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- Thu Jul 19, 2018 8:44 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Neem spray query
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2919
Re: Neem spray query
I have used it as a spray without any problems.
- Tue Jul 03, 2018 10:27 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: My battle with the bug
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3837
Re: My battle with the bug
Thanks for the comments. Here's the big tray: https://i.imgur.com/7Zssiwy.jpg An epithelantha showing new roots: https://i.imgur.com/cWupDwy.jpg And a small tray: https://i.imgur.com/vOBFJT3.jpg Does anyone have any viewson the efficacy or otherwise of meths and if I were to use something else to tr...
- Mon Jul 02, 2018 11:40 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: My battle with the bug
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3837
My battle with the bug
For a few years my small cacti collection (low hundreds) was root mealybug (RMB) free till I made the bad mistake of failing to quarantine a plant I bought from a well known grower which was plainly RMB infested. I should have sent it back or not been lazy. Due to lack of vigilance on my part over t...
- Thu Mar 22, 2018 6:07 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Need expert advice on seedlings please
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1792
Re: Need expert advice on seedlings please
I would put them into the baggies as moss will not develop so quickly and will not kill them in any event. The more difficult question is where to leave them so that they get enough light but not too much. Too little light and they get etiolated and too much and they scorch. Better too little than t...
- Wed Oct 11, 2017 10:46 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: My first cactus
- Replies: 17
- Views: 4360
Re: My first cactus
Doesn't look like a cactus to me, unless it's a DISCOcactus perhaps??
- Thu Jun 22, 2017 12:16 am
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: My (non-flowering) Echinocerei
- Replies: 63
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Re: My (non-flowering) Echinocerei
Another year has gone by and the same frustrations prevail. My cold greenhouse got down to about -5c this winter, enough to cut back my Iochroma Australis to ground level but not enough to kill any cacti. The usual Echinocerei have flowered: Gentryi Polyacanthus Salm- Dyckianus Chloranthus Morricall...
- Wed Jun 21, 2017 11:48 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Cumulopuntia ?? ID
- Replies: 5
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- Wed Jun 21, 2017 11:42 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Optimal and Maximum Temperature for Cacti and Succulents?
- Replies: 15
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Re: Optimal and Maximum Temperature for Cacti and Succulents?
I don't know about all this fancy science, I just judge by what I see and I am convinced that my cacti grow better when the temperature is HOT. By this I mean 35c plus. I was away last week when we had hot weather and I am convinced that growth was better than at any time this year. Of course, it co...
- Tue Feb 07, 2017 9:20 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: New to the forum Solved
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3235
Re: New to the forum Solved
In my cold greenhouse I seem to be able to get away with -5c. I suspect that more species than not can cope with a couple of degrees of frost??
Not wishing to be controversial (?) North American species are generally more interesting and cold hardy than many of their Southern counterparts.
Not wishing to be controversial (?) North American species are generally more interesting and cold hardy than many of their Southern counterparts.
- Sun Nov 06, 2016 11:00 am
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Winter growing mesembs
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1144
Winter growing mesembs
I have a number of 1 and 2 year old winter growing mesembs of various species. At present they are in my (just) frost-free greenhouse which I visit relatively infrequently in winter months. I have a south facing windowsill indoors in a centrally heated room. Would I be better off moving the winter g...