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by MikeT
Tue Feb 20, 2024 5:36 pm
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: Keeping my plants safe from the cats
Replies: 7
Views: 524

Re: Keeping my plants safe from the cats

For most cacti and succulents it would need to be on a sunny windowsill; the positioning in some of the photos in the link would only be suitable for plants tolerating low light levels. The drawback of a sunny windowsill is that temperatures inside a confined glass container could get way too hot in...
by MikeT
Mon Feb 12, 2024 8:22 pm
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: Keeping my plants safe from the cats
Replies: 7
Views: 524

Re: Keeping my plants safe from the cats

One option is to put the plants (in their pots) in a window box. If they are packed reasonably tightly, they won't get knocked over. If there aren't enough to pack tightly and hold each other up, then you need to get some more plants along with your window box.
by MikeT
Thu Feb 08, 2024 5:33 pm
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: old BCSS seed distribution collection numbers
Replies: 1
Views: 190

old BCSS seed distribution collection numbers

I'm sure this has been discussed before, but I can't find the thread, so hoping someone can point me in the right direction. In previous years the BCSS seed distribution often had collection numbers but with no further detail given on the printed list. I think there was a list somewhere online givin...
by MikeT
Mon Jan 22, 2024 9:11 pm
Forum: Monthly Photo Competitions
Topic: January: Graphic
Replies: 19
Views: 3617

Re: January: Graphic

I finally got round to sorting out some geometrical shots. In no particular order:
Rebutia.JPG
Mamm hahniana_.JPG
Mamm vaupelii.JPG
Mamm vaupelii.JPG (123.2 KiB) Viewed 1513 times
Opuntia.JPG
filifera.JPG
imbricata.JPG
Agave_filifera.JPG
Fero_ham.JPG
Echinocactus grusonii Jun03.JPG
by MikeT
Sat Jan 20, 2024 10:08 am
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: Ecehveria Maria worries
Replies: 6
Views: 942

Re: Ecehveria Maria worries

I'd echo the previous comments. I have several forms of Echeveria agavoides, and they are all hardy to at least a few degrees of frost, if dry. E, agavoides is quite fast growing, I'd give this a larger pot (I'd wait for spring, though I know some are happy to repot in winter) and definitely more li...
by MikeT
Tue Jan 16, 2024 9:14 am
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: Seed trays of mixed seedlings Solved
Replies: 5
Views: 964

Re: Seed trays of mixed seedlings Solved

I’ve always removed the lids on seed trays when the newly emerged seedlings are five days old and sprayed them daily thereafter. What do you with mixed species/varieties which germinate at different times? Keep the lids on until they have all germinated? I’d be grateful for advice thanks. I use the...
by MikeT
Fri Jan 05, 2024 9:17 am
Forum: Introduce Yourself
Topic: Hi from South Sheffield
Replies: 4
Views: 1342

Re: Hi from South Sheffield

Hi Spen You'll be very welcome at Sheffield branch; our first meeting of the year is in a week's time, Friday 12th. Full details on the Sheffield Branch website events page . No admission charge. There will be plants for sale. We have a non-competitive table show each month, with 2 categories, first...
by MikeT
Wed Nov 22, 2023 10:32 am
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: Autumn Cactus and Succulent Show at RHS Harlow Carr 23/9/2023 - the photographs
Replies: 54
Views: 8167

Re: Autumn Cactus and Succulent Show at RHS Harlow Carr 23/9/2023 - the photographs

You’ve done a great job Terry. Thank you so much. I'll second Mike's response. Proof that great Mike's think alike, perhaps? :wink: Regarding the third place in the Novice succulent class, I spoke to the owner and her mother, the plant which does look like Conophytum (not Gibbaeum) regale, should n...
by MikeT
Wed Nov 15, 2023 1:45 pm
Forum: Aloes, Gasteria, Haworthia Etc (The Haworthia Society)
Topic: Todays photo
Replies: 225
Views: 41650

Re: Todays photo

edds wrote: Wed Nov 15, 2023 7:53 am Very nice! Though I prefer Haworthia longjohnsilveria!!! :lol:
But under copyright, so only pirated copies available :sad:
by MikeT
Mon Nov 13, 2023 4:23 pm
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: The Autumn Cactus and Succulent Show at RHS Harlow Carr on 23 September 2023 - the photographs thread not the politics
Replies: 64
Views: 5439

Re: The Autumn Cactus and Succulent Show at RHS Harlow Carr on 23 September 2023 - the photographs thread not the politi

At Harlow Carr, the organisers had a job fitting everything in. The show was spread over 2 different rooms, so that didn't help, and it turned out that the available table space was less than ideal, so plants were a bit squashed together. There are bound to be glitches for the first time at a new ve...