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- Mon Apr 22, 2024 8:17 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Ferocactus buds
- Replies: 6
- Views: 235
Re: Ferocactus buds
I have just spotted signs of a bud on my Ferocactus electracanthus. I’ve had this plant since I was a schoolboy, I’m over 60 and this will be the first time it’s bloomed, I think. Maybe that is related to me putting it outdoors last summer, for the first time.
- Fri Mar 22, 2024 5:48 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Seed raising compost
- Replies: 10
- Views: 506
Re: Seed raising compost
I don’t add any feed before germination, but I also don’t use the baggy method so I can easily add a small amount of soluble feed to the water I spray the seedlings with, once germinated. I’ve seen people say that seedlings don’t need feeding, but my experience is that a small dose of fertiliser doe...
- Fri Mar 01, 2024 2:57 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Sulphur chips as slow release substrate acidifier?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 465
Re: Sulphur chips as slow release substrate acidifier?
I use sulphur in my cricket grounds work as a way to reduce the pH of our local natural soils, which sit on limestone. It does appear to work, though slowly over several years, but I’d be concerned about its use in pot-culture. Across a 1500m^2 cricket square I will apply 25kg each winter. That’s ab...
- Sat Feb 17, 2024 8:35 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Habitat plant?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 872
Re: Habitat plant?
Whatever the truth, the listing has gone.
- Sun Feb 11, 2024 8:12 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Look what these caught.2023 trawl.
- Replies: 11
- Views: 854
Re: Look what these caught.2023 trawl.
Can someone please explain the point of catching and killing harmless insects? Mealy bugs maybe so, but all others - no. We should be helping them thrive, not killing them. https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2022/may/uks-flying-insects-have-declined-60-in-20-years.html The male mealie bug flies…. ...
- Thu Feb 08, 2024 12:30 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Offensive "Moderator" on Facebook.
- Replies: 9
- Views: 852
Re: Offensive "Moderator" on Facebook.
I share your concern over this behaviour. It is clearly wrong. I also suspect the Facebook page is the something that causes a lot of angst in the committees of BCSS. There is lots of behaviour on there that risks bringing the society into disrepute. There was recently a very public discussion about...
- Wed Feb 07, 2024 9:01 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Looking for Echinopsis hybrids
- Replies: 6
- Views: 305
Re: Looking for Echinopsis hybrids
Hi Tegglet. I have a full set of Schicks, and many other hybrids, and sometimes sell on eBay. Germany was my primary source, pre Brexit so I have quite a lot of Wessner and Rheingold hybrids. Now, opportunities are few and far between other than eBay. Many of the hybrids offset rarely unless you beh...
- Thu Feb 01, 2024 8:18 am
- Forum: Small Opuntias (Tephrocactus Study Group)
- Topic: Germination!
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1198
Re: Germination!
Some of mine, three weeks after sowing. The platyacantha have come up really quickly. Note the three lobed aoracanthus.
These have had no pretreatment at all. I’ve got a few other pots with no germination in.
These have had no pretreatment at all. I’ve got a few other pots with no germination in.
- Tue Jan 23, 2024 5:49 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Pumice, semi-bulk supplier?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 783
Re: Pumice, semi-bulk supplier?
Cider, why do you need a phyto certificate for inert materials? You’d need to ask Boris that, but it counts as a soil and soils need to be shown to be phyto sanitary I presume. This caused cricket clubs in Ireland, north and south, real problems in the years immediately after Brexit. The cricket sq...
- Sat Jan 20, 2024 5:31 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Recording of The Cactus Hunters: Desire and Extinction in the Illicit Succulent Trade by Jared Margulies
- Replies: 9
- Views: 888
Re: Recording of The Cactus Hunters: Desire and Extinction in the Illicit Succulent Trade by Jared Margulies
Thanks Mat, I watched this end to end on a cold and wet winter afternoon. The presentation was very interesting but, I feel, selective. I’m sure the type of collector he talks about exists, but I share little in common with them. Maybe I am the odd man out? I’ve never felt the urge to own ‘real’ pla...