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MAY 2016 - The oldest plant in my collection.
Posted: Mon May 02, 2016 9:04 am
by Sylvia
It was extremely difficult to think of a title not used before but have chosen this. Lots of pictures please.
Re: MAY 2016 - The oldest plant in my collection.
Posted: Mon May 02, 2016 4:26 pm
by rodsmith
My Notocactus leninghausii was grown from seed sown in 1975 and has been with me over 4 changes of address. It flowers reliably every year but is currently in storage pending our latest move. Six years ago the main stem rotted and I had to cut and re-root it. This is the remainder of the stem and resulting pups. Click twice on each photo for close ups.
Re: MAY 2016 - The oldest plant in my collection.
Posted: Tue May 03, 2016 12:09 am
by Bill
This venerable old thing was planted in 1934 and has outlived 2 owners, I have known it all my life and been its custodian since 2006. Not the best picture and yes the piece of wood at the back is holding it up.
Re: MAY 2016 - The oldest plant in my collection.
Posted: Sun May 22, 2016 4:03 pm
by Chris L
Re: MAY 2016 - The oldest plant in my collection.
Posted: Thu May 26, 2016 11:05 pm
by RAYWOODBRIDGE
This is the oldest plant that I have grown ( older ones may have been brought into the collection ) when clearing out my father's house after his death, a clay oblong pot was found on a spare bedroom windowsill with two dead brown stems sticking out of the soil see bottom left of picture. this is what it looks like 4 years latter. I had given my mother a large clump of Echinocereus viereckii some 40 years ago when I moved away because she liked the flowers, and here it was still alive even though my father most likely never watered it after my mother died 4 years previous
Re: MAY 2016 - The oldest plant in my collection.
Posted: Fri May 27, 2016 8:46 am
by Liz M
That is the most amazing tale of survival, I hope you post another picture when it flowers.
This is my oldest plant that I have grown, an ancient Echinopsis oxygona, it is at least 50 years old.
- Echinopsis oxygona
I also have this lovely Aloe plicatilis that I took over from someone but I have no idea how old it is.
- Aloe plicatilis
Re: MAY 2016 - The oldest plant in my collection.
Posted: Mon May 30, 2016 6:50 pm
by Bill
Liz M wrote:
I also have this lovely Aloe plicatilis that I took over from someone but I have no idea how old it is.
No idea either but someone gave me a cutting almost as big and they said it had outgrown his green house again and he had had to restart it.
Re: MAY 2016 - The oldest plant in my collection.
Posted: Tue May 31, 2016 11:40 am
by Tina
Here's my large
fockea crispa just waking up ( awful picture), this came from a former branch member in 2006, he purchased it at
Shrewsbury in 1977 ( good record keeping on the label). I didn't want this plant as it was to big for me to move but he wanted to sell all three fockea together so I was coerced, I love it now.
The plant always worries me as it goes very dormant during the winter & loses lots of branches, whereas my other fockea's keep theirs & have been growing for several months already.
It makes up for it by making a lot of top growth once it starts.
Re: MAY 2016 - The oldest plant in my collection.
Posted: Tue May 31, 2016 1:13 pm
by Rayc11
This is one of my oldest plants Astrophytum Ornatum, bought as a small seedling at the local Garden centre in 1968, now around 12ins(30cm) tall!
Re: MAY 2016 - The oldest plant in my collection.
Posted: Tue May 31, 2016 1:44 pm
by Paul in Essex
The oldest cactus I have is now 63 years old - the Trichcereus pasacana that was offered up by Graham (Werewolf) last summer and now resides on the Essex Riviera:
But my oldest succulent I reckon must be this Dasylirion quadrangulatum. I'd guess it is a centurian but exactly how old I have no idea. I've had it 10 years. Here it is with a flowering spike emerging last year: