Thanks for the info. I'll contact Roy, perhaps he has a few sacks of the W111 going spare?! I'm surprised that it hadn't caught on and that nobody produces it any more, it really was good stuff from what I remember, and quite revolutionary too.

Thank you all for the welcome notes. Peter do I take it you're the proprietor of Southfield?!?! Unless my memory is faulty I am sure I bought some plants from there back in the early '80s! And probably for pennies rather than pounds!

Back to the hobby after 25 years I'm a little out of date. I've just learned that Roy Mottram from Whitestone Nurseries in North Yorkshire, a place close to my youth and source of many plants, has retired and the nursery is no more. Of course things move on, but what of his excellent soil-less compo...

Hello fellow cactologists, cacticians and cactophiles. I had quite a collection when I was young, and regularly attended meetings at the Teesside branch of the society. I was mostly interested in Notocactus and was very proud of my lovely leninghausii, but leaving home to study biology at university...