Don't say sorry I'm sure people like a challenge

Having said that I don't "do" succulents but I'd say they all look like Crassulas but as there's some 1500 species in that family it's not all that helpful

a number of UK botanical institutions use these specifically for growing tree's and they work well for that purpose as far as I have seen one thing I was told though is that they do not work well for plants which produce a large tap root.

Ali Baba wrote:It might put you off if I showed you the very spindly plant that is under the flower

I doubt it you should see the tangled mess of my epicactus hybrids in the greenhouse it looks like a jungle thicket...

Now that is stunning! I don't currently grow any "other" succulents but that flower could really get me interested in giving it a go

Thanks Iann I will bear that in mind if I get anymore appearing on my seeds, the pots I sprayed are clear almost entirely of it now and the seeds are just breaking out of the seed coats

Thanks a lot for your reply Carl. Do I need to change the soil too? I guess I might as well to be careful. No other plants seem to have any residue of a similar manner on them so I am unsure if I should just wipe all the plants with alcohol anyway to keep them safe? What if spray the whole thing wi...

Hi FaeLLe, Your photos aren't quite clear enough to make out individual critters but from the look of it I would suspect Mealybug the Isopropyl Alcohol you have will do the trick (Methylated Spirits is an old favourite) make sure you dip a cotton bud in the alcohol and then carefully dab each Mealyb...

I've just found the following in an article by Maurice Williams from the BCSS journal 1994 which I think will be of much interest to you Habanerocat :wink: M. paucicostata FR597, LAU187 Discovered by Ritter at Rahuapampa, Dept. Aneash, some 450km south of the habitats of M. madisoniorum and at an al...

It looks like the kind of spiders-web type fungus that you occasionally get from the seed rather than the potting mix. I find it easy to remove with tweezers as it tends to come off without separating into lots of bits and, once removed, it doesn't tend to return. Thanks Wilk it seemed to radiate f...

Mealy bug will feed off anything if the need arises... I've been chasing the little sods round my home for the past year, it looks like I'm going to have to get rid of every possible plant they can eat in the house, so far I have found them on Cacti cuttings, Seed Potatoes, Fruit (in the bowl...), A...