Have you ever owned a flowering cactus?
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Colt COAT of Justice
ANSWERS: 16
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I have 2 and they have just started to flower:)
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My husband has many flowering cactus. He has been growing them for years.
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yes it never flowered! don't know what happened to it.
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I have, but it really isn't necessary where I live - there are countless flowering cacti growing in the foothills and mesas all around me.
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Yes and it too later died
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I have tall flowering cactus all around my farm. They have grown so tall that they practically cover the barbed wire fences. But careful - never smell a cactus flower holding it close to your nose. There will be bees and insects in them and they invariably get into your nose.
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I own a flowering cactus for over 15 years, but it never bloom.
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loads
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I thought I did, until the flower came unglued *LOL*
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Yes. I once owned a 13 inch-tall Parodia leninghausii (golden ball cactus) that flowered year after year. It took about 6 or 7 years before it finally flowered after I bought it. In the winter, it was on a cold icy window sill, and it bloomed every spring when the weather warmed up. Here's what the flower looked like.
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Yes, i collect succulents and i have a few cacti;0)
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Sure, three of them, now.
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Yes, a small one I bought when I visited Phoenix.
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No but i like them.
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yes, started with a 6 inch long by 3/4 in. at the base segment that grew 20 inches in the first year, then set 5 flower buds that grew into a 1 in. by 1.5 in long Jap. lantern like bud, that opened into a 5 petal star of furry haired fleshy bloom, a rather striped kind of purple. i didn't place the smell from it, fairly weak, till it started drawing flies. Then I looked again and the purple shade of began to resemble the crushed flesh of roadkill. it's a kind of corpus flower. 2 to 3 inches when open fully, and the smell is weak so that you have to put your nose right up to /in to it to smell what it is that brings the flies to it. I had it out side in the sun with 4 or 5 blooms open and counted 5 shades of "bottle" flies drawn to in in a half hour. All flies , no yellow jackets, strangely.
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Many cactus do flower under the the right conditions and on rare intervals.
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