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by anttisepp
Sat Mar 19, 2022 4:14 pm
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: name plse
Replies: 3
Views: 2290

Re: name plse

scousetigger wrote: Thu Aug 03, 2006 12:24 pm Mammillaria I think....but which??
M pringlei
by anttisepp
Sat Mar 19, 2022 4:10 pm
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: Can anyone help me ID this mystery Ferocactus?
Replies: 7
Views: 703

Re: Can anyone help me ID this mystery Ferocactus?

F stainesii pilosus undoubtedly, not gracilis.
by anttisepp
Sat Dec 25, 2021 3:04 pm
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: Seasonal greetings
Replies: 20
Views: 1673

Re: Seasonal greetings

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Many healthy and beautiful plants!
by anttisepp
Thu Nov 18, 2021 11:53 am
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: Cacti in Portugal
Replies: 49
Views: 8932

Re: Cacti in Portugal

Obrigado Fabião! I've got SIRO CATO substrate from Cacti Jardins. And a smaller sack of substrate "from abroad", another side of Guadiana, Ayamonte. )) Small dark stones seem like not safe because of possible heat damage. As I said I've got white marbel gravel 1cm +/- for an 1 euro per sac...
by anttisepp
Fri Nov 12, 2021 8:15 am
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: Cacti in Portugal
Replies: 49
Views: 8932

Re: Cacti in Portugal

So, I used SIRO CATO (with peat) + sand + cat litter 2+3+1 and leca as a drainage, all I could find there. The most difficult was finding a small stone gravel to cover the substrate surface of the pots but it's also available from building materials Company surprisingly very cheap. It's very interes...
by anttisepp
Sun Oct 24, 2021 9:10 pm
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: Selenicereus Grandiflorus doesn't like cold weather
Replies: 7
Views: 870

Re: Selenicereus Grandiflorus doesn't like cold weather

My Queen of the night didn't forgive me cold dry overwintering, dried out roots and bottoms of stems and didn't give no one bud next year. These ones need light for blooming, though maybe overwintering in the darkness is possible if flowering isn't a term of concern.
by anttisepp
Sun Oct 24, 2021 8:42 pm
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: This year’s Aloe seedlings
Replies: 5
Views: 860

Re: This year’s Aloe seedlings

Aloe plicatilis, also this year (2/2021) seedling.
by anttisepp
Fri Oct 01, 2021 12:55 pm
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: Cacti in Portugal
Replies: 49
Views: 8932

Re: Cacti in Portugal

OK, muito obrigado Fabião! (tu) Hope to make something on our small autumn vacations and first trip after a 2-year COVID-break. Want to sing foolish as mr. Bean ( Charles Trenet ) "La Mer" :mrgreen: Mat, there's a peat in both but german one consists an additional guano (!) :shock: which i...
by anttisepp
Thu Sep 30, 2021 9:32 pm
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: Agave talk & pictures
Replies: 626
Views: 81406

Re: Agave talk & pictures

Comparing to earlier shared here picters my ones are more than very modest. Some of my small and very young agaves, people don't very often grow them due to large dimensions, but it's impossible imagine collection without them. Hoping to move some luckies later in more suitable climate. The first, a...
by anttisepp
Thu Sep 30, 2021 9:03 pm
Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
Topic: Cacti in Portugal
Replies: 49
Views: 8932

Re: Cacti in Portugal

One more question. I find now two types of ready substrate for cacti and succulents in garden centers of Algarve: Floragard Kakteenerde (from Germany) and Siro Cato (Portugal). Ready substrate I use as a component of own mixture usually about 1/3 of volume. Who has an experience with these substrate...