantastic new week XXXXX
Hi Linda :-) yes Easter cacti can be propagated in exactly the same way at the Christmas and Thanksgiving cacti and they root very readily by their segments :-) thanks a million for watching and sending you an abundance of love and happy growing from right across the Emerald Isle XXXXX
Down here in Florida the "Thanksgiving cactus" are sold as Christmas cactus. I guess because it takes longer to cool down, here. I've always heard the cooler weather triggers them to bloom is that true?
Thanks so much Travis for your wonderful comment :-) yes the cooler night temperatures ad the shorter day length triggers these beauties to produce buds :-) thanks a million for watching and sending you an abundance of love and happiness from right across the Emerald Isle to Florida for a fantastic Tuesday today XXXXX
Thanks! Good to know. And I know this isn't very important, but Schlumberger is a German name, so the "sch" is pronounced like the English "sh" with no "k" sound in there at all. I was very confused the first time you said it...
Help. I am trying to identify a Schlumbergera sp cactus I have. Unfortunately I don't know its origin. The leaf form is basically that of Schlumbergera truncata with the sharp edge notches but rather than flower at the centre of the terminal leaf pads it flowers either at the junction of leaf pads or actually in the leaf notches. The flower form looks more like Schlumbergera x reginae but that also seems to flower at the tips of the leaf pads. Any ideas?
hello happy new year! great video i can always tell the difference between them myself :).i do have a couple easter ones,thanksgiving and christmas.they don;t sell christmas cactuses anymore in store its only thanksgiving ones they call those christmas but really they are not.around easter holiday i see the easter ones out and their flowers are entirely different then both of the other two.they are so beautiful loved this video! oh how to do pollinate the flower like that?
HAPPY NEW YEAR Elisabeth :-) hope you had a wonderful Christmas :-) so true the Christmas cacti are impossible to find now in the shops, you only see the Thanksgiving ones for sale, I am so happy to see the seed pods forming and so looking forward to sowing the seeds in Spring :-) Here is a video I made on pollinating them :-) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ULzPhHYqMas.html Sending you an abundance of love and heaps of happiness from right across the Emerald Isle and have a BRILLIANT 2017 ahead XXXXX
ok thank you i will look at the video! oh im excited my huge christmas cactus that i rooted 10 years ago has many buds on it.i still have the mother plant which is small and has not bloomed in many years that was my grandmas 30 plus year old! hope u had a great merry christmas also!
Do Schlumbergera buckleyii come in any color than magenta? For the Truncatas I've seen many colors available but for Christmas cactus, it's always the same magenta.
According to this I have a true Christmas cactus. It blooms in november. And a little in January. A small bloom in March. And a bigger one in May when I kick in outside for the summer. I think it is probably just old and senile and has forgotten when it is supposed to bloom. It is at least 40 years old.
Thats wonderful news you have a 40 year old true Christmas cactus and a bonus it blooms twice for you too, thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching and have a fantastic Monday XXXX
I bet your Christmas cactus will surprise you with the most amazing flowers very soon :-) thanks so much for watching Ahmad and sending an abundance of love and happiness and tons of plant power from Ireland for a fantastic Thursday today XXXXX
My mum gave me a cutting of thanksgiving cactus 25 years ago and it's still going strong and huge now! My mums one has what looks like egg shaped mini cacti in between where some of the leaves join, any idea why or what causes those Lynn?
Thanks so much Fiona for your wonderful comment :-) I bet your 25 year old Thanksgiving Cactus is an absolute beauty and extra special from your Mum's Cactus too :-) WOW! thats really interesting about the egg shaped cacti in between where some of the leaves join and I am wondering if at some point many years ago another cactus was grafted onto it, as I can't think what else it could be but it sounds incredible :-) thanks a million for watching and sending you an abundance of love and happiness from right across the Emerald Isle for a fantastic Tuesday today XXXXX
Hi Lyn, ive had my Christmas cactus on my balcony in the summer but with Cold weather coming as I live in Ontario Canada I have brought them inside. I was wondering if they will flower on their own or if I have to put them in a dark place first? Thanks Lyn xo
Thanks so much Lori for your wonderful comment :-) sometimes these beauties will flower on their own but sometimes when they refuse to flower it can be down to the extra hear and or lighting in our homes, as the cooler nightime temperatures and the shorter day length is what triggers these plants to form buds :-) if you have your Christmas Cactus in a room where you have the lighting on of an evening it may be best to move it to a room that doesn't have any additional lighting as the lights in the room can sometimes make the plant think the days are longer than they are LOL! but sometimes it doesn't make a difference as my Cactus is in my office with the lights on of a night and it is still coming into bud, I think these plants have a mind of their own haha! :-) thanks a million for watching Sis and sending you an abundance of love and happiness from right across the Emerald Isle for a fantastic Tuesday XXXX
So sorry to hear about the buds but hopefully it will re bloom for you very soon :-D thanks so much Sharon for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending you an abundance of love and happiness and PLANT POWER from right across the Emerald Isle and have a fantastic Friday XXXX
Thanks so much for your wonderful comment and for watching :-) I LOVE your fantastic channel and I have subscribed :-) sending you an abundance of love and happiness from right across the Emerald Isle for a fantastic Tuesday XXXX
Hi there, I am not sure where you could get seedlings from as I think most online garden shops only sell cuttings or mature plants, thanks so much for watching and have a wonderful weekend XXXX
LOL! I know its so confusing with them all especially as the Easter Cactus is very similar in appearance with the rounded scalloped edges to the leaves as the Christmas cactus, it can be very difficult to tell the difference between them both when they are out of flower :-) thanks so much John for your wonderful comment and for watching and sending you an abundance of love and happiness from right across the Emerald Isle for a fantastic Tuesday today XXXXX
haha Ben :-D it can be so difficult to tell the difference as they are so similar out of flower :-D a lot of people get the Christmas cactus mixed up with the Easter one haha :-D XXXXXX
Very interesting. I will have to have a closer look at mine tomorrow. Most of them flowered in August/ September (southern hemisphere) but I am too tired right now (1:00 am) to figure out what that means. Goodnight☺
Thanks so much for your wonderful comment :-) thats wonderful that you had yours flowering in August and I bet they are all so beautiful :-) thanks a million for watching and sending you an abundance of love and happiness from right across the Emerald Isle for a fantastic Tuesday today XXXXX
