Cacti flowering.

Lovely! It got the timing more or less right too. I have a very similar one that also flowered on time this year - its usually too early for Christmas. Same colour too. I do love them don't you? Did you time flowering with watering or was it serendipity - mine was pure luck this year...My red and pink one was early and all done by Christmas as usual...

Hi Sterra, Yes, I love this plant and this is a potful of cuttings I took a couple of years ago when the other plant got a bit old. I just water it when the pot looks dry. When it's budding I keep it a bit damper and when it finishes flowering I feed it, and then give it a feed now and again in the Summer. It lives in the conservatory on a window that gets the sun first half of the morning and when the autumn/winter comes, before it has any buds on I move it to the kitchen window where it gets more sunshine. If you move it with the buds on to a change of temperature they sometimes drop off. I just do my own thing. POT LUCK I think Sterra......Everyone has their own way of tending plants. The flowers are magnificent though.