Oh man, I had a cactus for years and I could never get it to bloom, you're so lucky.
I do have a story for you though, a few years ago my wife used to go to see a friend who had a mini Xmas tree on her table in the dining room. her friend watered it and even gave it plant food hoping it would blossom and maybe even grow.
Months had gone by after Xmas, and my misses went around to the house and there it was still sitting in the middle of the table, nothing had changed, it was the same color, and size.
so my wife asked her what she was doing with it, and she replied, "if the thing would grow, I would put it in a bigger pot".
I went to pick my wife up, and she asked me to take a look at the Xmas tree on the table, I picked it up while she told me the story of her looking after it, for me to take the Xmas tree out of the pot to find it had made in china on the bottom and the thing was plastic :D :D :D
RE: Fields of gold and spines