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[Roy]

I hoped you wouldn't notice that Ian, I'm already at it!

[Bill]

Hi Roy

One of the flowers on the multi-headed bella I posted on your other lithops thread did exactly the same thing.

But as has been said by next year we will never know it happened. Amazing when you think that, if cacti and stuff like Aloes, agave, haworthia etc get damaged you have to wait years for the damage to grow out, but with these and thier kindred even the most catastrophic looking scarring will be gone in less than a year.

[Roy]

Hi Bill,
yes it is a sad fact that many years of care and attention can be ruined for a long time with one careless manouver with a show plant if it's a cacti. The main problem with Lithops as far as I can see is the small drip from the greenhouse roof that goes unnoticed until you arrive one day and find a mysterious mass of jelly where your lLithops used to be!

[Bill]

I'm glad I not the only one with drips LOL

[Cactus Jack]

they say thats a problem of the old! (g'houses) lol.

[Roy]

I think it can be a useful exercise to be in a greenhouse in heavy rain or to watch which way the condensation runs off

[Julie]

Or put some cocktail umbrellas over the Lithops.

Just look at those little seedlings! And the rusty-looking one is beautiful.

Yep, my old Forby has some scars. I scorched her a bit when she was little, and she got around it by making more ribs. She's not Crufts material but I still love her.

[AntonyC]

I'm with youon this one Roy, L.Dorotheae is also one of my favorites alon with Bromfeldii and Acampuae(think thats how you spell it but a couple of beers may have impeeded my judgement ;-) )
Ant

[Roy]

The other one I like is verruculosa with the raised spots.
I seem to have had a bit of success this year with pollination, if I can keep the mice off I should have some seed next year. It makes a difference having a few hundred seeds rather than a packet of 15 half of which seem to go on the floor:-))

[Bill]

I do all my seed sowing on a large sheet of white card, never lose a precious seed.