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- Fri Dec 15, 2023 5:22 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Cleistocactus winteri ssp colademono
- Replies: 17
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Cleistocactus winteri ssp colademono
If you’ve had your copy of Cactus World this month you can’t have failed to notice the picture on the front cover of this splendid plant. It’s a very white spined and red flowered specimen compared to the various plants that I have grown from seed over the years. All the plants I have grown have bee...
- Fri Dec 15, 2023 2:25 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Log in problem to homepage
- Replies: 7
- Views: 613
Re: Log in problem to homepage
According to the seed list page when you eventually get there, the current list won’t be uploaded until Jan 2024
- Wed Dec 06, 2023 6:14 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: ID the bug
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1365
Re: ID the bug
Curious! Hopefully you have seen the last of them
- Wed Dec 06, 2023 2:57 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: ID the bug
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1365
Re: ID the bug
Doesn’t look like any kind of thrips nymph that I have seen, especially in that concentration
- Wed Dec 06, 2023 8:11 am
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: ID the bug
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1365
Re: ID the bug
Hi Tina
It’s difficult to tell from your photo but it looks suspiciously like boisduval scale to me.
It’s difficult to tell from your photo but it looks suspiciously like boisduval scale to me.
- Sat Dec 02, 2023 1:20 pm
- Forum: Monthly Photo Competitions
- Topic: December: Winter
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5495
December: Winter
So the topic for this month is Winter. Interpret it how you will!
To start you off here is Fouquieria splendens luxuriating in -5C today
To start you off here is Fouquieria splendens luxuriating in -5C today
- Sat Dec 02, 2023 9:32 am
- Forum: Monthly Photo Competitions
- Topic: November - night flowers
- Replies: 9
- Views: 6040
Re: November - night flowers
Thanks Darren, that’s kind !
They need surprisingly large pots, and very generous watering to grow well. They are also very easily damaged by thrips which stop them growing so look out for them !
They need surprisingly large pots, and very generous watering to grow well. They are also very easily damaged by thrips which stop them growing so look out for them !
- Mon Nov 20, 2023 4:47 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Killermite bug treatment
- Replies: 19
- Views: 2437
Re: Killermite bug treatment
The other thing to remember about Brevipalpus mites is they reproduce very slowly compared to Two spotted mite. This makes it hard to determine if you have successfully eradicated them
- Mon Nov 13, 2023 5:00 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: gymnocalycium spegazzinii var. unguispinum Q
- Replies: 2
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Re: gymnocalycium spegazzinii var. unguispinum Q
My speggazzinii seedlings are in individual 2 inch pots and one has flowered so the regular species certainly flowers at quite a small size
- Sun Nov 12, 2023 7:36 pm
- Forum: Monthly Photo Competitions
- Topic: November - night flowers
- Replies: 9
- Views: 6040
Re: November - night flowers
Peniocereus greggii. A properly nocturnal flower, they open around midnight and last until just after dawn. This was grown from seed and took about 20 years to start flowering.