Anyone else like moths or shall I shut up now?

[Aktungbby]

In responding to Nipplespanner's "Pandora's Box" gun-thread comment I came across this:

[GT182]

I haven't seen any around here in DE, but I need the sphinx moth to pollinate my 2 Night-blooming cereus plant's blossoms.
http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=...fo0&ajaxhist=0

Above is not mine but is the same flower. They bloom only after dark and thru the night giving off a scent that smells like heaven. When daylight comes they're done and close only to die if not pollinated. If the blossom has been pollinated by the sphinx moth or a bat, then it will produce fruit.

Which one needed, I have no idea. LOL
http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=...=0&FORM=IARRTH

[Eichhörnchen]

That's a real esoteric hobby you've got there... top man How did you become involved in this, GT182?

[Aktungbby]

HUH! In Bride of the Water God by Yun Mi-kyung, a night-blooming cereus is referred to as the "Loneliness of the Night" and refers most specifically to Epiphyllum oxypetalum. Do try to keep up! The flowers are described as being paired, so if one flower is plucked, another flower will die somewhere else. Therefore, they are also given the nickname "short-lived love". If you 'd just keep up with esoteric romance trivia you wouldn't need to ask such simple questions. Even Armistead and Wolfertz know this stuff! At least have a Dutchman's Pipe Cactus in your conservatory Naturally I lean toward the Sonoran Desert Cereus Peruvianus myself ...being a High Plains Drifter Rider of the Purple Sage anti-hero type. A word of caution: do not ever attempt to induce any of your inamoratii into field-trip night-viewing these baby's; They'll think your on some cheap 'make' and clobber you! (FYI the Peruvianus is pollinated by a moth...but I'm bats about 'em anyhow!)

[Eichhörnchen]

Well you live & learn...

[CaptainRamius]

I really don't like moths, I don't even remember why I opened this thread
Maybe it was to add to my post count. Maybe not

[Eichhörnchen]

I used to spend many happy hours wandering up and down the edges of field and wood in the dead of a warm summer night, adding to my collection from the heavily scented brambles. But I got so I couldn't bear the thought of killing them any more just for my own arcane hobby.

You opened this thread because of the secret powers of the forest squirrel, by the way.

[CaptainRamius]

Originally Posted by Eichhörnchen

I used to spend many happy hours wandering up and down the edges of field and wood in the dead of a warm summer night, adding to my collection from the heavily scented brambles. But I got so I couldn't bear the thought of killing them any more just for my own arcane hobby.

You opened this thread because of the secret powers of the forest squirrel, by the way.

Oh master, help me to harness the power of the forest squirrel!
Fun fact: did you know that Einhörnchen means squirrel in German? I know, because I'm half German, half American.

[CaptainRamius]

Originally Posted by Eichhörnchen

I used to spend many happy hours wandering up and down the edges of field and wood in the dead of a warm summer night, adding to my collection from the heavily scented brambles. But I got so I couldn't bear the thought of killing them any more just for my own arcane hobby.

You opened this thread because of the secret powers of the forest squirrel, by the way.

Oh, and that's just wrong.

[GT182]

Originally Posted by Eichhörnchen

That's a real esoteric hobby you've got there... top man How did you become involved in this, GT182?

I got into it by accident. And partly because my grandmother had one for over 25 years. Tho I only saw hers bloom once.

A friend gave me a cutting off her plant 7 years ago. No flowers until this year. I was literally shocked. 2 years ago a neighbor of hers gave me her huge plant. She had it for 16 years and was sick of messing around with it, even tho she had many flowers on if since she got it from a friend.

You see where I'm going with this? Garden shops don't sell these night blooming cereus plants. 99% of the time someone has to give you one or a cutting off of one for you to start. The other 1% are those that find them growing in the wild and get one that way.... which they eventually pass on as cuttings to start growing a plant, or giving away the whole plant they started.

No matter what, they are a tricky plant to get flowering. They can't be too wet, nor can they be too dry.