Anyways, I have had this succulent for the past ten years. People call it a Christmas Cactus, I refuse to belittle such a hardy plant by associating it with a holiday that has been so over-commercialized and... ugh, I am sure there will also be a posting about that one from me later too. Where was I ? ... Oh the plant. It gets it's name because it blooms twice a year: once around Christmas and then once around Easter. Now, this part confuses me. Why at these times does it decide to bloom? The daylight hours are different, the temperature is different and it's not a six month cycle or anything like that, that does make sense. The only real similarity between the two times of the year is that there is a Christian holiday within the blooming phases.
Now the reason for all that back story above is that a weird thing happened to my christian cactus this year. (That's what I call it, by the way. Makes more sense to me) As usual, it put up with the normal abuse and neglect that all my poor plants endure all year. But, these past two blooming phases came and went without a single flower. This has never happened to this particular plant in the ten years I have been tormenting it.
All I can think is that my succulent has lost faith.
