Pregnant holiday cactus

[lblanchard]

2010-01-21schlumbergera
Originally uploaded by lb_philly.

I cross fertilized two cultivars, a white one and a red one, around Christmas time. The red-on-white doesn't appear to have done much, but white-on-red appears to have taken, and I have this swollen ovary. I read somewhere online that the fruit will become shocking pink and will take a year to ripen. When it's ripe, it's supposed to look like an overripe blueberry. I should be able to squash it and squirt the seeds out into a paper towel, cure for a day or so, then plant. Et voila -- two to four years later I should see flowers on the babies. I guess that means I can expect them some time between 2013 and 2015.