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- Sun Jan 12, 2025 2:47 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Old seed viability
- Replies: 17
- Views: 695
Re: Old seed viability
I think we may forget that the quality of the storage conditions are paramount. Different for each species i would imagine. As has been pointed out, the germination is different too. One would imagine that a cactus tolerating intense winter cold would require its seeds to be differently stored to ...
- Thu Jan 09, 2025 9:23 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Membership renewal check?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 599
Re: Membership renewal check?
My understanding from a conversation with a Trustee was four CW issues AFTER the subscription date NOT the 4 belonging to the calendar year.
- Sun Jan 05, 2025 8:00 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Snow
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1317
Re: Snow
Could be challenging for our Scottish colleagues tonight if the forecast of minus 12 is correct.
- Fri Jan 03, 2025 3:37 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: 'Free' heat
- Replies: 9
- Views: 567
Re: 'Free' heat
Chuckle If it was on ‘Who Wants To Be A Millionaire’ I’d have to ask the audience. I always struggle with the Englishy ones. I'm not a Yorkshire man by birth ... just by adoption .... accident ... moving house. Their humour is self deprecating but warm. They say Yorkshire folk have short arms and lo ...
- Fri Jan 03, 2025 11:35 am
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: 'Free' heat
- Replies: 9
- Views: 567
Re: 'Free' heat
Chuckle
- Fri Jan 03, 2025 11:20 am
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: 'Free' heat
- Replies: 9
- Views: 567
Re: 'Free' heat
God's own county
AKA Yorkshire
AKA Yorkshire
- Fri Jan 03, 2025 10:57 am
- Forum: Monthly Photo Competitions
- Topic: January 2025 - something new
- Replies: 2
- Views: 466
Re: January 2025 - something new
2024-07-29 17-07-39 (C,S4).JPG I'll start with a picture taken last July of an offset forming on an Echinopsis hybrid. This offset is 5 weeks old and 2mm across. Backstory for those interested. I'd made a cross between two Schick hybrids in 2020. The seed yield was very low. The germination rate in ...
- Thu Jan 02, 2025 10:37 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: 'Free' heat
- Replies: 9
- Views: 567
Re: 'Free' heat
It was sunny (at least it was in GOC) so there would be some solar gain. There was in my GH during the morning. I stayed in the house!
- Thu Jan 02, 2025 5:23 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Are these offsets ?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 613
Re: Are these offsets ?
Yup
They are offsets. I'd leave them until after the first watering in March. I'd twist rather than cut.
Two options.
1 dry them off for a week then put on fresh compost to root down.
2 graft them onto a fast growing stock.
They are offsets. I'd leave them until after the first watering in March. I'd twist rather than cut.
Two options.
1 dry them off for a week then put on fresh compost to root down.
2 graft them onto a fast growing stock.
- Wed Jan 01, 2025 11:24 am
- Forum: Monthly Photo Competitions
- Topic: December 2024 - A little bit closer please.
- Replies: 34
- Views: 2471
Re: December 2024 - A little bit closer please.
Happy New Year to one and all. The brief was to get in “a little closer please”. I’ve judged on photographic and interpretational merit, not on the plant. I was really pleased to see so many superb attempts to woo me. The project brief was “photo not plant”. I’ve penned a few constructive comments in ...