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Aiko wrote: ↑Mon Oct 21, 2019 9:43 pm Thanks for the advice. The book itself has a very fair price. The postage costs is making it less interesting, as postage costs tend to do sometimes...
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Did you try Keith's Cactus Books? He has new copies and a second hand in stock, and I am sure would be fair on post to the Netherlands?

Taxonomy apart, this is a book which comments on species in terms of general notes, habitat, distribution variability, cultivation etc and has brilliant combination of maps, pics of cacti in habitat pics often multiple in the page, plus much more. I can not recommend it more highly. You would defini...

I'm not the best person to answer the question, but all the information I have read suggests Weingartia are frost-tolerant to a greater or lesser degree. This might differ from what you have read, but my reading is supported by the indication that the habitat is quite dry high altitude. And certainl...

I looked at my records of Mammillaria sowings over a couple of years, the summary was that (apart from some which didn't germinate at all) a few only showed first germination after 20 days. Of the rest, about half germinated within 10 days and the other half 11-20 days. So I would start to worry onl...

A little update, here are my Blossfeldia seedlings from this year's sowings. Yours look a little more advanced than mine. But at least I do have results this year (from 2 out of three "variety"/species sowings. I did find them far slower, though, than the Strombocactus I sowed at the same...

For reasons not immediately apparent to me, I have had a couple of emails lately pointing me to some research on cactus germination (seed photoblastism, and Turbinicarpus germination). Neither of these is a new report. Whilst the first came up with some unsurprising reults, such as taller plants pro...

One factor not mentioned so far is heating method.

If gas or (God forbid) paraffin, then you will have a humidity issue. With electric heating I don't foresee a big problem, and have never had one.

I tried to engage an espouser of the environmental reasoning for using clay but got nowhere. Cheers David Lambie I'm not sure the reason for avoiding plastic is a mystery. They are not all recyclable in the many manifestations as I know them, and when people are in doubt they just bung them in gene...

Lists aside (and I will definitely use that Mesa one but not for cultivation hints) , germination of most things happens fairly well at most temperatures you're likely to pick. Over the years I've fiddled with many seed-raising variables but have never much bothered with temperature. If I had to be...

Most of this conversation has gone over my head. Does it mean one of you is actually going to compile a list with the answers to the original question? If yes thanks because a newbie like me needs all the help they can get. I've done my best, Nick. A guide by genus - cacti, mesembs and other succul...

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