Good work there. I like the look of the blow molded polycarbonate sheets they must be much more rigid than the usual flat sheets, I don't think I have seen them before (not that I am much of a greenhouse spotter )
I hope you and your plants enjoy their new home.

I was under the impression you should never lay glass flat in your car boot unless you wanted to break the whole lot in one go. The advice I'd heard was always to lean them at an angle. I moved my 8ft x 10ft in my Merc. Vito only the 10ft parts had to go on the roof rack, the glass was stacked at a...

Gramps, light is not always a good thing, taller plants become unstable when grown in relativly small pots filled with light weight 'compost'.

Thank you for all the help. Very impressed with your photograph, Neal, wonderful plant! Here, in wet Britain, I don't think I could keep this outdoors. I don't heat my greenhouses, but the smaller plants come indoors. I did have a white one of these thirty years ago, but I didn't realise they came ...

They are looking good, thank you for the update Jess.

Arn't kids great, my thirteen year old still insists that I try to grow pips from his fruit, our latest is an inch tall clemantine / tangerine seedling.

Liz M wrote:Your plant is an Opuntia and the spikes are the new growth. Nothing to get worried about, it is just getting bigger.

As above, they are a sort of vestigial leaf and fall off after a short while, many Opuntia have them.

Cracking shot there Ray.

As I suspected the Thelocactus only opened on of the flowers and I missed it, so when I got home tis lunch time and Gymnocalycium horstii had opened it's first flower I had to make a record of it. Gymnocalycium_Horstii.jpg Gymnocalycium_Horstii2.jpg It did not flower last year but looks like it will...

Hi Juster welcome to the forum. Interesting that you are Croydon Branch show secretary I visited your show last month it was the first time I have been to a cactus event since I was a member of Hull Branch NCSS in the mid 80's. It was good to see what plants were popular at a shows these days and to...