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- Mon May 05, 2014 7:58 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: How to get Rebutia Muscula to flower well?
- Replies: 16
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Re: How to get Rebutia Muscula to flower well?
You could build a kind of box in the Winter. Three sides, a bit higher than the plant,open against the window.In that way you´ll get temps in the box five to eight degrees lower than in the room,taking advantage of the cold from the window. Has worked for me. this has been a subject in earlier posts
- Mon May 05, 2014 5:11 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Spiny
- Replies: 17
- Views: 4475
Re: Spiny
The picture of Mark´s grafted plant is the spitting image of what my plants look like. Great! now I don´t have to wrestle with putting on my own photos, all the better since I take lousy pictures...
- Thu May 01, 2014 12:44 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Spiny
- Replies: 17
- Views: 4475
Re: Spiny
i´m wondering about that speg. v.horizonthalonius..I have these myself,one bought from Andreas Wessner and three that I´ve grown from seed and they all have very short spines, looking like small claws, the oldest one is grass green, the others a bit darker. The seed was bought from two different sou...
- Sun Apr 13, 2014 8:55 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Mammillaria plumosa - peat problem
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3170
Re: Mammillaria plumosa - peat problem
I´ve visited some of these HUGE nurseries in Holland and Spain and I wouldn´t call them cacti specialists, they are plant growers and most of the people working in these factories have very vague ideas about what they are growing, the important thing is that they grow fast. Since they deliver plants...
- Mon Apr 07, 2014 7:44 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Cactus Explorer 11
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2014
Re: Cactus Explorer 11
Thanks Phil!!! That did it,I now have issue nr 11!
- Mon Apr 07, 2014 5:13 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Cactus Explorer 11
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2014
Re: Cactus Explorer 11
Hi Dave ! I´ve had no problems with opening the earlier issues, the problem now is that no 11 does not show up at all, the list stops at no 10? I´ll wait a couple of Days more, if not then I´ll take Majas offer.( Thanks Maja!)
- Sun Apr 06, 2014 7:39 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Cactus Explorer 11
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2014
Re: Cactus Explorer 11
Not yet on my PC ?
- Sun Jan 26, 2014 9:18 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Identifying plants
- Replies: 18
- Views: 5092
Re: Identifying plants
Another good book is The Illustrated Encyclopedia of cacti by Glass&Innes,also to be found as a second hand book. The problem with books are that many pictures of plants are shot in the envirement where they grow and are not in the least looking as the plants we know from cultivation. But buy a ...
- Wed Jan 22, 2014 1:24 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: New non-commercial web site
- Replies: 21
- Views: 4729
Re: New non-commercial web site
What a beautiful picture gallery! Hope your health will let you continue this splendid feat!
- Mon Jan 13, 2014 8:17 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: BCSS seeds
- Replies: 21
- Views: 6161
Re: BCSS seeds
I got my seed order arriving today,got all of them except for three(1soldout-2 not delivered to the dispenser)and no substitutes but that´s no big deal,I´m plesaed with what I got.