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blowng
Calm and Collected
Number of posts: 255
Location: Mellville
Registration date: 2008-10-28
| | Subject: unsure of id on this but shes gorgeous Tue Oct 27, 2009 6:18 pm | |
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Marleneann
Number of posts: 30
Location: Buderim, Queensland
Registration date: 2009-09-15
| | Subject: Re: Who are the Epiphyllum growers? Tue Oct 27, 2009 6:41 pm | |
| WOW!...blowng ...that small plant has a lot of flower buds.
What have you been feeding it? |
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blowng
Calm and Collected
Number of posts: 255
Location: Mellville
Registration date: 2008-10-28
| | Subject: Re: Who are the Epiphyllum growers? Thu Oct 29, 2009 12:47 pm | |
| a bit of a story there ,driving to work fast one morning i accidentilly hit an emu ,and feeling bad and not wanting to waste this poor creature and also wanting to pay for the damage to the front of my car decided to compost the emus body ,it was left in a garbage bin away from the nose for a year and mixed in was leaf mulch...what resulted was a black sweet smelling compost which i top dressed this epi with ...lol, i think she like it  |
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KanJe
watchman
Number of posts: 393
Location: Melbourne
Registration date: 2008-06-24
| | Subject: Re: Who are the Epiphyllum growers? Thu Oct 29, 2009 12:51 pm | |
| That's a very cool story blowng. I never thought of using road kill for this purpose... |
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Marianne N Belyaev
Number of posts: 12
Location: Saint-Petersburg, Russia
Registration date: 2010-05-25
| | Subject: Re: Who are the Epiphyllum growers? Tue May 25, 2010 5:34 am | |
| Here is one from Saint-Petersburg Botanical Garden:  Посмотреть на Яндекс.Фотках  Посмотреть на Яндекс.Фотках 10th of May 2010 and one more from private collection  «Цветущий кактус» на Яндекс.Фотках The sun is rare guest in Saint-Petersburg and all the same these epiphyllum bloom! |
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mutant
Calm and Collected
Number of posts: 278
Location: Greece
Registration date: 2010-01-10
| | Subject: Re: Who are the Epiphyllum growers? Mon Jun 14, 2010 10:02 pm | |
| Gorgeous flowers these plants  |
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Marleneann
Number of posts: 30
Location: Buderim, Queensland
Registration date: 2009-09-15
| | Subject: Re: Who are the Epiphyllum growers? Thu Jul 01, 2010 7:10 pm | |
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Darren
Calm and Collected
Number of posts: 323
Location: adelaide but moving to monbulk
Registration date: 2009-09-07
| | Subject: Re: Who are the Epiphyllum growers? Thu Jul 01, 2010 9:01 pm | |
| they have great flowers!! does epiphphyllum produce the fuit they call dragon fruit? |
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Navajoa
Moderator
Number of posts: 497
Location: Australia
Registration date: 2009-09-15
| | Subject: Re: Who are the Epiphyllum growers? Thu Jul 01, 2010 9:09 pm | |
| I think Dragon fruit come from a Hylocereus... |
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Darren
Calm and Collected
Number of posts: 323
Location: adelaide but moving to monbulk
Registration date: 2009-09-07
| | Subject: Re: Who are the Epiphyllum growers? Thu Jul 01, 2010 9:38 pm | |
| cool!!!! ive got some hylocereus, thanks cactuscook  can you graft cacti to ephiphyllum? i think i saw somewhere someone grafting zygo??? are zygo epiphyllum  |
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Lachy
Moderator
Number of posts: 682
Location: Langwarrin
Registration date: 2008-04-05
| | Subject: Re: Who are the Epiphyllum growers? Thu Jul 01, 2010 11:09 pm | |
| I've seen photos of Epiphylum (or possibly Zygocactus; it's been a while) grafted to some sort of columnar stock, possibly a Trich of some flavour. The result was something almost like a standard rose: a tall stock, with a burst of greenery and flowers coming out of the top. |
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