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- Sun Mar 17, 2024 3:53 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Pyrrhocactus
- Replies: 28
- Views: 3842
Re: Pyrrhocactus
Roger felt, perhaps, that a large diurnal temperature swing helped his germination of P. umadeave. Anecdotally, this seems to be the case in the UK also. My best germination events coincided with (accidental) temperature swings from possibly near freezing at night to above 30C by day. With just one ...
- Tue Feb 20, 2024 2:50 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Unexpected Volunteer Seedling
- Replies: 4
- Views: 470
Re: Unexpected Volunteer Seedling
I was going to say that was an amazing spot! But maybe a bit easier amongst a tray of Lophophoras
- Mon Jan 29, 2024 4:12 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: My avonia quinaria won’t root and it’s been almost a year. Please send help
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1061
Re: My avonia quinaria won’t root and it’s been almost a year. Please send help
Don't know if there are any special techniques for rooting these. Maybe just time. You might try cutting off some of the dried up bits at the very base to expose fresh tissue, but that might do more harm than good. Depends how desperate you get during this year, I supposed.
- Fri Jan 19, 2024 11:44 am
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Ecehveria Maria worries
- Replies: 6
- Views: 944
Re: Ecehveria Maria worries
I leave my handful of Echeverias dry over the winter. They are variously cold or frozen. The only losses in an unheated greenhouse have been from botryitis on E. setosa rather than the cold, which I suspect was too damp going into out usual dull humid autumn. There may be some species that are less ...
- Fri Jan 05, 2024 11:40 am
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Gaps in caudex of Dioscorea elephantipes
- Replies: 9
- Views: 928
Re: Gaps in caudex of Dioscorea elephantipes
Yup, read the journal. It describes, and shows, how the plates expand from green live material deep down between the plates. You might just have a case of that. Perhaps see if you can shine a light down and make sure there is something still in there.
- Sun Dec 10, 2023 9:08 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Post germination treatment of Cintia knizei
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1074
Re: Post germination treatment of Cintia knizei
Quite slow. Most of the growth below ground. Otherwise not too difficult. Probably prone to scorch without food ventilation, but I haven't had any problems with them. Watch out for mites.
- Wed Dec 06, 2023 7:47 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Pleiospilos Nelii.
- Replies: 1
- Views: 854
Re: Pleiospilos Nelii.
Seems like a good time to separate them. Or you could water. So long as the oldest leaves are getting softer, you're doing fine.
- Thu Nov 30, 2023 6:00 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Enough Lithops?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1697
Re: Enough Lithops?
You can never have enough Lithops
- Wed Nov 29, 2023 7:35 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Aztekium growth
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2550
Re: Aztekium growth
Definitely getting bigger!
- Tue Nov 21, 2023 2:25 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: First time for flowers- Conophytum
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1323
Re: First time for flowers- Conophytum
Not sen the pink one before. Here's the more typical colour.
These are well worth looking at magnified, very intricate patterns and windowing.