Ray, just standard mix of JI2 or 3, grit and moler granules. But that was when JI compost was decent stuff! It hasn’t been repotted for years, is on a top shelf, and only gets watered when I remember! Mike, don’t do yourself down! Very nice plants! (I do have a much larger one, over 40 years old, bu...

Tina wrote: ↑Wed Oct 11, 2023 2:24 pm Beautiful, keep em coming. Did you grow most of them yourself ?.

Just shown me up as took a couple of 'in the greenhouse snaps' & you do nicely set up ones, I can't show em now unless I get the velvet out

Yes, grown myself, Tina. Let’s see yours!

It IS old, maybe 30 years, I’d guess.

Time for Ariocarpus to start flowering! First, Ariocarpus scaphirostris , 23 years old in a 9cm pot: IMG_1606.jpeg Ariocarpus trigonus in a 14 cm pot: IMG_1607.jpeg And Ariocarpus retusus (var. confusus?) in an 18 cm clay pot: IMG_1610.jpeg There are others, but I chose these as the best at the mome...

My very old plant of Lapidaria margaretae flowering nicely:

The first one might be Gasteria batesiana, which is quite a choice species, if it is. Second one is probably the cultivar ‘Little warty’. Hopefully someone with more knowledge can confirm or otherwise.

Amazing! And what a view!

How beautiful, Christian! I wish mine had such huge flowers as yours!

It looks happy enough there, maybe needs a bit more time? Mine has quite a few offsets, but doesn’t like as good as yours!