You are right.
I removed a bit of sheet today, it's green on the inside
Would you wait with no water until the old sheet gets broken by themselves?

A lot of conos are now flowering and broke their protective sheet here in Spain since a week or two ago approximately. Smaller species, like pubicalyx are completely sleepy. Do they wake up later than other species? Do you give them water to promote growing? In general, do you treat them different f...

Hello everybody! Last week (2/08) I grafted a special Astrophytum caput-medusae pink seedling on a schlumbergera stock. I put on a baggie until yesterday, when I did the photo attached. I think that the graft did not caught, because the seedling seems to be flying over the stock, only attached in on...

Double flowered Astrophytum Asterias V-type

Aylostera 'Celebration' which is one of Southfield's hybrids - I keep a couple of A4 cards to slip behind/under plants in my greenhouse to try and get clearer pictures of the individual plants, can't always decide whether black or pale grey is best... web-102747.jpgweb-102627.jpg I did take a pictu...

Hi everybody! I'm Dani, a cactus/succulent collector from that sunny place south west of Europe :grin: I'm 30, and recently joined BCSS to learn more about this hobbie, although I started on this when I was 18-20 years old. As I live in a little north facing flat, I only have a small sunny window we...