Tina you will have to be patient, as Diane advised me on this forum a couple of years ago. I bought the plant as a grafted seedling when my daughter was about 3. There is now nothing left of the stock apart from roots and my daughter will be 15 in September! :shock: I have some nice little seedlings...

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Diameter this morning 21cm (15cm for the inner petaloid segments)
The scent fills the entire greenhouse

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This seedling which I have ad for a fair few years finally obliged by flowering for the first time on several occasion last year, but every time I missed the flower opening. Not so this year, encouraged to open by the very hot humid weather here today http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/hh319/alanbry...

This is by far the largest flower in my greenhouse at the moment, even bigger than my fancy double Begonia...
Just beginning to open its deliciously scented night blooming flower



Epiphyllum x cooperi (6pm)

Lovely! How tall is that plant Tony?

Mine seem to grow almost all year apart from late spring early summer (i.e this time of year) when they just tick over, producing a few spines but no new leaves. I have noticed that freshly rooted cuttings seem to start into growth when they are well rooted though.

Apparently (I read it on the net somewhere...) WFT are most strongly attracted to sticky traps in flourescent pink!
I've never seen pink sticky traps, so I guess you would have to make your own...

If you use JI compost for your lime lovers that wil have enough lime in it, so you can still use rainwater.

No I havent managed to eradicate mine, however I find they attack certain plants predictably and just spraying those plants when numbers build up prevents too much in the way of damage. Currently Opuntioids and Astrophytum caput-medusae seem to be the favourites, plus a couple of shrubby mesembs :ev...