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Paul
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In order to try and keep the Forum a safe place for BCSS Members and other cacti and succulent enthusiasts of all ages, everyone who registers is checked. If you are a BCSS Member and include your membership number, this is easy, because we can just look you up in the database. If you are not a BCSS Member, then we rely on the data you provide. If we can't find any traces by a brief online search, your account will be placed "on hold" until you get in touch with us by email and ask for Forum account approval.
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- Thu Nov 28, 2024 1:57 pm
- Forum: Introduce Yourself
- Topic: Hello from New Jersey!
- Replies: 3
- Views: 119
- Tue Nov 12, 2024 9:22 am
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Don't forget the On-Line talk on tuesday
- Replies: 487
- Views: 138069
Re: Don't forget the On-Line talk on tuesday
Join us for our November Zoom Talk Topic: My Scottish Greenhouse with Brian McDonough Brian.jpg Today! Tuesday 12 November at 7.30pm GMT Join Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84950868107?pwd=73ADvjDgVXtP8aqa4QzFJgZiECmJLn.1 Meeting ID: 849 5086 8107 Passcode: bcss In this month’s talk we take ...
- Tue Nov 12, 2024 9:20 am
- Forum: Introduce Yourself
- Topic: Hello from Bristol
- Replies: 2
- Views: 164
Re: Hello from Bristol
Welcome Dan.
Looking forward to seeing more pics of your plants
Looking forward to seeing more pics of your plants
- Fri Oct 04, 2024 8:37 am
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Scottish Rebutias
- Replies: 11
- Views: 857
Re: Scottish Rebutias
Well, three years on, and I'm sorry to say the 20 or so different Rebutia and Aylostera I had outside have all died. I'm afraid the winters are just too rough for them here on the Buchan plain. Allan in Orkney and Ross in the west manage it alright, but we must be just over the edge in terms of ...
- Mon Jul 22, 2024 7:27 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Mealies again
- Replies: 36
- Views: 1875
Re: Mealies again
Everyone has their own solutions of course, and there are many valid ways to deal with it. Here's what I would do. 1. Soak the root ball in water until soft. Gently squeeze and teaze until you can get the plants apart. I find poking the rootball with a pencil to be helpful. 2. Taking each one ...
- Tue Jun 11, 2024 4:39 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Aylostera fiebrigii(?) vallegrandensis(?)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 295
Re: Aylostera fiebrigii(?) vallegrandensis(?)
Here are a couple of pictures of my A. vallegrandensis. Generally pale bodied, as Ralph says quite soft-spined, flowers generally orange or orange-red. vallegrandensis2.jpg vallegrandensis1.jpg @habanerocat, I wonder if labels got transposed? The plant in your picture looks more like Ralf Hillman's ...
- Sun Jun 02, 2024 6:08 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Sulcorebutia patriciae
- Replies: 15
- Views: 574
Re: Sulcorebutia patriciae
A thorny issue! I have lots of this species (or two species, which is my view) in various spine shades of white through yellowish white to buff, with a wide range of different names too. I have them under crispata, tarabucoensis, patriciae, hertusii, hertusii var patriciae, crispata var ...
- Sun Jun 02, 2024 9:24 am
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: The Ugly Duckling
- Replies: 4
- Views: 345
The Ugly Duckling
A few years back I sowed a pack of seeds of Lobivia krahn-juckeri (or Lobivia caineana if you prefer) BLMT798/03, which had good germination and I got quite a few plants from. One of them was a bit of a mutant, being effectively just a green blob with no spines. I'm a sucker for the underdog or the ...
- Sat Jun 01, 2024 12:19 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: purple, anyone?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 368
purple, anyone?
The flowering season for my Aylostera and Rebutia is dying down now, but this morning I was greeted with this dazzling sight in my Weingartia (Sulcorebutia) section. This is W. "vizcarrae" N.N., originally described in 1970, now reckoned to be a form of W. purpurea , Lau 331a. Found by Alfred Lau at ...
- Mon May 27, 2024 5:02 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: On Beechgrove 26/5/24
- Replies: 3
- Views: 347
Re: On Beechgrove 26/5/24
That was really excellent Nick, I enjoyed watching it.
Also congratulations on getting a mention for the new Edinburgh branch of the BCSS!
Also congratulations on getting a mention for the new Edinburgh branch of the BCSS!