Picture perfect

[Rogan]

To escape our indesribably miserable weather - wet (which is good) and cold (Brr! It's actually snowing in the Drakensberg as we speak!) - I spent some time in the succulent house this morning - Haworthia k. mcmurtryi is looking good with its perfectly symmetrical 'alligator-skin' leaves:

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[Rogan]

My bevy of Haworthia springbokvlakensis specimens (although never as perfectly groomed as Bill's!), now 13 years old from seed, look good in the moist weather:

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[Phil White]

Excellent stuff Rogan those area amongst the best springbok's I have seen, do you shade them and the mcmurtryi's more than other Haworthias that is ?

[BrianMc]

Very Nice!!!:)

I think myspringbokvlakense are trying to escape - through the bottom of the pot. I have to remove top dressing regularly so I can see them!

[Rogan]

I have always thought I shade them too much, Phil - at a rough guess 50 - 60%, but they seem happy and flower regularly. I keep my truncata's in similar conditions, but feel they would do much better with more light, admittedly I don't have the 'knack' with them and to 'Sir Truncata' and his kin

[Bill]

Very nice Rogan, I keep my all my koelmanorium slightly more shaded than the most of my haworthia, they seem to go very pale coloured round the edges otherwise. Ditto what Phil says about the sprinkboks.

Thanks for the compliments, but I think I'll pass on the Sir truncata

[Diane]

Beautiful plants, Rogan. I do struggle with H. springbokvlakensis - sometimes it grows quite happily for a while, then loses its roots, have just rerooted one of my plants yet again! H. k mcmurtryii is one I had years ago, never got it going - and keep meaning to get a replacement sometime.

[Lindsey]

So Haworthia springbokvlakensis flowers in springtime?

[Phil White]

Rogan with these 2 species stick to what you are doing they are looking great.
I have found koelmaniorum/mcmurtryi will grow happily in complete shade. Like Diane I have struggled with the sprinbogks a trick well used by good haworthia growers is to keep the crown of the plant covered in grit which is effectively what Brian has been doing.
I have grown both species from my own seed & sprinbok.is good/easy for the the early years & mcmurtryi is just painfully slow !

[Bill]

In my experience certainly younger plants will pull themselves well into the gravel under my growing conditions, older plants seem to be happy to grow a bit more exposed.

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