Cactus Flower

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

My cactus chose tonight to flower!
Been waiting and waiting, watching the bud grow.
It's not fully open yet and already it's 5" across.

[Inmykombi (Geoff)]

Originally Posted by jjjnettie

My cactus chose tonight to flower!
Been waiting and waiting, watching the bud grow.
It's not fully open yet and already it's 5" across.

Nice one JJJ.

Dont get too close to it, it may be hungry....

[leon]

Nice one JJJ, and this is what it will look like when fully developed.

PS. not trying to high jack your post, but we are Cactus lovers and have heaps of them.

Leon

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

I'm taking photos of this last stage in the hope of creating an animation. Wish I'd realised it was going to open tonight. I could have gotten the whole thing.
It's the 3 year it's flowered. There was another bud growing, only just noticed it had fallen off.


Of course I don't mind you showing me yours Leon. (did I say that??)

[Liz]

Beautiful pic jjj, I think I have one of those, but is yet to flower.

[Terry B]

Originally Posted by jjjnettie

I'm taking photos of this last stage in the hope of creating an animation. Wish I'd realised it was going to open tonight. I could have gotten the whole thing.
It's the 3 year it's flowered. There was another bud growing, only just noticed it had fallen off.


Of course I don't mind you showing me yours Leon. (did I say that??)

Epiphylum cacti are nocturnal flowering. Sometimes they will only last 1 night and die by the morning.

[h0ughy (David)]

did you time lapse it JJJ? nice shot

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

LOL I think flashing a flash at a night flower every 10 minutes causes it to think that it's day time and it must close.
Bleeding obvious when you think about it.

[leon]

You did JJJ, it's all good.

Leon