...if you can grow one of these (M. guelzowiana) for a few years you are doing well. Have not seen one for years.LoL. Cheers This is my M. guelzowiana in flower last August. It's still alive, as I type (or was this morning). I bought it from Rene, whose thread this is. Mammillaria guelzowiana flowe...

To quote Shakespeare

"What's in a name? that which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet"

iann wrote:Trees will grow back, right?

Yes, quite so, but greenhouses won't. It's really important to have a greenhouse securely fixed to the ground if we're going to get many winds like yesterday's.

Bags collapsing is perhaps because they were too wide Rod, ideally their width should just be enough take the pot itself, then they tend to prop themselves up. Could well be so, Dave. Last year was the first time I had used the baggie method and it was a bit of a disaster all round. Apart from coll...

Probably my Notocactus leninghausii, grown from seed in 1975 and regularly giving me a fine display of flowers and thousands of seeds.

I'm going to use small plastic tubs this year, for the first time. I've had problems with bags collapsing, even when I leave a large label sticking out of the pot. The build-up of condensation seems to weigh the bags down and they can collapse onto the seedlings. I've noticed that several other foru...

I think you're doing the right thing in giving plenty of ventilation. I have meters in my greenhouse that read the temp and humidity and this winter humidity has frequently been at 99%. According to some sources, humidity at this level can be very damaging to cacti & succulents. However, I have ...

No sign of buds on any of my plants here in wet Wales. The sun won't hit my greenhouse for another few days - that will be the first sign of hope for me (that is if we see any sun!).

Peter wrote:Well yes, Rod, but I suspect the magnificence of your plants would distract the eye away from the pots.......

You obviously haven't seen my plants, Peter.

Peter wrote:...Efflorescence is harmless in the context of growing plants.

Yes Peter, but it is unsightly on clay pots.