Cactus Blooms so many this year

[Len B]

I read teri's thread about blooms and new growth and Tom mentioned how many more blooms he has this year also, I noticed that I have a greater number of blooms on mine,and I'm 3000 miles east of him so it can't just be the weather. has anyone else noticed a difference in their plants?Here's a pic taken today of a few pads. I have never had so many blooms on one pad,notice the bloom at the top with 2 small blooms starting to show at the base of it.------also I have this night blooming cactus that opened tonight does any one know what type it is? I got it off Lowes almost dead rack a couple years ago. Len

 

[ALDABRAMAN]

That is the most new blooms I have ever seen on a cactus. Looks healthy also.

 

[Jacob]

Thats So Many!

 

[dmarcus]

Very cool gonna have a lot of fruit..

 

[Tom]

Your other cactus looks like my organ pipe cactus. Got any more pics of it? If that's what it is, I feed it a couple of times a month. I stick a fork in it near the top, hack off about a foot of it, and lay it flat on a counter. Then I hack the rounded top off, stick the fork in the now flat end, and stand it up to cut the spines off. I just slide the knife right down the length of it, cutting off the rows of spines and most of the skin with them. When they were smaller, I would cut it up into small pieces after all that, but now I just feed it to them whole.

 

[zesty_17]

Our opuntia stocks seem to be struggling this year, not sure if they have been over harvested or what. There seems to be a white film on the plants, but our vets assure me it is still tort safe-thoughts as to what it could be? Sorry, i do not have any pictures. The film looks like the wax found on grocery store fruit-like apples, when you rub it, along with what appears to be spider webbing...

 

[Tom]

Here are a couple of pic of mine from last week. I'm getting much more pad growth this year too. I have around 25 of them ranging in age from a few months old to 3 years old. They grow pretty slow for me. Maybe because I'm always hacking on them... haha

And here is my organ pipe cactus:

 

[Yvonne G]

If your night-bloomer is a tall cactus (like Tom's organ pipe), then it is in the cereus family, but I don't know the "sub-species" name.

If it grows in a clump and stays low to the ground, its echinopsis.

 

[RV's mom]

We have a night blooming extremely tall cactus that is throwing blooms right now. Some of them we knock off and feed to RV, the rest we leave to go to fruit. Sorry I don't know the name.

You can see how big they get..

RV enjoying the bounty..