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- Sat Feb 17, 2024 6:14 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Unexpected Volunteer Seedling
- Replies: 4
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Re: Unexpected Volunteer Seedling
It was nestled up agaainst the back of the parent (which is how I missed it at first). I thought the parent had offsetted (which in itself would have been unusual), but the seedling had its own roots and was not attached when I repotted the parent.,
- Sat Feb 17, 2024 6:12 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Sedum Palmers 'rayones'
- Replies: 13
- Views: 976
Re: Sedum Palmers 'rayones'
Various Petrosedums (rupestre and similar) do well in such places...habanerocat wrote: ↑Sat Feb 17, 2024 1:46 pm Is there any hardy succulent plants associated with graves and graveyards in the UK?
- Fri Feb 16, 2024 7:14 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Kew's Tree of Life
- Replies: 7
- Views: 551
Re: Kew's Tree of Life
Thanks for bringing this interesting paper to our attention. I'm going to study it carefully...
- Fri Feb 16, 2024 5:49 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Unexpected Volunteer Seedling
- Replies: 4
- Views: 499
Unexpected Volunteer Seedling
I get plenty of volunteer seedlings in my Aylostera pots, and have even had Lophophoras, but this one is something unexpected Turbinicarpus valdezianus which I find very slow if you deliberately sow it... Anyway, it is now repotted in pumice. It has 2 heads, each about 5mm across IMG20240216150218.j...
- Thu Feb 15, 2024 5:13 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Sedum Palmers 'rayones'
- Replies: 13
- Views: 976
Re: Sedum Palmers 'rayones'
Another Mexican Sedum which has survived outdoors for the last 2 winters for me is Sedum kimnachii, even in Wales where the last 2 winters have been very et as well as cold.
- Wed Feb 14, 2024 5:16 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Kew's Tree of Life
- Replies: 7
- Views: 551
Re: Kew's Tree of Life
Get yourself a DNA sequencing machine and some supplies ?
More seriously, amateur lichenologists have for years had to deal with identifying species which can only be readily separated by chemical testing.
More seriously, amateur lichenologists have for years had to deal with identifying species which can only be readily separated by chemical testing.
- Tue Feb 13, 2024 4:32 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Kew's Tree of Life
- Replies: 7
- Views: 551
Re: Kew's Tree of Life
On the contrary Mat, I hope they will include many more taxa which are morphologically the same, but are genetically different....
- Tue Feb 13, 2024 4:31 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Hildewintera 2024
- Replies: 6
- Views: 309
Re: Hildewintera 2024
I saved some seed from my Hildewintera hybrids last year, and will be sowing them in March. I look forward to seeing the results...
- Thu Feb 01, 2024 6:46 pm
- Forum: Small Opuntias (Tephrocactus Study Group)
- Topic: Germination!
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1555
Re: Germination!
They seem to develop quickly!Cidermanrolls wrote: ↑Thu Feb 01, 2024 8:18 am Some of mine, three weeks after sowing. The platyacantha have come up really quickly. Note the three lobed aoracanthus.
These have had no pretreatment at all. I’ve got a few other pots with no germination in.
- Tue Jan 30, 2024 5:12 pm
- Forum: Small Opuntias (Tephrocactus Study Group)
- Topic: Germination!
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1555
Re: Germination!
What are you growing them in Rob? It looks like fruit and nut mix! Well done, anyway...