I just got a couple of clippings of Night Blooming Cereus!!

[Bluelove9682]

Does anyone have any stories of their "Queen of the Night" in bloom? I'm so excited to have gotten two clippings of my husbands late grandmother's Cereus and I've recently researched how to take care of it. Any tips or advice IS extremely welcomed! Thanks everyone!!!

[Bear in the garden]

I just wanted to bring this up to date and show you what you will have in a very short time, Oxypetallum night blooming cereus are fast growers and in about 3 years you should get your first blooms, they may not be as big as a older plant but by the age of 4 or 5 your flowers should any where from 8/10 inches wide. The first pic is my old gal she is about 15 yrs old #2 her growing in a dark damp basement for the winter #3 her in bloom out side this past summer #4 a flower off a 6yr old plant I started from a cutting #5 is one of the best pic I even got of a bee in the flower, this all started with one old plant that nobody wanted and was heading for the dump, but ended up in my home for unwanted plants.

Bear

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[rainbowgardener]

Gorgeous!

[barnercora]

That is one cool looking plant. Never seen one like it, may I ask where you got them/purchased?

[Bear in the garden]

the plant came from a moving sale, I stopped to see if they had any flower pots, I found a few cheap and when I was walking back to my car I saw the night bloomer in the trash so I went back and ask about it, the guy said it hadn't bloomed in years and they didn't want it, I ask if I could have it and he said take it , when I got home I washed the roots off and put it in a 5 gal pot by the next year it was blooming like crazy. I have started many plants off of cuttings from this plant. I trim the plant each spring enough to get it out to the shade house and then back in when it starts to get to cold for it in the fall. by spring I will have more cuttings and rooted cuttings to trade.

Bear