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by Chris L
Mon Oct 16, 2023 10:42 pm
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: Help...need your pictures...for a new talk Solved
Replies: 7
Views: 874

Re: Help...need your pictures...for a new talk Solved

I have some pictures of Mesembs from Anglesey that you might be able to use - they would be from 2019 however.

I might be able to find some sedums as well from earlier in the year and 2019.

They are growing on coastal footpaths, quite close to Bull Bay.
by Chris L
Sun Oct 15, 2023 10:47 pm
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: 2023 North West Mesemb Show
Replies: 6
Views: 731

Re: 2023 North West Mesemb Show

(tu) Thank you one and all.
by Chris L
Sat Oct 07, 2023 2:27 pm
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: Nearly chucked this out earlier in the year
Replies: 2
Views: 412

Nearly chucked this out earlier in the year

I can be slow sometimes - this plant had gone brown and wrinkly and very poorly looking earlier in the year - looked very dry and sunburnt...... :roll: :roll: :roll:

Funny that it has now perked up and looks great... and even looks like it is going to flower.
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by Chris L
Sat Oct 07, 2023 2:24 pm
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: spam from Bill Darbons account
Replies: 7
Views: 600

Re: spam from Bill Darbons account

They occasionally pop up from time to time - I've had them with my connection with the branch websites. The pattern is invariably the same - they want help / amazon vouchers / an unspecified favour doing. They are all false spam emails that the spamee cannot do anything about. Best just to delete th...
by Chris L
Sat Sep 30, 2023 4:29 pm
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: Importing seeds from the EU to the UK
Replies: 33
Views: 3850

Re: Importing seeds from the EU to the UK

That's a lot of seeds to risk in one package PC/PP/customs not withstanding.

I'd be tempted (if it didn't make too much difference to the cost) to spread the risk over a few packages.

I used to order seeds from various places and all these new "rules" made me give up.
by Chris L
Wed Sep 27, 2023 8:40 pm
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: A strange leninghausii flower
Replies: 6
Views: 499

Re: A strange leninghausii flower

Maybe an offset will start growing from that point and somehow the flower has got there first.
by Chris L
Tue Sep 26, 2023 9:25 am
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: Poor roots on a large Aylostera
Replies: 22
Views: 1312

Re: Poor roots on a large Aylostera

I thought about watering a lot when I switched to pumice. We can water too often, but also too much at once.

We might drink four or five cups of tea a day, but to drink four or five large mugs might be too much.
by Chris L
Sat Sep 09, 2023 5:43 pm
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: Trying 100% pumice for the first time
Replies: 5
Views: 470

Re: Trying 100% pumice for the first time

My experience of growing in pumice - you need to make sure you've got ALL the old soil off the roots. Ideally any fine roots should go too. If I lost a plant invariably it was one that had soil and rotted roots in the pumice when I unpotted it. Pumice roots are different than John Innes roots.
by Chris L
Wed Aug 30, 2023 9:28 am
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: Moving home / greenhouse
Replies: 7
Views: 565

Re: Moving home / greenhouse

If you are transporting trays on the back seats..... use the seatbelts. I once nearly had a pile of 150 plants, pots, soil and labels in the footwells due to having to do an emergency stop.

I didn't because of said seatbelts.