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by el48tel
Mon Sep 13, 2021 11:52 am
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: gardening with succulents
Replies: 8
Views: 827

Re: gardening with succulents

Paul in Essex wrote: Mon Sep 13, 2021 8:07 am You should have said something. Always nice to put faces to names. :smile:
Apologies
by el48tel
Mon Sep 13, 2021 7:50 am
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: gardening with succulents
Replies: 8
Views: 827

Re: gardening with succulents

Paul in Essex wrote: Sun Sep 12, 2021 8:10 pm Back home now and catching up. Thank you gentlemen! It was my pleasure - I don't venture to The North very often but always enjoy it when I do.
Terry, were you the chap with the Beaucarnea?
Paul
That is correct .... to be more correct, I have a couple of them.
To be relabelled later today.
by el48tel
Sun Sep 12, 2021 6:53 pm
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: Faucaria tuberculosa
Replies: 1
Views: 291

Faucaria tuberculosa

Purchased yesterday
Flowered today
Looking like non-spikey is more interesting than spikey
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by el48tel
Sun Sep 12, 2021 11:56 am
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: Insecticide
Replies: 21
Views: 2320

Re: Insecticide

Could be part of a multi strand attack programme not relying entirely (and unsuccessfully) on one product
by el48tel
Sun Sep 12, 2021 11:55 am
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: Echinopsis hahniana
Replies: 6
Views: 868

Re: Echinopsis hahniana

gorgeous flower
by el48tel
Sun Sep 12, 2021 7:58 am
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: Finally Frailea
Replies: 3
Views: 515

Re: Finally Frailea

(tu)
by el48tel
Sat Sep 11, 2021 11:23 pm
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: gardening with succulents
Replies: 8
Views: 827

Re: gardening with succulents

And it was most certainly an excellent evening
by el48tel
Sat Sep 11, 2021 10:01 am
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: Good news/bad news
Replies: 52
Views: 7029

Re: Good news/bad news

Even then the rate of cellular mitosis would have to be extraordinary. I wonder whether they use cellular expansion rather than solely generating new cells to expand? I'm not a biologist or botanist, but I do vaguely remember a TV programme relating to mathematical shapes in living organisms, regar...
by el48tel
Sat Sep 11, 2021 7:17 am
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: gardening with succulents
Replies: 8
Views: 827

Re: gardening with succulents

Hopefully will be attending the meeting this evening. So looking forward to seeing and talking to REAL people and looking at REAL plants too. Virtual world has less appeal. Just what folk get from VR escapes me. An evening in the company of friends rather than sitting in front of the screen has much...
by el48tel
Fri Sep 10, 2021 2:35 pm
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: White plastic labels
Replies: 57
Views: 5117

Re: White plastic labels

I don't think there's a one-size-fits-all solution. El cheapo labels are just that and disintegrate after 2 summers. The better labels are just too expensive and environmentally too unsound. The print-on computer or type-in labels are lovely to look at, but when added to the cost of better plastic l...