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- Mon Jan 08, 2024 9:06 am
- Forum: Small Opuntias (Tephrocactus Study Group)
- Topic: It just needed the opposite of TLC
- Replies: 2
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It just needed the opposite of TLC
What a difference harsh growing conditions has made to this plant. I bought it because it looked odd and couldnt immediately decide what it was and have now grown it for three years in one of the unheated greenhouses at my allotment. Result is that the new growth is now typical and it reveals itself...
- Sun Jan 07, 2024 9:38 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: It's going to get cold.
- Replies: 28
- Views: 2686
Re: It's going to get cold.
It gets worse…..I noticed today I have Primroses in flower.
Oddly this morning it was a couple of degrees above freezing when I got up at 6:30 but when I went into the garden at 9:30 there was a light frost and it was down to zero in both greenhouses. I have switched on the heating for tonight.
Oddly this morning it was a couple of degrees above freezing when I got up at 6:30 but when I went into the garden at 9:30 there was a light frost and it was down to zero in both greenhouses. I have switched on the heating for tonight.
- Sat Jan 06, 2024 3:30 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: It's going to get cold.
- Replies: 28
- Views: 2686
Re: It's going to get cold.
And about time too. We have Cameilas in flower, snowdrops almost out and Eucomis which haven’t finished dying down yet. If my mother was still alive she’d be saying ‘it all needs putting back in its place’.
- Fri Jan 05, 2024 4:06 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Updated seed lists
- Replies: 695
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Re: Updated seed lists
Yes I just placed an order.
- Fri Dec 29, 2023 6:49 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Handling opuntia
- Replies: 35
- Views: 3462
Re: Handling opuntia
This one Tony.
- Fri Dec 29, 2023 7:47 am
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Handling opuntia
- Replies: 35
- Views: 3462
Re: Handling opuntia
I also have that book.
- Thu Dec 28, 2023 7:26 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Handling opuntia
- Replies: 35
- Views: 3462
Re: Handling opuntia
About 1minute 15 seconds in is the real way to handle Opuntias!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nk7S98g8R7E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nk7S98g8R7E
- Tue Dec 12, 2023 8:05 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Pterocactus tuberosus winter care
- Replies: 9
- Views: 897
Re: Pterocactus tuberosus winter care
I grow most of my Pterocacti in an unheated greenhouse and do cut the top growth off P tuberosus as it leads to a more natural looking plant. In habitat they lose the top growth each year and grow new flowering stems from the tuber so what you are growing is in effect a flowering tuber. The exceptio...
- Mon Nov 27, 2023 1:14 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: What to do with extra time
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3319
Re: What to do with extra time
I believe they are still pursuing a building to house it in.
- Mon Nov 27, 2023 11:07 am
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: What to do with extra time
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3319
Re: What to do with extra time
I quite like this one for its chapter on nomenclature. It has a dedication from Vera Higgins to a F H C from April 1933.