Their online shop is a bit confusing, but I think these are £9 per 1000 (L4 labels) + P&P. Could always ring them to check..... http://www.labelsnthings.co.uk/ Else, better still, I've just found this ..... £14.50 for 1000 post free from here (or £58 for 5000 if you want loads!!!) - see photo on...

I use "L4" "4 inch White Pot Labels" obtainable from horticultural wholesalers for about £10 per box of 1000.

Pretty rare, I think - it's happened to me just once out of many, many opuntia seedlings over the the years. It will be interesting to see how it develops.

Great stuff Stuart - keep up the propagation too. Cheers,

Chris,

Also, Wilkinson shops sell VWK2 in 750ml bottles for £7.99.

A clever marketing ploy? "Ultimate Bug Killer" sounds like a premium product, for a premium price, vs. "Vine Weevil" killer. As Ian says, both products are identical strength - 9.2g/l as a "suspo-emulsion" in a mixture of 1,2-propanediol and water: Bayer datasheets: htt...

Have a look at the extensive set of photos on the "Asclepiad Exhibition", a website produced by the late Chris Moore of Eltham Branch......

http://www.asclepiad-exhibition.org/index.html

Cheers,

Yes, Chris, this plant always causes discussion, and does well on the show bench. I think it may have split tri-chotomously first (laws of probability, one in a thousand chance?!) since the heads are so even. I have one example of this - a M. crucigera I grew from seed nearly 20 years ago, split tri...

Alec,

Here is a photo of Mick Cotter's plant at the Dartford Show in 2007, in about a 9 inch pan.


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Regards,

Yes, they are two of the many forms of M. elongata.

The central spined form used to be called M. echinaria in the past.