{"id":1981,"date":"2012-09-04T22:23:19","date_gmt":"2012-09-05T02:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/?p=1981"},"modified":"2012-09-04T22:23:19","modified_gmt":"2012-09-05T02:23:19","slug":"blooming-weirdness-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/2012\/09\/04\/blooming-weirdness-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Blooming Weirdness Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I posted last year about the flower on our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/2011\/08\/05\/cereus-matters\/\" target=\"_blank\">night-blooming cereus<\/a> plant, which was open for less than 24 hours.\u00a0 It bloomed again this year, on almost the same date.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a picture from late June, when we had just noticed that a flower was growing:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/newcereus.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1982\" title=\"newcereus\" src=\"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/newcereus.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"393\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/newcereus.jpg 393w, https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/newcereus-294x300.jpg 294w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 393px) 100vw, 393px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here is the flower one day before blooming (July 7):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/newcereus2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1983\" title=\"newcereus2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/newcereus2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/newcereus2.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/newcereus2-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/newcereus3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1984\" title=\"newcereus3\" src=\"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/newcereus3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"474\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/newcereus3.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/newcereus3-300x284.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It began to open in the early evening of July 8:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/newcereus4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1985\" title=\"newcereus4\" src=\"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/newcereus4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/newcereus4.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/newcereus4-300x247.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And here it is fully open in the late evening:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/newcereus5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1986\" title=\"newcereus5\" src=\"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/newcereus5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/newcereus5.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/newcereus5-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The following morning it was still open:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/newcereus6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1987\" title=\"newcereus6\" src=\"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/newcereus6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/newcereus6.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/newcereus6-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/newcereus7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1988\" title=\"newcereus7\" src=\"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/newcereus7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"437\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/newcereus7.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/newcereus7-300x262.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Later in the day it had closed up and started to fall off.\u00a0 Until next year&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I posted last year about the flower on our night-blooming cereus plant, which was open for less than 24 hours.\u00a0 It bloomed again this year, on almost the same date. Here is a picture from late June, when we had just noticed that a flower was growing: Here is the flower one day before blooming &#8230; <a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/2012\/09\/04\/blooming-weirdness-again\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1981"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1981"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1989,"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1981\/revisions\/1989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}