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by Stuart
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...
by Stuart
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...
by Stuart
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...
by Stuart
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
by 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
by 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
by 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...
by Stuart
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
by 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 ...
by Stuart
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