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- Sun Jan 28, 2024 7:37 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Insect ID please
- Replies: 6
- Views: 619
Re: Insect ID please
Agree with Thrips - they love yellow mesemb flowers, and can run very fast. Unfortunately there are no current insecticides which will eliminate them, alas. The life cycle is that eggs are laid in the soil, and the young nymphs which are usually yellow, hatch out and feed on young growth, resulting ...
- Wed Nov 29, 2023 9:16 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: 'Tis the season for a trip to Lidl ... Aldi ......
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1759
Re: 'Tis the season for a trip to Lidl ... Aldi ......
Nice! Love the yellow one.
- Wed Nov 22, 2023 2:08 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Dobbies latest stapelia plant?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1351
Re: Dobbies latest stapelia plant?
Scented flowers? Odoriferous more like! You’ll only know when it flowers.
- Fri Nov 17, 2023 9:35 am
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: First time for flowers- Conophytum
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1545
Re: First time for flowers- Conophytum
Ah, OK! Well done!
- Thu Nov 16, 2023 9:19 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: First time for flowers- Conophytum
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1545
Re: First time for flowers- Conophytum
Congratulations on your first flowering! However it doesn’t look like C. comptonii (quite a rare species) which would normally have straw yellow flowers. Hopefully someone else might be able to identify it.
- Thu Nov 16, 2023 5:39 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Baby Lithops
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1258
Re: Baby Lithops
Definitely Conophytums, and one guess would be C. fulleri, but a bit difficult to say, without flowers.
- Sun Nov 12, 2023 12:38 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: when mice get peckish- mesembs
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1150
Re: when mice get peckish
Oh dear, Tina! At least they will produce new leaves next year. I think your ID is Lithops ‘Hammeruby’ the red form of L. meyeri.
- Tue Oct 31, 2023 2:27 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Stapeliad thread
- Replies: 309
- Views: 56799
Re: Stapeliad thread
:woho: :woho: I have at last managed to flower a Pseudolithos migiurtinus !,I’m not sure where I obtained this one, as I’ve had a few over the last few years (which have collapsed on me at various times), but I think I acquired this one at a cactus mart about 4 or 5 years ago. It had to be rerooted ...
- Fri Oct 27, 2023 10:03 am
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Coastal succulents UK
- Replies: 9
- Views: 924
Re: Coastal succulents UK
Yes, Ernie, I purchased some Aeoniums and an Echeveria from them a couple of months ago. Excellent plants, well packed, and can highly recommend.
- Thu Oct 26, 2023 9:29 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Agave talk & pictures
- Replies: 637
- Views: 82220
Re: Agave talk & pictures
Quite fabulous, Tina! Am most envious…