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by Diane
Fri Feb 16, 2024 3:20 pm
Forum: Aloes, Gasteria, Haworthia Etc (The Haworthia Society)
Topic: Haworthia first aid advice required.
Replies: 7
Views: 782

Re: Haworthia first aid advice required.

I suspect it is a truncata hybrid, rather than the true species which doesn’t usually offset as prolifically, and Tony’s advice is good. I find that Haworthias root very readily in moler clay granules, so if you have that to hand maybe give it a go.
by Diane
Tue Feb 13, 2024 11:30 am
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: Hildewintera 2024
Replies: 6
Views: 345

Re: Hildewintera 2024

Beautiful!
by Diane
Sun Jan 28, 2024 7:37 pm
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: Insect ID please
Replies: 6
Views: 664

Re: Insect ID please

Agree with Thrips - they love yellow mesemb flowers, and can run very fast. Unfortunately there are no current insecticides which will eliminate them, alas. The life cycle is that eggs are laid in the soil, and the young nymphs which are usually yellow, hatch out and feed on young growth, resulting ...
by Diane
Wed Nov 22, 2023 2:08 pm
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: Dobbies latest stapelia plant?
Replies: 5
Views: 1379

Re: Dobbies latest stapelia plant?

Scented flowers? Odoriferous more like! You’ll only know when it flowers.
by Diane
Fri Nov 17, 2023 9:35 am
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: First time for flowers- Conophytum
Replies: 6
Views: 1564

Re: First time for flowers- Conophytum

Ah, OK! Well done!
by Diane
Thu Nov 16, 2023 9:19 pm
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: First time for flowers- Conophytum
Replies: 6
Views: 1564

Re: First time for flowers- Conophytum

Congratulations on your first flowering! However it doesn’t look like C. comptonii (quite a rare species) which would normally have straw yellow flowers. Hopefully someone else might be able to identify it.
by Diane
Thu Nov 16, 2023 5:39 pm
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: Baby Lithops
Replies: 14
Views: 1282

Re: Baby Lithops

Definitely Conophytums, and one guess would be C. fulleri, but a bit difficult to say, without flowers.
by Diane
Sun Nov 12, 2023 12:38 pm
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: when mice get peckish- mesembs
Replies: 12
Views: 1174

Re: when mice get peckish

Oh dear, Tina! At least they will produce new leaves next year. I think your ID is Lithops ‘Hammeruby’ the red form of L. meyeri.
by Diane
Tue Oct 31, 2023 2:27 pm
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: Stapeliad thread
Replies: 309
Views: 57210

Re: Stapeliad thread

:woho: :woho: I have at last managed to flower a Pseudolithos migiurtinus !,I’m not sure where I obtained this one, as I’ve had a few over the last few years (which have collapsed on me at various times), but I think I acquired this one at a cactus mart about 4 or 5 years ago. It had to be rerooted ...