Friday, May 15, 2015

Cereus Night Blooming Cactus


My smaller Cereus cactus bloomed the other night. I was hoping to put a webcam attached to a Raspberry Pi computer to time lapse photograph it opening and closing during the night. The night the bloom opened I only got the camera set up late in the morning so the bloom pod had already mostly closed.

I did capture a small about of video of it for several hours which I need to figure out how to edit and put on YouTube.

Interesting enough it looks like amazon.com sells seeds for a blue variety of this cactus.

See my previous posts about this cactus here:
http://poppular.blogspot.com/2009/03/night-flower-of-cactus.html

http://poppular.blogspot.com/2009/07/night-flower-of-cereus-cactus.html

http://poppular.blogspot.com/2013/08/cactus-ready-to-bloom.html

http://poppular.blogspot.com/2012/10/the-cereus-night-blooming-cactus.html

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