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- Sat Jun 01, 2024 9:41 am
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: P asselliformis
- Replies: 13
- Views: 372
Re: P asselliformis
Me too, my asseliformis had existed from the 1970's, though I could not grow them as fast as Eric. After years of identical treatment on repotting it two years ago even though the plant looked OK it was hollow inside. Sometimes wonder if like humans these plants have an individual lifespan? RIP. Pel...
- Wed May 29, 2024 10:30 am
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Which Copiapoa?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 4021
Re: Which Copiapoa?
As has been said it is climatic conditions that generate the white wax on some Copiapoa's. Also in habitat they grow far slower and harder than in cultivation. Once you visit habitat as Benjy can tell you realise that plants in a population often vary far more than are found in cultivation, particul...
- Sun May 26, 2024 9:32 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Names and labelling
- Replies: 10
- Views: 669
Re: Names and labelling
Unless you have grown the plant from seed nobody has fully grown the plant to maturity. Most of us buy plants from dealers in various stages of maturity and even more so buying plants when collections are broken up. Ideally the judges ought to give the prize to the plant and leave off the owners nam...
- Fri May 24, 2024 9:39 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: John Innes compost
- Replies: 15
- Views: 704
Re: John Innes compost
Had a look on EBAY and Irish Peat moss is still available there. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/403778960834?itmmeta=01HYP4CC4RQ1V341NV1NXM0BGB&hash=item5e0319fdc2:g:b88AAOSwU8Ji1lpr&itmprp=enc%3AAQAJAAAA8EQTU34U6QAjaztQ6CR32011ms9zi50XyLdYRUpxlfVuLJSHTjiVjRvnHX90nyRojGIk2SEjuxUM%2FHkmuDX2VUwX9%...
- Fri May 24, 2024 11:19 am
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: John Innes compost
- Replies: 15
- Views: 704
Re: John Innes compost
Yes, interesting. As I said before a lot of top soil is now off building sites. One definition of good loam in very old gardening books was "the top spit (one spade depth) from virgin unploughed meadow land!" Something now hardly existing in Britain! In the 1970's the premier soil availabl...
- Thu May 23, 2024 11:21 am
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: John Innes compost
- Replies: 15
- Views: 704
Re: John Innes compost
Looks like the General Election has knocked any legal restrictions on peat use on the head since no more time for legislation to ban it and unlikely to be priority for the next government. Suppose now it is up to the Garden Centres and their suppliers whether it returns in commercial composts to rep...
- Tue May 21, 2024 6:06 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: John Innes compost
- Replies: 15
- Views: 704
Re: John Innes compost
El48tel I understood peat was supposed to be banned this year, but looking on the web they now seem to have backtracked? Many firms were starting to advertise JI composts as peat free, but it seems the gardeners not unnaturally still prefer peat? Great its still available since in many cases the mix...
- Tue May 21, 2024 2:23 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: John Innes compost
- Replies: 15
- Views: 704
Re: John Innes compost
There are probably no genuine John Innes composts available these days since both peat and loam are essential ingredients in the original mix. Its a wonder the Trades Description Act does not stop them still falsely trading on the John Innes name these days since they are not the original JI formula...
- Sat May 18, 2024 8:34 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: A friend calls this the spikey cucumber
- Replies: 5
- Views: 259
Re: A friend calls this the spikey cucumber
The virtually spineless form regarded by some as a cultivar called 'Cucumis' gets its name because of its cucumber like appearance. https://www.llifle.com/Encyclopedia/CACTI/Family/Cactaceae/14354/Echinocereus_cucumis However Kew accepts it as a valid subspecies' rather than a cultivar. https://powo...
- Mon May 06, 2024 9:33 am
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: To bin or not to bin, that is the question.
- Replies: 11
- Views: 591
Re: To bin or not to bin, that is the question.
With dry rot like that you can often peel away the dead tissue taking all the rot with it. In any case new roots cannot penetrate that hardened tissue you need to get back to clean tissue, leave it form a clean callous for a few days and then re-root.