Interesting! And wow, those flowers are so gorgeous. I really want to tour your gardens/land in person and see all the natives.

Winter hardy? Gorgeous!

Yes , it is Tally's cereus. God bless her. It is not winter hardy here. I have it on castors and it is rolled in on the cold fronts.

I lost mine 2 years ago. Too heavy and voluminous to bring it to the garage.

Omar

This is so cool :D

i wonder when it is going to branch. Omar, Did yours branch naturally , or did you cut it back to get it too. I cut one back with a slanted cut and it did not branch.

I lost one also, and that is why I put it on casters when Tally gave me another one. Ragna gave me one of hers (from Tally also)

BossyV, it might be winter hardy for you , where you are. Can't say. It died at 13º

I got it from Ragna too. It grew like crazy without branching and then it was killed by the winter.

Omar

WEird. Hers branched.

How pretty! My husband hates thorny things so he doesn't want me to plant cacti. I kind of like them if he wasn't so adamant about not having any more thorny things. He just barely tolerates roses and bougainvillia!

Bummer, my little buds fell off.

Did it rain a lot in your area?

Omar

No, 1/3" over three days.

sorry they lost their buds.

Mara, the way your Tally's cactus buds two days after the full moon is a very interesting observation. Wish I still had all of mine, but a freeze got them a couple of years ago. I think it would have come back from the roots, but as large as they can get they were too much a chore to keep cutting back so I had Bob take them out. The roots were huge

I loved everything about it; the flowers, the form, and especially how it twisted. It was in full sun. I wonder if that influenced the twist as I don't see yours twisting ...

Yes, mine branched at the cuts which I had to make since it was swooping out over the path.

I still miss Tally ...

Mine does not twist (darn it) and It does not branch (double darn). When you cut it, did you make the cut straight across?

Yes, I would cut them straight across. I looked for photos and could only find this one showing the cutting I got from Tally and the way the sides branched out.

I sat a pot on it to cover the ugly top, but the side branches eventually grew thick enough to cover it.

I cut it on a slant, Maybe that is my problem.I only got one branching arm.

Well, It has bloomed "out of sequence" the last two times so I guess I need to toss out my theory and go back to the drawing board.

Oh dang! I hate it when those neat little discoveries don't pan out ... LOL But glad to know that it's blooming!

I have 10 buds on one stalk this time. I have been watering once or twice a week.