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- Fri Jun 27, 2014 8:25 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Leaf-cutter bee
- Replies: 12
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Re: Leaf-cutter bee
...14 larva casings in a four and a half inch pot... That's a bit over the top. I had problems last year but nowhere as bad as your experience. I agree with other posts, they appear to have an acute sense of positioning or smell which enables them to find a pot that has been moved. Last year I shut...
- Fri Jun 27, 2014 8:31 am
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Mammillaria guelzowiana
- Replies: 8
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Re: Mammillaria guelzowiana
This is one of my favourite cacti, too. Enormous blooms for a Mammillaria and a prolific flowerer. Mine has just thrown up its second set of buds for this year. These have a reputation as a difficult species, prone to rot, so I have mine in a clay pot and water it sparingly. Its best display last ye...
- Fri Jun 27, 2014 8:23 am
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Perplexed by perplexa
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2294
Re: Perplexed by perplexa
I have similar marks on a few of my 3 year old Echinopsis seedlings and also a Cereus hildmannianus monstrose. It's a bit like a sooty deposit and appeared over the winter. It doesn't seem to be doing any harm but it is unsightly.
- Wed Jun 25, 2014 4:45 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Help!! Bee burrowing under cacti
- Replies: 16
- Views: 4646
Re: Help!! Bee burrowing under cacti
Well, 12 months on from the bee attacks and my Gymnocalycium calochlorum doesn't seem to have been adversely affected. I've had more blooms than ever from it this year. It has been repotted in the interim, though. All other "burrowed" cacti also appear to have been unaffected. Gymnocalyciu...
- Wed Jun 25, 2014 4:40 pm
- Forum: Introduce Yourself
- Topic: Hi There.
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1443
Re: Hi There.
Welcome Jules. You can't go far wrong with Rebutias. They are quite undemanding but they do need cool conditions in the winter in order to flower well the next year.
- Wed Jun 25, 2014 4:37 pm
- Forum: Introduce Yourself
- Topic: Just to say Hi
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1293
Re: Just to say Hi
...or they won't germinate.AllanA wrote: ...if you grow Lithops from seed they need cool conditions at night.
- Wed Jun 25, 2014 4:36 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Sunlight!
- Replies: 3
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Re: Sunlight!
A lovely display Peter. Yellow flowers are my favourites - probably because I am rather colour blind and some reds are hard to spot. Lilacs and pinks are ok too, and bright reds.
- Wed Jun 25, 2014 4:33 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Lithops query (2)
- Replies: 2
- Views: 565
Re: Lithops query (2)
I haven't been growing Lithops for long, but I always let them dry out completely between waterings. When they start to wrinkle I give them a thorough soaking so that water runs out of the bottom of the pot. I haven't killed any yet. I'm not sure what their natural rain cycle is, ie whether they get...
- Tue Jun 24, 2014 8:32 am
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: 3 Hildewinteras
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3217
Re: 3 Hildewinteras
Lovely flowers Sylvia. They certainly make a great display. Now have I got some room in my greenhouse...?
- Mon Jun 23, 2014 9:55 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Growing conditions for flowering advice
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1472
Re: Growing conditions for flowering advice
According to Google, Yes.iann wrote: Don't know what a Cinnamon Cactus is. Some sort of Opuntia?