My columnars get floppy after flowering

[BarryRice]

So I'm wondering if anyone else has observed this...

A few of my columnar Echinopsis (Tricocereus)---especially E. huascha---sometimes get super-floppy after flowering, to the extent that I have to support them or else the stem will flop over and break.

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I've noticed that my 'Flying Saucer' hybrid, while not getting bendy, has certainly adopted a significant lean after its most recent flowering..... It's at the center of this photo---until a few weeks ago it was perfectly vertical.

(Oh....the apparent lean of the foreground-right Cleistocactus is just an artifact of the camera distortion.)

[KittieKAT]

Wow everything looks beautiful! Regardless of the leans.
I wonder if anyone else has the same issues with leaning during flowering(?) our plants and my own arent tall enough to really lean and many i have yet too see flower for myself