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- Wed Jun 26, 2019 11:08 am
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: First Frailea flower open this year
- Replies: 23
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Re: First Frailea flower open this year
duly noted not to buy that genus. Here's something to add to temptation - "Cacti are very sexual plants." Hmm. Anyway to the point, re seed setting this author is quite clear that Frailea set seed copiously UNLESS the flower opens, in which case no seed can be expected. I hadn't heard thi...
- Wed Jun 26, 2019 10:45 am
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Huntington and imports
- Replies: 16
- Views: 4653
Re: Huntington and imports
Thanks very much Tony for that clarification/reminder. Interesting if Stuart still managed to obtain plants and how, later, not that I have any personal interest in that.
- Wed Jun 26, 2019 9:54 am
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Huntington and imports
- Replies: 16
- Views: 4653
Re: Huntington and imports
Is my memory right that the ISI list was published regularly in the BCSS journal and there was a UK person through whom plants could be ordered? But this was discontinued some time ago?
- Mon Jun 24, 2019 1:20 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Opuntia seeds - update.
- Replies: 15
- Views: 4086
- Mon Jun 24, 2019 12:47 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Taxonomy of cacti
- Replies: 19
- Views: 5577
Re: Taxonomy of cacti
For the purpose of BCSS publications, the Society tends to stick with the nomenclature used in the "New Cactus Lexicon" and the "Illustrated Handbook of Succulent Plants", but in some respects these are becoming increasingly outdated as new information, particularly from DNA seq...
- Mon Jun 24, 2019 10:18 am
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Opuntia seeds - update.
- Replies: 15
- Views: 4086
Re: Opuntia seeds - update.
Tephros etc look a very interesting bunch, for laters :) Over the last three years I have had some, but not a lot of, success in germination Tephrocactus seed. Nothing I tried seemed to make much difference to poor germination rates. This year I just sowed and treated as normal, and I had fair resu...
- Sun Jun 23, 2019 12:38 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: puna clavaroides
- Replies: 23
- Views: 6028
- Sun Jun 23, 2019 11:05 am
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: puna clavaroides
- Replies: 23
- Views: 6028
Re: puna clavaroides
Two weeks on and the flower opens.
Puny achievement, but after 40 years .......
Puny achievement, but after 40 years .......
- Sun Jun 23, 2019 9:36 am
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Will the real.....?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1601
Re: Will the real.....?
but life's not perfect and I like them both. Very nice! How long since you sowed them ? Well I think they were sown in 2016 as that's the only record I have of sowing L. pugionacantha. But my record doesn't (uncharacteristically) show the variety so I am not 100% sure, especially as it shows I had ...
- Sat Jun 22, 2019 12:45 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Will the real.....?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1601
Will the real.....?
Two seedlings from same packet, labelled Lobivia pugionacantha v salitrensis WR636, showing very different flower colours this morning, on their first (simultaneous) blooming. Draw your own conclusions, but life's not perfect and I like them both.