Hi everyone, I will judge last month's competition after work today. Apologies for the slight delay!

RayW wrote: ↑Sun Jun 02, 2024 10:03 pm Yes it counts Ralph.
I find all types of basilaris stay small or low in cultivation, tending to send up a new pad from the base each year rather than putting one on top of another ?

Hence the name I think, no?

Wow, just wow!

MatDz , the flowers of S. pteranthus and S. grandiflorus look exactly the same. The only difference is that the flower of S. grandiflorus has extremely strong scent, whereas the flower of S. pteranthus has no fragrance at all. However, according to my own experience, the plants themselves have slig...

I tried really hard, but cannot see any difference between this and photographs from p. 12 - what are the distinguishing factors here? Edit: anyway, what amazing flowers they have! Edit edit: I feel relieved, from Llifle : "Note. There is disagreement about the validity and identification of th...

Worth mentioning is the option to download messages as CSV or JSON files (quite "human friendly" formats, especially the former one I think, both are basically text files) for archiving purposes.

A last minute warning, although we have a strong competition already!

One more for Haworthia enthusiasts, Clinton Grobler from HaworthiAfrica.com published a seed list of his various hybrids (most are "complex hybrids" at this stage), available at: https://haworthiafrica.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/HA202405_Haworthiafrica-Seed-List.pdf I am considering a...

A lovely surprise in my "community pot" of epiphytic cacti after almost 2 weeks away. This one came from Ralph I believe, but I lost labels from this pot long time ago. More flowers on their way! That cerise coloured Rhipsalidopsis x was a hybrid created by my father. It has no name. That...

Yes, flowers of sulphur or a rooting powder (most "organic" ones are simple fungicides really). Ground cinnamon has no beneficial properties at all, I only found (and immediately lost the link of curse) a paper talking about highly concentrated extract that had some.