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- Fri Feb 16, 2024 7:14 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Kew's Tree of Life
- Replies: 7
- Views: 538
Re: Kew's Tree of Life
Thanks for bringing this interesting paper to our attention. I'm going to study it carefully...
- Fri Feb 16, 2024 5:49 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Unexpected Volunteer Seedling
- Replies: 4
- Views: 490
Unexpected Volunteer Seedling
I get plenty of volunteer seedlings in my Aylostera pots, and have even had Lophophoras, but this one is something unexpected Turbinicarpus valdezianus which I find very slow if you deliberately sow it... Anyway, it is now repotted in pumice. It has 2 heads, each about 5mm across IMG20240216150218.j...
- Thu Feb 15, 2024 5:13 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Sedum Palmers 'rayones'
- Replies: 13
- Views: 961
Re: Sedum Palmers 'rayones'
Another Mexican Sedum which has survived outdoors for the last 2 winters for me is Sedum kimnachii, even in Wales where the last 2 winters have been very et as well as cold.
- Wed Feb 14, 2024 5:16 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Kew's Tree of Life
- Replies: 7
- Views: 538
Re: Kew's Tree of Life
Get yourself a DNA sequencing machine and some supplies ?
More seriously, amateur lichenologists have for years had to deal with identifying species which can only be readily separated by chemical testing.
More seriously, amateur lichenologists have for years had to deal with identifying species which can only be readily separated by chemical testing.
- Tue Feb 13, 2024 4:32 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Kew's Tree of Life
- Replies: 7
- Views: 538
Re: Kew's Tree of Life
On the contrary Mat, I hope they will include many more taxa which are morphologically the same, but are genetically different....
- Tue Feb 13, 2024 4:31 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Hildewintera 2024
- Replies: 6
- Views: 283
Re: Hildewintera 2024
I saved some seed from my Hildewintera hybrids last year, and will be sowing them in March. I look forward to seeing the results...
- Thu Feb 01, 2024 6:46 pm
- Forum: Small Opuntias (Tephrocactus Study Group)
- Topic: Germination!
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1214
Re: Germination!
They seem to develop quickly!Cidermanrolls wrote: ↑Thu Feb 01, 2024 8:18 am Some of mine, three weeks after sowing. The platyacantha have come up really quickly. Note the three lobed aoracanthus.
These have had no pretreatment at all. I’ve got a few other pots with no germination in.
- Tue Jan 30, 2024 5:12 pm
- Forum: Small Opuntias (Tephrocactus Study Group)
- Topic: Germination!
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1214
Re: Germination!
What are you growing them in Rob? It looks like fruit and nut mix! Well done, anyway...
- Thu Jan 25, 2024 5:02 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Kewa salsoloides
- Replies: 3
- Views: 534
Re: Kewa salsoloides
Interesting! Thanks,
- Mon Jan 22, 2024 5:26 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Cacti Without Soil
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1309
Re: Cacti Without Soil
I've put some of my plants into pumice too, and they seem to mainly be doing OK. A word of warning though - if you put tiny seedlings straight into pumice, they will stay small for much longer than in regular compost. The danger of overwatering increases as plants get bigger and older, so I recommen...