This was my plant but I'm sure I unfortunately never got round to propagating it before it died last year viewtopic.php?t=173183

Lovely plants Ross, do you protect them from rain over the winter? I find that rot is the main problem with these. No they're completely unprotected, just left as they are. I've got a white flowered one out the back, facing the beach, that's probably about twenty years old now. All still in plastic...

iann wrote: ↑Thu May 18, 2023 2:42 pm Not cheap, is it? Didn't the Tesco stuff used to be about 20l for a fiver? Or less?

That sounds about right Ian!

I've got a few that have just sat in pots in the front garden for the past five years or so. They seem happy and are flowering just now. Very vibrant colours

That's a lovely plant Ernie and nice light coloured flowers

Lovely flowers Those creamy brown flowers are quite appealing!

Those are lovely clean plants, Ross! Yes there are some red cultivars around, I have a couple of A. asterias with red flowers and an A. Capricorne (or senilis, can’t remember!) with red flowers, all grown from seed, see pics below. Not sure about white flowers, I’ve never seen any. D11B5599-5186-46...

Ray's "Autumn sunshine" post inspired me to dig out a few more of my plants today. Astrophytum DNA must be so mixed up these days in cultivated plants that I must check out pictures of habitat plants as I'm intrigued by the amount of red in the flower throats. Also, am I imagining it or or...

A couple of my Astro's are flowering too (myriostigma and capricorne). Astrophytum's, at least for me, flower over the longest period, with repeat flowers appearing over the growing season.

I echo Edd's thoughts although I wonder if the re-wetability might vary between types/brands of matting? I have a friend who used it once and I recall him saying that the best roots he ever saw on his plants were those growing into the matting. But it created a problem when it came to lifting the po...