Introduce myself

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ize89
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Introduce myself

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Hello fellow members,

My name is Isaac and I am from Cambridge, UK. I am an enthusiast for growing Conophytum & Lithops plants, mostly Conophytums as I live in England. My journey began in Tesco and Homebase, where I brought my first set of succulent plants. I became interested about these plants and because they had no name, I decided to try to search them. On my search, the discovery of a world full of Cono & Lith's caught my attention. So the theory began, I searched a lot of information about the plants (origin, species, growing) etc. I then went to try to buy more of these humble plants and now my starting list from seed is as follows;

Lithops -
Aucampiae 'Bella-ketty'
Otzeniana 'Cesky Granat'
Schwantesii 'nutwerk'
Gracilidelineata waldroniae C189
Bromfieldii acf Embers
Salicola acf Bacchus

Conophytum -
Achabense SB1600
Armianum SH462
Bugerii
Cubicum
Ernstii EVJ8512 Sandberg
Pageae Spektakel
Pageae SB1985 Ottospoort
Pageae SB2171
Pageae SB1195
Minimum wittebergense RR714
Pubicalyx SB2024 Banke
Pubicalyx Kilprand pin head
Stephanii abductum Sb1119
Stephanii Helmutii Eernietberge


I made myself a list from photo selecting of which I find most attractive, so I have a lot more yet to buy. I also took a page from the far east's book; if they are demanding them so much, then I also want to grow them as they must be very good haha

I joined the BCSS in hope to learn and converse with other members to enlighten myself and further my knowledge with these plants, and nothing better than to meet new people with similar interests :)
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Welcome to the forum, Isaac. There are several Lithops & Cono experts here and I'm sure you will be able to get plenty of tips (and possibly plants) from forum members.
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Growing a mixed collection of cacti & other succulents; mainly smaller species with a current emphasis on lithops & conophytum.
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Welcome to the forum
You could have a look on Terry's website http://www.smale-conophytum.co.uk/
Or Chris http://conophytum.com/
Or even join the mesemb study group http://mesemb.org/
Depends how far you want to go with them
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Chris and Terry contribute on here aswell
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TEPHROCACTUS AND RELATED SPECIES
http://www.leeds.bcss.org.uk/ http://www.zone3.bcss.org.uk/
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Thank you for the warm welcoming guys
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Are you a member of the MSG? Usually lots of Lithops and Conophytum articles in it, and as always an interesting seed list you might drool over.
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Aiko wrote:Are you a member of the MSG? Usually lots of Lithops and Conophytum articles in it, and as always an interesting seed list you might drool over.
Yes I am a member of MSG group, I am waiting for the bulletin and articles to come out :)
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hii all i am new on this forum and i like it most.
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arpitkakkar1 wrote:hii all i am new on this forum and i like it most.

Welcome to the group!
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Well here goes, my name /Paul cooper, aka pauco@aol.com Just to keep it easy. So no I am not Spanish.
Just good ol, English man, with a keen interest in cacti, any cacti lol.
live in Leyland, Lancashire. I have been retired for the past 7 years and taken a keen interest in anything cacti.
I became a member in May 29th 2017. number 51588. Will try to post pics another time :cool:
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