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by Conrad
Wed Mar 22, 2023 2:08 pm
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: First watering of the season?
Replies: 17
Views: 1271

Re: First watering of the season?

So anybody else given them a drink yet? I will tomorrow, buds on turb. valdezianus close to opening, lots of buds on stenocactus, lots of new spine growth. 21.5c in the polytunnel today.
by Conrad
Sun Jan 29, 2023 8:07 am
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: A peek under the covers.
Replies: 21
Views: 1102

Re: A peek under the covers.

I think the choice is between fleece with slightly higher temperature and high humidity/ very poor air circulation on one hand, and no fleece and lower temperatures/ better air circulation/lower humidity on the other. Given that the plants you've been losing look like botyrtis cinerea deaths, I bet ...
by Conrad
Tue Jan 24, 2023 12:54 pm
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: Blossfeldia
Replies: 10
Views: 859

Re: Blossfeldia

And presto!

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by Conrad
Tue Jan 03, 2023 8:46 pm
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: Blossfeldia
Replies: 10
Views: 859

Re: Blossfeldia

Those are doing really well! Faster than some of my seedlings of "easy" genera, which are also watered, but not heated, over winter (and seemed to have survived the cold snap without issues). Thanks, yeah they seem unusually happy, I've got quire lot of larger blossfeldia from seed, but t...
by Conrad
Tue Jan 03, 2023 8:42 pm
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: Blossfeldia
Replies: 10
Views: 859

Re: Blossfeldia

My Blossfeldia seedlings seem to be an RSM magnet, along with Lophophora. I will get rid of them one day, be it RSM, or the seedlings, I still haven't decided. The species should start differ one day, but geography takes part in separating species quite often, maybe this was the case here as well? ...
by Conrad
Tue Jan 03, 2023 9:40 am
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: Blossfeldia
Replies: 10
Views: 859

Re: Blossfeldia

Lovely. Will the cactus shed ever re-open? That was yours, wasn’t it? Yes that's me! Yes will definitely reopen in spring, I have literally 1000s of plants that need to be sold. Last 12 months have been very busy with moving house, getting married, moving entire collection of plants etc, so never g...
by Conrad
Mon Jan 02, 2023 9:52 pm
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: Blossfeldia
Replies: 10
Views: 859

Blossfeldia

I like growing Blossfeldias. These are about a year old I think, overwintering under lights, but would be fine not doing so. Matchhead for scale. Some starting to flower. These are apparently 4 different species, but perhaps a case of overexcited collectors? The first have mostly gone blind and look...
by Conrad
Sun Dec 25, 2022 9:37 am
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: Heat Mats
Replies: 2
Views: 306

Re: Heat Mats

I used to use heat mats for speeding up seed raising, and if you want to go that way, I used the ROOT!T heat mats, which were always very reliable. These days, I don't bother, instead I just box in my grow lights well, and the residual heat from the t8 flourescents I use keeps the temperature at aro...
by Conrad
Sat May 14, 2022 10:26 pm
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: Hose feeder
Replies: 16
Views: 883

Re: Hose feeder

Birchmeier aquamix, been using one for several years with no complaints. Will dose as low as 0.2%, though this seems a bit hit and miss, so I generally feed at the 0.5% setting which always works well. Fed about 1000s of cacti with it today, the thought of doing that with a watering can is horrifyi...
by Conrad
Sat May 14, 2022 9:01 pm
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: Hose feeder
Replies: 16
Views: 883

Re: Hose feeder

Birchmeier aquamix, been using one for several years with no complaints. Will dose as low as 0.2%, though this seems a bit hit and miss, so I generally feed at the 0.5% setting which always works well. Fed about 1000s of cacti with it today, the thought of doing that with a watering can is horrifyin...