The Thanksgiving cactus was looking pretty drab in the bedroom window, with full sun and a strange heating unit that insists that 65 degree settings means it should heat my little room up to 75. I moved the cactus and found about a half dozen buds that had been shed there on the bedroom shelf. So now more "indirect sun" in the living room, and cooler temps. I hope it's not too cold for her.
So for the last week no new blooms. I also found my frequent watering had left the bottom of the pot quite waterlogged. Hope to let it dry out a bit. We shall see.
Today's quote:
Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.
-Douglas Hofstadter, professor of cognitive science (b. 15 Feb 1945)
...you have more success with Thanksgiving cactus than I do.
ReplyDeleteI love seeing all these other people's cactus blooming. I'm hanging my head.
DeleteIt's tricky, regulating the heat and the water. Hope she recovers.
ReplyDeleteI'm best with plants I can ignore, and then just appreciate!
DeleteYou are doing better than me. Mine dropped all their buds.
ReplyDeleteHa ha, yes, we have the same problem!
DeleteI hope the Thanksgiving cactus recovers and thrives. (NewRobin13)
ReplyDeleteThanks...we shall see grasshopper, we shall see...
DeleteI'd love to have one but don't know where I'd put it.
ReplyDeleteThat can be a problem!
DeleteMine has been blooming for about a week. We just have ours sitting in the window facing the river. Sun in the morning if it comes out, if not it still does good. We keep our apartment on the cool side so the plant doesn't mind.
ReplyDeleteI worry that the southern sun coming in is too hot these days...it feels much warmer most days. I keep the heat turned way down, so during the day the only heat is through the windows on sunny days. Show me a photo of your plant!
DeleteI expect that if anyone can nurse it to health it will be you.
ReplyDeleteI sometimes am lucky, and sometimes just fail completely. That's life.
DeleteI'm so hopeless with plants that I once killed a cactus.
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