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- Sun Apr 14, 2024 7:22 am
- Forum: News & Events
- Topic: North West Cactus Mart 2024 (Saturday 4th May)
- Replies: 18
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Re: North West Cactus Mart 2024 (Saturday 4th May)
There is parking right next door in free public car park. No need to cross the road with your tray of new plants.
- Mon Jan 09, 2023 9:04 am
- Forum: Aloes, Gasteria, Haworthia Etc (The Haworthia Society)
- Topic: Gasteria armstrongii
- Replies: 10
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Re: Gasteria armstrongii
:wink: Note you appear to have this in a shallow pot (or is it camera angle deception?). I am partial to a glazed shallow pot. Gasterias as well. However I have not tried a shallow pot with my gasteria because they usually have long roots and seem to need depth of pot. Looks a mature & healthy p...
- Wed Nov 16, 2022 7:41 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: forum and website
- Replies: 20
- Views: 1277
Re: forum and website
That’s impressive.
Well done Paul
Well done Paul
- Thu Sep 23, 2021 9:41 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Chelsea Flower show
- Replies: 2
- Views: 528
Re: Chelsea Flower show
Thanks that may we’ll be it, Fred, I have no way to re - wind where I am.
- Thu Sep 23, 2021 6:57 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Chelsea Flower show
- Replies: 2
- Views: 528
Chelsea Flower show
Anybody know who the Chelsea Flower Show exhibitor of some lovely succulents shown on TV was today?
- Thu Jul 22, 2021 7:24 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Sempervivum Question.
- Replies: 4
- Views: 799
Re: Sempervivum Question.
good thinking Phil
- Wed Jul 21, 2021 10:21 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Sempervivum Question.
- Replies: 4
- Views: 799
Re: Sempervivum Question, to chop or not to chop?
15A864C7-4093-40CE-A1E5-7462D32F59D7.jpeg These two photographs show my point a bit better. Before the flower shot up, the whole plant was a lovely white webby clump. The effort of flowering seems to have drained the rest of the plant. Then all the new offsets almost seemed to appear overnight. To ...
- Wed Jul 21, 2021 10:07 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Sempervivum Question.
- Replies: 4
- Views: 799
Sempervivum Question.
60844634-0363-48B2-BD12-444598082997.jpeg 53200AE0-669E-4A4C-BE6D-61DEBFBD0051.jpeg D1789741-49A6-4577-AE2A-310C66FD11B3.jpeg 3C77176C-D4AE-43AA-8921-BDF7DF5C12A0.jpeg These semps are a must if you have a small greenhouse which is full up! When the rosette goes into full scale flowering mode it can...
- Mon Jul 19, 2021 12:00 am
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Copiapoa roots
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1432
Re: Copiapoa roots
When the roots grow to take up that much space I wonder where the soil goes.
Perhaps the roots eat the soil?
Perhaps the roots eat the soil?
- Mon Apr 12, 2021 7:41 am
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Crassula arborescens not looking well
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2129
Re: Crassula arborescens not looking well
Unpot it & look at the roots. There may be mealy bug, if so wash off all the soil together with the mealies. Fresh soil with grit, no need for a vastly bigger pot. Brush off dead roots, you can be quite brutal, this is hard to kill. Not sure of the compost you are using, but it requires fair dra...