Have you tried sowing any seed from the redder one Ian?

Nice plant Ross. Lithops-esque in its growth!

Great photo through the glass Darren. I wouldn't have known if you hadn't said.

Could it just be that the red flower is the result of recessive genes. These seeds may well have come from a red flowered plant, but the red genes have just not expressed themselves? Looking at the photos of 'red' plants I think this isn't a single gene locus kind of colour mutation - I reckon it w...

but not a seedling in sight. Got about 40 seedlings going along nicely from seed kindly sent to me. Hoping I can break the 18 months for a first flower by cheating and using my office in the autumn and winter to keep them growing! Someone on here suggested they're closer to Cereus I think than Echi...

I've sown seed of this this year from the same source and was hoping for at least reddish purples! Oh well at least the normal colour is so pretty!

Well done Terry and that played fine from the site unlike the last one - bizarre!

Do you know how old the plant is and have you tried crossing it with anything???

what should I be looking for if I take it out of its pot? Little or no roots, possibly dark/black roots that come off in your hands, check the base of the stem is solid and, as Ali said, possibly root mealy bug. If it's happy the roots should be fairly firm and you should see some evidence of new r...

Pooters! The hours of fun we had taking the filter off so others would suck the insects into their mouths!!!

Pattock wrote: ↑Sun Jul 11, 2021 12:32 pm Come on folks, where's the usual welcome committee?

You were doing such a good job!

Welcome back! Looking forward to some pictures and you might want to look at Agave utahensis to plant out too - sounds like your climate might be perfect for it!