L. principis
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L. principis
Three flowers this year, must be the extra sun. Cheers
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Re: L. principis
Beautiful! Hope mine flowers like that one day.
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I am sure it will Cactus girl. This plant is easy to grow with the right conditions. A well drained compost and a deep pot to accommodate it tap root. Plenty of sun and water in Summer and kept dry during Winter. I feed it with Miracid during the growing season, but it is a slow grower. Patience is the answer lol. Cheers
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Re: L. principis
Well done. Mine usually flowers too late in the year so the buds abort, but I have high hopes it will make it in time this year.
Ralph Martin
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Re: L. principis
Well done, Eric. Lovely flowers - and several at once. I have had a plant of this species for a few years and until this year the buds had always aborted. However, after a re-pot last year and with the very warm summer, it has bloomed for me at last. I have given it plenty of water as this seems to be one of the prerequiesites for blooming success.
Rod Smith
Growing a mixed collection of cacti & other succulents; mainly smaller species with a current emphasis on lithops & conophytum.
Growing a mixed collection of cacti & other succulents; mainly smaller species with a current emphasis on lithops & conophytum.
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Re: L. principis
At a couple of nurseries in Europe they stand these in trays and in late spring early summer have them stood in water for a few weeks !
Not at all what we think for cacti
But it encourages the buds to form and not dry up
I have not gone that far but if the weather is good I do try to water them much more often ie up to twice a week in June and July
It works I get way more flowers now than I used to
M
Not at all what we think for cacti
But it encourages the buds to form and not dry up
I have not gone that far but if the weather is good I do try to water them much more often ie up to twice a week in June and July
It works I get way more flowers now than I used to
M
Martin
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'Thelocactus' National Plant Collection
Northern Hampshire
Secretary Oxford Branch
'Thelocactus' National Plant Collection
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Spoke too soon. Both my big old plant, and a smaller L. prinicipis v. trachethele were both in flower today.
My dad and I grew the old one from seed many years ago when I was at school, so its now 40+ years old.
My dad and I grew the old one from seed many years ago when I was at school, so its now 40+ years old.
Ralph Martin
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Members visiting the Llyn Peninsula are welcome to visit my collection.
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https://www.rrm.me.uk/Cacti/cacti.html
Members visiting the Llyn Peninsula are welcome to visit my collection.
Swaps and sales at https://www.rrm.me.uk/Cacti/forsale.php
My Field Number Database is at https://www.fieldnos.bcss.org.uk