I think it depends on the species. Some species seem to be happy and keep growing and eventually form large clumps where as others begin to look tired and if not broken up and rerooted, will eventually start to die back as the stems lose their vitality. I found that most of the Conos I have grown wi...

Sorry to disappoint you guys, but this isn't Aloe albiflora . :shock: Its a typical A.albiflora hybrid flower, the sort you get when crossing A.albiflora with bellatula or with hybrids there of. You will see a slight pinkness to the tepals. True albiflora has no pink! instead they are always pure w...

Colin - the Madagascan aloes have been isolated from the African ones for quite a few million years so one might have expected their genes to have become rather different to the African ones, such that molecular systematics might lead one to believe that there are different genera in the two region...

MikeT wrote: ↑Fri Nov 27, 2020 7:05 pm

BrianMc wrote: ↑Fri Nov 27, 2020 5:54 pm I would expect tomentosa to be a hairy one and the mesembryanthemoides to be the tricky slow rosette.

I've made this mistake (more than once). You're probably thinking of Cr. mesembryanthemopsis.

You are absolutely correct, sorry to have doubted you

I have a couple of D.pachyphytum and a D.pulverulenta which I leave dry during the summer months . The thing to bear in mind is that Dudleya are not like Echeveria. I worry that your cat litter will be too dry to root your cutting (but I dislike using pure cat litter) if you can get the watering bal...

Crassula mesembryanthoides germinated in the propagator at around 20C (70F) and the seedlings are now ready for repotting from the 2¾" pot they were sown in (though they'll have to wait till the spring). C. tomentosa didn't germinate in the propagator, but has done since watering again this au...

Darren S wrote: ↑Fri Nov 27, 2020 5:25 pm Those are definitely Babiana seedlings.

I would agree, but perhaps a tad etiolated

Hi All! Earlier today I received a long awaited parcel from a quite reputable nursery with some Lithops and a few other succulents, but I must admit I am a little disappointed by the size of the Lithops and would appreciate a second opinion. Can the smaller ones really be 2 years old? Hi MatDz, I d...

The thing that surprises me most: if Lithops really are this slow, how come potfuls of them can be had so cheap? The people growing them must have to keep them a good long time for not much money, and I would have thought they would have given the space over to something quicker growing, like cacti...

This easy-growing Madagascan miniature had a flower spike developing in the summer, which shrivelled up in the heat of a dry spell. So it was good of it to have another go in the autumn, living up to its floriferous reputation. Very nice. However, Aloe jucunda is fromSomalia, not Madagascar :wink: