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- Mon Mar 25, 2024 6:42 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Love 'em or Hate 'em ....
- Replies: 7
- Views: 303
Re: Love 'em or Hate 'em ....
There's conflicting information all over the place when it comes to growing cacti and succulents. I'd water a grafted plant based on the stock used though the scion doesn't want to be 'pumped up' and bloated. If the scion is a fast grower then it probably doesn't want grafting in the first place. Gr...
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 12:23 am
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Love 'em or Hate 'em ....
- Replies: 7
- Views: 303
Re: Love 'em or Hate 'em ....
They'll graft quite easily and grow better on Echinopsis though it has a bad habit of producing too many offsets on the stock, each areole seems to be able to only grow one offset so there is in theory, an eventual end to brushing off offsets. For grafting I'd recommend the extending Stanley knife w...
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 4:06 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Love 'em or Hate 'em ....
- Replies: 7
- Views: 303
Re: Love 'em or Hate 'em ....
DSCF2780.JPG I've had this one for a few years, it lives with other variegates though doesn't seem to grow much. It has gone through the last few winters at 3C which isn't too bad as the usual problem with these plants is that they were grown in much warmer places, many are grown in Brazil, and the...
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 11:20 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Mammillaria ID
- Replies: 3
- Views: 173
Re: Mammillaria ID
I'm not sure how anyone could have sold this as Mamm Crucigera, I'd agree that M.Nejapensis seems fairly OK for this one. A real Crucigera that size would sell for £50 or more online.
Stuart
Stuart
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 9:06 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Southfields today
- Replies: 4
- Views: 274
Re: Southfields today
Even better, wait a month when more hybrids will be in flower and combine it with a trip to Spalding Cactus Mart on 20th April.
Stuart
Stuart
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 5:07 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Cracker
- Replies: 13
- Views: 589
Re: Cracker
Needs plenty of water and doesn’t like high temperatures. Best suited for alpine growers, not a good greenhouse plant but looks great in flower. Easy to grow but not with the rest of the plants we write about here.
Stuart
Stuart
- Tue Mar 12, 2024 11:25 am
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: lophophora companion / nurse plants
- Replies: 3
- Views: 258
Re: lophophora companion / nurse plants
I've only seen it growing in very large clusters under creosote bushes, Larrea Tridentata, though these are meant to produce something from the roots that deters other plants. Otherwise they're seen as smaller plants out in the open, they don't seem to have 'nurse' plants like quite a few other cact...
- Sun Mar 10, 2024 9:30 pm
- Forum: Aloes, Gasteria, Haworthia Etc (The Haworthia Society)
- Topic: Identity required please
- Replies: 6
- Views: 332
Re: Identity required please
Looking at it again, the leaf is the wrong colour for Aloe Humilis, I'd go for one of the Dutch Gasteraloe hybrids.
Stuart
Stuart
- Sun Mar 10, 2024 11:41 am
- Forum: Aloes, Gasteria, Haworthia Etc (The Haworthia Society)
- Topic: Identity required please
- Replies: 6
- Views: 332
Re: Identity required please
Yes, it is Gasteria ‘Little Warty’, some have more leaf pattern than others. The other is possibly the form of Aloe Humilis with fancy leaf markings grown by one Dutch nursery through selective breeding. It might be a Gasteraloe though, there’s a Dutch range sold as ‘Tiga’ with an added letter eg D ...
- Fri Mar 08, 2024 12:08 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Can anyone explain this columnar lophophora?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 721
Re: Can anyone explain this columnar lophophora?
Well they look healthy and they’re flowering, they don’t really look like they’ve been grown in the dark, maybe potted in 100% Phostrogen. Weird?
Stuart
Stuart