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by DaveW
Tue Jul 17, 2007 4:32 pm
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: Prickly one!
Replies: 12
Views: 2944

Re: Prickly one!

"One of the best Idea's I saw was some one who just put a number in the label then altered the data base to suit the name change"

Until the computer crashes!:duh:

DaveW
by DaveW
Mon Jul 16, 2007 11:32 pm
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: Purple haze
Replies: 11
Views: 1983

Re: Purple haze

I agree about Notocactus herteri . Mine came as a pretty large plant from a collection being sold. I must have had it about 12 years and it never flowered until this year. My plant is about 7" high and I only managed to take a picture of the first flower to open as I was working when all the ot...
by DaveW
Mon Jul 16, 2007 10:15 pm
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: Prickly one!
Replies: 12
Views: 2944

Re: Prickly one!

The New Cactus Lexicon says:- The generic names Stenocactus and Echinofossulocactus have both been in use for this genus, but the latter name was originally based on plants referable to Echinocactus sensu stricto (Hunt 1980/CSJGB 42(4): 105-107) So evidently it is Stenocactus again until somebody di...
by DaveW
Mon Jul 16, 2007 7:53 pm
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: Greenhouse Show Off
Replies: 18
Views: 4138

Re: Greenhouse Show Off

Mine's bigger than yours Nick! Mine's about 20ft long and up into the greenhouse roof. It did flower in a previous incarnation in my other greenhouse in the past when only around 3'-6" long, but I missed the flower and only noticed after it had closed. However my flowering plant is planted in t...
by DaveW
Mon Jul 16, 2007 5:35 pm
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: First casualty
Replies: 13
Views: 2598

Re: First casualty

Your lucky if you have only lost a couple, I must have lost a hundred or more since the 1960's in bad winters not heating the greenhouse. Plants often survive the winter OK but die when you first start to water again, but maybe that's just because they have been slowly rotting over winter. As long a...
by DaveW
Mon Jul 16, 2007 12:35 pm
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: Seed ID (if at all possible...)
Replies: 27
Views: 3975

Re: Seed ID (if at all possible...)

"Airampoa" types:-

[attachment 5627 airampoa.jpg]

Pads about 1.5" - 2" long.

DaveW
by DaveW
Mon Jul 16, 2007 12:31 pm
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: Seed ID (if at all possible...)
Replies: 27
Views: 3975

Re: Seed ID (if at all possible...)

The seed may be all the same species. If you are lucky they may turn out to be the smaller growing Tephrocactus or the miniature flat padded ones that used to be known as Airampoa's I could never flower these at one time but now they are stuck on the top shelf in the greenhouse out of the way many n...
by DaveW
Mon Jul 16, 2007 12:09 pm
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: The rest of my collection and some new additions
Replies: 14
Views: 3033

Re: The rest of my collection and some new additions

I have just turned up two AWC lists Phil, but they are rather incomplete. The most comprehensive one just lists Eriosyce which I was mainly interested in. The other is a very rudimentary earlier one which lists other genera but not in much detail. I may have other lists on disk but I recently change...
by DaveW
Mon Jul 16, 2007 11:39 am
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: Mammillaria lenta
Replies: 3
Views: 1177

Re: Mammillaria lenta

Sorry for the delay in reply Mathew, I was waiting until I went into the greenhouse to try it. Yes it is a soft spined Mamm.

DaveW
by DaveW
Mon Jul 16, 2007 11:36 am
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: Seed ID (if at all possible...)
Replies: 27
Views: 3975

Re: Seed ID (if at all possible...)

Definitely Opuntia seed and stone hard! I would give them a good soaking. Chinosol is only a disinfectant and I believe you can use a weak solution of Milton used for cleaning babies feeding bottles to sterilise seed, but I would not use it on seedlings or the soil. The reason some people sterilise ...