I wasn't comparing the Forum to a social media site. I appreciate that the phpBB software is clunky and difficult to set up, in part because it is so customisable and relies on lots of plug-ins. If the Society's ambition for the Forum isn't to increase its use and make it more user-friendly I'd love...

An ambition for the Forum might be to switch to software that can do this, together with things like connecting the Society membership database to it so that all members have a Forum log in automatically through the website. But after the last decade of website trauma I don't think there's much appe...

I've been in contact with Peter and he says:

If they want those pots they need to contact craig Barber. I only have them for Manchester Branch.

Fair enough - I was going by what Peter himself had said: viewtopic.php?p=317113

Neither Peter nor Manchester Branch sell pots any more. Craig Barber has the stock now.

That's quite similar to seedlings I've raised from AdBLPS seed as sp. collected by Heger & Alber from Incahuasi that I haven't managed to put a name to so far. Where's LF1725 from, do you know?

Brian Fearn said in his NCCPG book that he'd named 130 cultivars out of the 150 000 seedlings he'd raised to flowering size. Bob Schick named 129 Echinopsis cultivars having made over 1800 crosses and keeping up to 50 seedlings from each cross. Of the named chamaecereus crosses there are few that ri...

Try rooting the bottom bit, just as is.

Harrisia ×jusbertii

Royston Hughes had the Maihueniopsis. The stall with Martin Lowry on was filled with plants from Maurice Williams' collection.