Love me a night show

dustin0352 · Post by **dustin0352** » Sun Apr 10, 2011 11:01 am

Some of you might remember this plants minimal but very pretty showing last year. Well this year has totally impressed the heck outta me! These buds/blooms came out of no where, and put on a great show for me. Plus the fragrance is outta this world!! very sweet and can be smelled past 15ft away.

Oh and these photos also include a "Find me if you can"

TimN · Post by **TimN** » Sun Apr 10, 2011 7:09 pm

WOW, the aroma must be almost overpowering!

Harriet · Post by **Harriet** » Sun Apr 10, 2011 7:13 pm

Magnificent!

john b · Post by **john b** » Sun Apr 10, 2011 9:45 pm

Wow!

John

apfire · Post by **apfire** » Sun Apr 10, 2011 10:59 pm

Absolutely Beautiful!!!! What is it?

Mr Monopoly · Post by **Mr Monopoly** » Sun Apr 10, 2011 11:57 pm

stunning!

*Barracuda_52* · Post by ***Barracuda_52*** » Mon Apr 11, 2011 4:33 am

WOOOOHOOO right on Dustin!! Absolutely STUNNING!!!!

Arjen · Post by **Arjen** » Mon Apr 11, 2011 6:00 am

very beautiful!

cactuslee · Post by **cactuslee** » Mon Apr 11, 2011 1:05 pm

wow, those are amazing. so many blossoms at once really makes it a fantastic show, and i agree the aroma must really be strong.

peterb · Post by **peterb** » Mon Apr 11, 2011 1:56 pm

Gorgeous!

peterb

hob · Post by **hob** » Mon Apr 11, 2011 4:23 pm

great show

Post by **daiv** » Tue Apr 12, 2011 4:45 am

You can barely see the plant!

What do you all think? Is it better to have all blooms open at once for a grand show or to have only a couple open over a long period of time?

Daiv
PS. For the "Find me" - I see Dustin Toes in two of the pics!

dustin0352 · Post by **dustin0352** » Tue Apr 12, 2011 8:33 am

Thanks everyone!

Daiv, I think a grand show is perfect for this type of cactus, one night of bloom then they are spent. but for a cactus which its blooms last a few day I'd rather a few at a time.

As for the aroma of this show, wow! as soon as the sun came up the bee's and other bugs swarmed them. I hope the bees did some good, cause this leads to the "find me if you can"

Wait what???!!!! I truely thought this was all the same plant! Imagine my surprise when I seen 2 red blooms! I never even noticed red buds as I was just taken by how many white buds were popin out. So hopefully the bee's did their work (incase they missed some I tickled em all).

Peterthecactusguy · Post by **Peterthecactusguy** » Tue Apr 12, 2011 12:37 pm

we couldnt see the red buds they were below the thick white flowers that were hiding the plant!

hahaha

BTW cool that you have some red flowers too, maybe it will make some cool hybrids!