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- Sun Apr 17, 2022 4:53 am
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Gymno friedrichii
- Replies: 6
- Views: 575
Re: Gymno friedrichii
How did you try? I have some seeds "on hold" for a year or so now, so maybe I will start eliminating possible failure paths... I tried in a baggy, 10-15C at night, 25-30C during the day. I know these are supposed to be more 'tropical', so maybe they like it even warmer? Or the quality of ...
- Sat Apr 16, 2022 5:42 am
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Gymno friedrichii
- Replies: 6
- Views: 575
Gymno friedrichii
The much coveted 'Aqua Dulce' form (LB2178). The seem very easy and quick to grow, and not stingy with flowers either from the looks of it. Having said that, I still failed miserably at germinating even a single seed so I got a few 1-cm-diam seedlings instead (which have tripled in size over the pas...
- Tue Apr 05, 2022 4:24 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Recommendations, haworthia seeds zero germination
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1344
Re: Recommendations, haworthia seeds zero germination
The few times I've tried Haworthia from seed I've treated them similar to Lithops seed (in a baggie with night-day variations between 5-10C at night and maybe 20-25C during the day). I got some decent results with that approach.
- Sat Apr 02, 2022 6:53 am
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Didymaotus?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1254
Re: Didymaotus?
Show time! Next year's offerings are already visible, too.
- Sun Mar 27, 2022 6:29 am
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: White-sloanea crassa seedlings
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1305
Re: White-sloanea crassa seedlings
I have grown this from seed in the last 2 or 3 years, with limited success. The first lot of seeds came from a Thai seller on eBay, about 3 years ago. Germination was reasonable, but not 100%, and they were sown in a totally mineral medium, in baggies, and kept in a propagator at a temp of 25°+. I ...
- Fri Feb 18, 2022 6:07 am
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Didymaotus?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1254
Re: Didymaotus?
Update: the flowers are finally getting ready to show, after almost a year in waiting.
- Tue Feb 08, 2022 1:55 am
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Aloe variegata (Dikkop Flats)
- Replies: 31
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Re: Aloe variegata (Dikkop Flats)
I also have a Dikkop Flats variegata, grown from seed a while ago (Mesa Garden if I recall correctly). I got the locality specifically because Dikkop = tadpole in Dutch (and likely Afrikaans as well), which made me imagine them growing surrounded by frog ponds.
- Mon Dec 06, 2021 5:31 am
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Chlorotic Diplosoma
- Replies: 6
- Views: 798
Re: Chlorotic Diplosoma
Did you keep them going over the summer months? If so, they may not have been overly happy with the higher summer temperatures. My own plant dies back in Spring and does a great job mimicking a dried out husk for 6 months out of the year. I thought it was gone for sure this year, but it just popped ...
- Wed Nov 24, 2021 8:56 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Bulbine again
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1080
Re: Bulbine again
I know how you feel. I lost all my Bulbine bruynsii I sowed myself. They were getting of blooming age and were crowding the pot, so I had to repot them in August. The corns / bulbs looked fine (they are strangly shaped, by the way!), but they never woke up again after repotting. They were all gone ...
- Wed Nov 24, 2021 6:46 am
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Bulbine again
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1080
Bulbine again
My regularly scheduled Bulbine promotion thread :) Plenty of small succulent Bulbine species to choose from, and with a good variety of shapes and sizes. And they fold away for easy storing during the summer... Bulbine mesembryanthoides, probably the most well known species. I usually keep them tick...