Right on cue, my Christmas cactus Schlumbergera russelliana, is about to flower. Not a patch of it’s former self after a difficult year of mealy bug infestation. This plant started as a cutting from my grandmother’s plant over 50 years ago. @gardenopus.bsky.social - ThreadSky

pmgilmartin.bsky.social • 59 days ago

Right on cue, my Christmas cactus Schlumbergera russelliana, is about to flower. Not a patch of it’s former self after a difficult year of mealy bug infestation. This plant started as a cutting from my grandmother’s plant over 50 years ago. @gardenopus.bsky.social

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gardenopus.bsky.social•59 days ago

💕🌱Beautiful as always, Phil! And Merry Christmas! 🎅 A few of mine have taken a hit from rot, of course, when they were at peak form.🙄 Most bounce back though a couple went to Heaven.👻 Yours is a classic and tough, a great heirloom & sweet remembrance of your grandmother!

pmgilmartin.bsky.social•59 days ago

Thank you. Merry Christmas 🎄

phoebe-poodle.bsky.social•59 days ago

A magnificent plant still nonetheless! Mealybugs can be a real nuisance, they're so good at hiding in parts of the plant that are hard to get to as well.

Merry Christmas to you and Mrs G! Hope you have a lovely time 🎄🌟🎅

pmgilmartin.bsky.social•59 days ago

Thank you, & all the very best to you too🎄

caryk.bsky.social•59 days ago

A Merry Christmas to you, Mrs G, and Hannah, Phil. Did you receive a new jumper?

pmgilmartin.bsky.social•59 days ago

Merry Christmas to you two too. No, no jumper this year.

robppm319.bsky.social•59 days ago

i hate mealy bugs.
nice job saving it.
hate to sound like GQT but perhaps more cuttings for insurance maybe?

pmgilmartin.bsky.social•59 days ago

Good plan, I’ve one healthy cutting, but will take a couple more 👍

sallyanneingham.bsky.social•59 days ago

These are such a forever plant. We have Christmas and Easter cactus they got a bit muddled this year, been flowering almost constantly

pmgilmartin.bsky.social•59 days ago

Yes, it’s been a mixed up year for them.

susanwabuda.bsky.social•59 days ago

Gorgeous! I was able to rescue a Christmas cactus from an uncertain fate at the end of the summer. It had been left without water in a dark cold corner of a house about to be sold. It won't bloom this season, but it is growing new leaves! Happy Christmas!

pmgilmartin.bsky.social•59 days ago

That’s great. I’m sure it will repay the kindness with blooms next year.

oldtiredgrumpy.bsky.social•59 days ago

Ours came early this year and have been in flower for the last month.

pmgilmartin.bsky.social•59 days ago

The one on the left looks like a true S. russelliana, the one on the right is more likely a Schlumbergera hybrid, check the flowers on both, russelliana are radial, others are zygomorphic.

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