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by Stuart
Mon Mar 18, 2024 5:07 pm
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: Cracker
Replies: 8
Views: 146

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.
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by Stuart
Tue Mar 12, 2024 11:25 am
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: lophophora companion / nurse plants
Replies: 3
Views: 227

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: 274

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: 274

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: 657

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?
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by Stuart
Fri Mar 01, 2024 10:12 am
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: Cactus and Succulent Review
Replies: 9
Views: 525

Re: Cactus and Succulent Review

Apart from being well worth reading, subscribing to the Cactus & Succulent Review, which is free, leads to discounted admission to 'Cactus at the Castle' this September. There's over 20 nurseries signed up so far and lots more happening there.

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by Stuart
Wed Feb 28, 2024 5:59 pm
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: The first day of meteorological spring approaches
Replies: 8
Views: 454

Re: The first day of meteorological spring approaches

From a south-coast point of view, any time in March when there's a forecast of a few mild sunny days. Met Office forecast is usually more reliable than the BBC.

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by Stuart
Fri Feb 23, 2024 3:52 pm
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: semi professional label printers
Replies: 9
Views: 573

Re: semi professional label printers

I finally accepted I was never going to get round to using my clear Avery labels in conjunction with a laser printer so bought a Brother H101C from Costco which I plan to use for the collection. For the nursery I can't find anything better than my voice-activated label printer though this doesn't al...
by Stuart
Sat Feb 17, 2024 10:25 am
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: latest con
Replies: 14
Views: 927

Re: latest con

They'd have to have hacked Bill's account as the emails are sent to all on his contacts list and would only work if sent to those who know Bill as they're 'personalised' to make you reply by pretending to be from someone you know., The replies would go to an account that has been set up to look like...
by Stuart
Thu Feb 08, 2024 12:11 am
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: Looking for Echinopsis hybrids
Replies: 6
Views: 285

Re: Looking for Echinopsis hybrids

I brought 50 of the later Schicks from the Huntington years ago, after they'd stopped exporting and thought they'd be a good commercial investment for propagation. They just sat there, year after year, flowered well and stubbornly refused to offset. When they're not in flower they look like a 'Branc...