I can be slow sometimes - this plant had gone brown and wrinkly and very poorly looking earlier in the year - looked very dry and sunburnt......
Funny that it has now perked up and looks great... and even looks like it is going to flower.
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- Sat Oct 07, 2023 2:27 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Nearly chucked this out earlier in the year
- Replies: 2
- Views: 403
- Sat Oct 07, 2023 2:24 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: spam from Bill Darbons account
- Replies: 7
- Views: 582
Re: spam from Bill Darbons account
They occasionally pop up from time to time - I've had them with my connection with the branch websites. The pattern is invariably the same - they want help / amazon vouchers / an unspecified favour doing. They are all false spam emails that the spamee cannot do anything about. Best just to delete th...
- Sat Sep 30, 2023 4:29 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Importing seeds from the EU to the UK
- Replies: 33
- Views: 3712
Re: Importing seeds from the EU to the UK
That's a lot of seeds to risk in one package PC/PP/customs not withstanding.
I'd be tempted (if it didn't make too much difference to the cost) to spread the risk over a few packages.
I used to order seeds from various places and all these new "rules" made me give up.
I'd be tempted (if it didn't make too much difference to the cost) to spread the risk over a few packages.
I used to order seeds from various places and all these new "rules" made me give up.
- Wed Sep 27, 2023 8:40 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: A strange leninghausii flower
- Replies: 6
- Views: 495
Re: A strange leninghausii flower
Maybe an offset will start growing from that point and somehow the flower has got there first.
- Tue Sep 26, 2023 9:25 am
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Poor roots on a large Aylostera
- Replies: 22
- Views: 1277
Re: Poor roots on a large Aylostera
I thought about watering a lot when I switched to pumice. We can water too often, but also too much at once.
We might drink four or five cups of tea a day, but to drink four or five large mugs might be too much.
We might drink four or five cups of tea a day, but to drink four or five large mugs might be too much.
- Sat Sep 09, 2023 5:43 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Trying 100% pumice for the first time
- Replies: 5
- Views: 464
Re: Trying 100% pumice for the first time
My experience of growing in pumice - you need to make sure you've got ALL the old soil off the roots. Ideally any fine roots should go too. If I lost a plant invariably it was one that had soil and rotted roots in the pumice when I unpotted it. Pumice roots are different than John Innes roots.
- Wed Aug 30, 2023 9:28 am
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Moving home / greenhouse
- Replies: 7
- Views: 552
Re: Moving home / greenhouse
If you are transporting trays on the back seats..... use the seatbelts. I once nearly had a pile of 150 plants, pots, soil and labels in the footwells due to having to do an emergency stop.
I didn't because of said seatbelts.
I didn't because of said seatbelts.
- Sun Aug 20, 2023 11:08 am
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Growing Cacti & Succulents in 100% Pumice
- Replies: 3
- Views: 458
Re: Growing Cacti & Succulents in 100% Pumice
I am gradually repotting my collection of Mesembs into 100% 2-4mm Pumice as my initial trial has been successful. Do any growers using pure Pumice know if Mealy Bugs are less likely to be attracted to Pumice than when potted in JI2? I've seen far far less mealy bugs in my collection since everythin...
- Tue Aug 15, 2023 7:27 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Using 100% Pumice
- Replies: 5
- Views: 402
Re: Using 100% Pumice
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This is where I get mine from.
(Can't do the price comparison in my head... Only on phone)
https://www.specialistaggregates.com/pu ... -6097.html
This is where I get mine from.
(Can't do the price comparison in my head... Only on phone)
- Thu Aug 10, 2023 7:18 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Pest control
- Replies: 63
- Views: 4766
Re: Pest control
And as for that Diatomaceous Earth.... I've conducted tests with that also. Get one on the move on a table top. Surround it with Diatomaceous Earth. All it does is bury it's hear under a lump. Come out the next morning and it's gone. Where to God only knows. So I stopped those tests. The tell tale ...