You're doing well with your mesembs Terry. Great flower.

Fingers crossed! It is planted in clay granules just under the surface so hopefully there's a chance it might throw roots from the plantlet bases and/or plantlet from the base of the stem.

Slightly off thread,but has coir been found to be a successful alternative to peat? Thanks Pine bark is certainly a promising peat alternative for some of the carnivorous species, mainly Sarracenia I believe. It might work fine for c&s? https://melcourt.co.uk/products/growbark-pine/ I've used a...

Well done Ray. I've still got too many things to still sow this year! Need to sort some magic space for them!!!

How interesting Mat! I can't wait to see it in person and spoil it. Will see about whether it needs planting more deeply to get it rooting at the base of the plantlet.

Ed

Tina wrote: ↑Sat Apr 13, 2024 9:44 pm Hi Ed,
None left now .
Thank you

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Only 1 left apparently Tina.

I haven't watered my cacti yet but would have done if I was at home this week. I agree it has been a dank and dingy start to the year, but at least mild.

What other rock types available in the UK might be worth trying? I'd really like to plant an aztekium vertically in some gypsum. Don't just worry about UK types - you can even get some fantastic stuff that's been imported. My local stone merchants (https://www.cedstone.co.uk/) once had some massive...