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by Phil_SK
Sun Feb 09, 2025 7:36 pm
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: Cacti ID please
Replies: 2
Views: 110

Re: Cacti ID please

The very first one is probably Soehrensia (Trichocereus) strigosa.
by Phil_SK
Sat Feb 08, 2025 5:50 pm
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: Need some help with identifying these cacti
Replies: 9
Views: 597

Re: Need some help with identifying these cacti

The first two plants/five photos are a Cleistocactus, maybe something like T. buchtienii or hyalacanthus, and a Corryocactus.
by Phil_SK
Tue Feb 04, 2025 10:03 pm
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: A few photos
Replies: 20
Views: 717

Re: A few photos

juster wrote: Tue Feb 04, 2025 9:15 pm Plus another Agave that looked slightly lilac in colour
A. 'Lavender Lady'
by Phil_SK
Sun Feb 02, 2025 8:59 am
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: Is the forum dying?
Replies: 107
Views: 8340

Re: Is the forum dying?

Hi Benjy, Please will you reconsider your decision to leave the Forum and, if I'm understanding you correctly, the Society? Your contributions here have always been of the highest quality and the Forum would be a poorer place without you and all the content you've published here. Like you, and ...
by Phil_SK
Thu Jan 16, 2025 10:15 pm
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: Updated seed lists
Replies: 748
Views: 225046

Re: Updated seed lists

MatDz wrote: Thu Jan 16, 2025 9:53 pm
Phil_SK wrote: Wed Jan 15, 2025 9:26 pm I've just received Ralf Hillmann's.
How one signs up for that seed list if I may ask?
You need to ask for it: sulcohilli (at) gmx.ch
by Phil_SK
Wed Jan 15, 2025 9:26 pm
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: Updated seed lists
Replies: 748
Views: 225046

Re: Updated seed lists

I've just received Ralf Hillmann's.
by Phil_SK
Thu Jan 09, 2025 9:08 pm
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: Membership renewal check?
Replies: 10
Views: 3633

Re: Membership renewal check?

Presumably joining last July would be for the whole year 2024 and not a subscription for one year from when you originally joined? For instance in the case of joining July in 2024 the subscription does not run to June 2025? I would have thought a subscription for those who joined the middle of a ...
by Phil_SK
Thu Jan 09, 2025 4:25 pm
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: Membership renewal check?
Replies: 10
Views: 3633

Re: Membership renewal check?

It'll be on the anniversary of when you set it up. If a new member joins in July, it'll be July. You must've done yours at the start of February.
by Phil_SK
Sat Jan 04, 2025 2:20 pm
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: Updated seed lists
Replies: 748
Views: 225046

Re: Updated seed lists

It's in the members' area rather than the shop.
by Phil_SK
Sat Dec 28, 2024 2:25 pm
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: Snow
Replies: 15
Views: 4953

Re: Snow

With perfect timing, the Met Office's youtube channel has released a video "Can you trust a weather headline?". Perhaps one of their team is a forum lurker. :lol: Regarding this coming week's weather, the ECMWF 2m temp anomaly chart has next week looking a bit less cold than it did (compare the ...