I plant my seeds in March, usually. In early autumn, I ease off on the daily watering routine, and start to open the propagator a bit, to get the seedlings used to lower humidity In latish autumn, when the temperatures in the greenhouse are cooler, I then pot the seedlings out. Ones for my own colle...

Fair point Bill, but I can hardly type a whole 1.5 hour talk into the forum and post all the pictures I use to illustrate it! I did actually give a brief summary of my propagator. Here's a picture without the lid on, with the seeds all sown and ready to go. So, just to respond to Susanne's question ...

Briefly. I have a plastic cold frame inside the greenhouse, with some polysyrene sheet as insulation in the bottom, then a layer of sand, a soil warming cable controlled by a thermostat, and more sand on top. The seeds get sown in pots, and kept in there. Its under the bench, with NO artificial ligh...

Does anyone grow Pygmaeocereus bieblii?

It's a very nice looking plant, and I am keen to get hold of a plant to compare it to the other Pygmaeocerei I have. If anyone has a seedling or cutting to spare, I would be very happy to swap for other plants or purchase.

Yes. Aymeric's pages are here (as Google will tell you - its the top hit :)). http://lapsyserre.free.fr/ and the seed list page itself is here http://lapsyserre.free.fr/psy_liste/psyliste.html Dont worry that some is in French, the list is pretty understandable even with my poor French, and there ar...

I have a talk on seed raising I can give to branches if you want to see how I do it.

Bob Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > So I choose to give my spare plants away and that > is wrong. > > Just because you want to make money out of people > it doesn't mean we all have to. Bob, you have twisted my words completely round! :) I never suggested anyone coul...

Bill Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Unless this from our own website is out of date I > have to correct you there Ralph: > > Members of the Finance & General Purposes > Committee > > Several members have asked for a list of the > members of the F&GP Committe...

Vic Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I've discussed this with Tony Mace in the past > when someone took offence to the fact that I > deleted their post whch was a direct link to their > nursery offering plants for sale. Tony said I was > absolutely correct and that th...

Vic Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I've discussed this with Tony Mace in the past > when someone took offence to the fact that I > deleted their post whch was a direct link to their > nursery offering plants for sale. Tony said I was > absolutely correct and that th...