{"id":6610,"date":"2022-06-24T17:29:11","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T00:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/?p=6610"},"modified":"2022-06-24T17:29:11","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T00:29:11","slug":"2022-cherry-red-cactus-flowers-now-opening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/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:\/\/vernabob.com\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/20220624-cherry-red-cactus-flower-duo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/20220624-cherry-red-cactus-flower-duo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6611\" srcset=\"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/20220624-cherry-red-cactus-flower-duo.jpg 1200w, http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/20220624-cherry-red-cactus-flower-duo-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/20220624-cherry-red-cactus-flower-duo-1024x683.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/20220624-cherry-red-cactus-flower-duo-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 one above is a pup with flowers open while the mother is still getting ready to open her flowers.<\/p>\n<p>Click on the image to enlarge.<\/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":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,39,3,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arizona","category-flowers","category-photography","category-retirement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6610"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6615,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6610\/revisions\/6615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}