{"id":8258,"date":"2022-06-24T17:47:02","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T00:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/?p=8258"},"modified":"2022-06-27T15:23:46","modified_gmt":"2022-06-27T22:23:46","slug":"2022-cherry-red-cactus-flowers-now-opening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2022\/06\/24\/2022-cherry-red-cactus-flowers-now-opening\/","title":{"rendered":"2022 Cherry Red Cactus Flowers Now Opening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/20220624-cherry-red-cactus-flower.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/20220624-cherry-red-cactus-flower.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-8259\" srcset=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/20220624-cherry-red-cactus-flower.jpg 1200w, http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/20220624-cherry-red-cactus-flower-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/20220624-cherry-red-cactus-flower-1024x683.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/20220624-cherry-red-cactus-flower-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are several pots in our courtyard containing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sublimesucculents.com\/trichocereus-grandiflorus\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trichocereus Grandiflorus<\/a> cactus (a.k.a. Cherry Red or Torch Cactus). We have been watching a few of the flower buds getting ready to open and today the first ones were out.<\/p>\n<p>We acquired the &#8220;parent&#8221; cactus several years ago and at one point separated the &#8220;mother&#8221; from several &#8220;pups&#8221; which are now planted in their own pots in the courtyard. The image above is of a flower open on a &#8220;grandpup,&#8221; or a second-generation from the mother cactus who is still getting ready to open her flowers.<\/p>\n<p>Click on the image to enlarge. In addition to the one above, there were <a href=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/20220624-cherry-red-cactus-flower-duo.jpg\">two more<\/a> open on a first generation pup in another pot.<\/p>\n<p>Update: 06\/27 open flower . . .<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/20220627-cherry-red-flower.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/20220627-cherry-red-flower.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-8269\" srcset=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/20220627-cherry-red-flower.jpg 1200w, http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/20220627-cherry-red-flower-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/20220627-cherry-red-flower-1024x683.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/20220627-cherry-red-flower-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are several pots in our courtyard containing Trichocereus Grandiflorus cactus (a.k.a. Cherry Red or Torch Cactus). We have been watching a few of the flower&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70,72,17,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arizona","category-flowers","category-photography","category-retirement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8258"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8270,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8258\/revisions\/8270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}