I think I missed the first A. alstonii seedling flowering today

Good to see yours though, very nice display.

I'm sorry to be the bearer of bad news. Trevor, but your new baby is not in flower. It is has in fact been abused with a glue gun and some fake flowers.

As for roots, just treat it as a cutting, dry or almost dry for a few weeks, then only very light watering until you get obvious growth

Under the convention that subspecies are reproductively isolated populations and varieties are simply recognisable populations, the two terms can sometimes be interchanged. Cactus populations are very often reproductively isolated by geography and almost any population of some species could be assig...

Mine are asleep. No sun, no water, no flowers. I'll just admire yours while I wait

Let the surface of the soil dry out between waterings. If it is wet enough to grow bacteria and algae then sooner or later the Lithops are going to struggle.

[quote]they are sweet. And spikey.[/quote]

And leafy

The NCL may simply have had no room to go to a finer level than subspecies. The ICBN certainly allows for varieties and formas (see articles 24-27), but whether they are used are not is something of a matter of convention. One thing that most certainly cannot be done is to take a variety and change ...

[quote]Variety (v.) and forma or form (f.) have now been replaced with subspecies (ssp.) in modern literature to come more in line with zoology Roger.[/quote] Not sure I agree with that explanation. Subspecies, variety, and forma have more or less the same meaning they ever did, being successively f...

The flecking generally increases with age. Another seedling from the same batch, larger then these, is now very heavily flecked, even more so than a normal plant. This seed source is supposedly very variable. It would be nice if that one seedling does go completely nude, quite an interesting contrast.

That's my excuse for not being able to tell them all apart, Dave