[quote=Sue]I thought many hormone rooting powders contained fungicide, I know that the vitax one contains capstan.[/quote]

I'll bet it doesn't anymore. None of them seem to.

I'd be wary of overwintering - there are so many variables (plant species, age, soil; minimum temp, average temp, humidity, sunlight - plus several dozen more). What do you measure if they all die or all survive? Even then, I've seen 2 plants almost identical that seem to have been treated identical...

I'm not convinced the yellow flowering plant is Rebutia einsteinii/aureiflora 'Nidulans' or Sulcorebutia mentosa. S. mentosa nearly always have pinky purple flowers (I'm aware of a white form or two). No yellow one, as far as I know. R. einsteinii and its forms are quite uncommon - I've not come acr...

I'm a member of all sorts of groups, most of which are mailing list dinosaurs or yahoo/google groups. I really don't like the format and never contribute and rarely read the mails unless a topic title catches my eye. Aside from here, there's really only one English language forum that has enough tra...

Oreocereus ....... maybe ritteri, if those two heads are joined together, rather than a pair of seedlings.

[quote=Phil Hocking]I didn't know there were so many.[/quote]

That's the tip of the iceberg! There are enough names to fill a greenhouse.

And the spelling mistake has been corrected (don't understand how or which bits of the ICBN allow it) but famatinensis is used in the NCL.

No it's the right plant. Interesting!

They're described as growing to 4m tall, so I'd imagine they'd need to be pretty huge.

Looks a bit like an Impatiens.