I have found Chinosol to be very useful to me as an extra preventative measure against damping off. One certainly does NOT need it in most cases, and many people do perfectly well with just soil sterilisation by heat, which is cheap and environmentally-friendly! One SHOULD be aware that Chinosol it ...

Ths thread has wondered off topic a bit (not a problem, but.. :wink: ): I was originally proposing an ORDER SHARE for Chinosol to reduce postage costs from Kakteen-Haage, and have edited this post just so we do not lose sight of this cost-saving idea! Dear Folks, I am about to order some more Chino...

One solution to these cold nights is to warm the greenhouse simply by moving the whole family to sleep out there: humans are quite good radiators! And the children enjoy the camping experience under the stars too...

(Please do not contact Social Services - I am just kidding...)

I have been tempted myself by Pseudolithos for a while now, but the seed is just so expensive!

Puts one off "playing around" with them, since one has to grit one's teeth to spend £1 per seed.

And there seems to be a "mystique" that they are hard to keep alive?

Good thought! This ties in nicely with my recent posting about what to grow for amateur sale: http://www.bcss.org.uk/foruma/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=152234 All I need to do is offer for sale the 100 20-year-old Copiapoa solaris I happen to have up my sleeve, and I can fund my prospective new greenhou...

Wow: thanks for all the comments! I knew the answers would all be different , but it sounded like fun to take a straw poll... The point about "guessing the next trend" is key, I agree. And as easy :wink: as picking Stocks and Shares, I imagine. I wonder whether we use the "Wants"...

Dear Folks, In order to help fund my cactus and succulent hobby [obsession? :roll: ], I would like to grow a few cacti to sell, as well as to simply enjoy. This must be quite a common way to earn " plant pocket money "? Generally, I have grown what takes my fancy and then given away or (on...

As Bill says, it is the TIME it takes to write comprehensive instructions/information that is the killer... I had in mind a germination table where there were columns for things like: Species (or often just Genus!) Seed lifetime estimate (by rough catalogies like "Long" and "Short&quo...

Is it a Coryphantha? I should know, having visited, but cacti and still not my strong suit...E