Hi Everyone! I think I caught the C&S bug (knocking on wood for no real bugs though!). My two highly anticipated Myrtillocactus geometrizans cv. Fukurokuryuzinboku (I'll use MGF from now on) arrived earlier today (I know, a silly one, but I refrained myself for about 3 weeks after seeing one for...

Thank you all! Looks like the general consensus is I haven't done anything terribly wrong except 1) mixing species/genera together and 2) keeping them sealed/covered for too long after initial germination. Easy to fix when I sow each one in a separate 2x2 inch container. The current container has ho...

Hi Everyone, I am slowly getting ready to sow some seeds I acquired from the BCSS and MSG seed lists, but, quite luckily I must say, I first sowed a few other packets ("Faucaria mix", Crassula Buddha's temple and Graptopetalum rusbyi) and need to ask for some advice. I have used an oven st...

Regret the cristate part dried up last summer, the normal offsets probably sucked all of the goodness out of it! I am afraid this might be happening to my plant as well, the cristate part is not looking very healthy. I will take care of it as soon as the soil dries up so that there is at least a li...

Tony R wrote: ↑Wed May 20, 2020 7:30 pm Yes, it is an easy plant to propagate. These 'cuttings' were all removed from my cristate plant last year and have grown on into sturdy little plants:

You have a nice band here Tony! Would you have a photo of the cristate specimen at hand?

edds wrote: ↑Wed May 20, 2020 6:19 pm [...] Two plants for the price of one!

4+ easily! I got a not ideal, but pretty decent refund on this, so in the end I am okay with the outcome. Maybe just a little disappointed I need to chop it into pieces, but life goes on (well, I wish this was my biggest problem ever)!

Leaves won't regrow on the bare stems but if you cut the long stems back it may branch from the cut ends and make a more compact plant. It's very easy to grow with plenty of sun. Stuart That's my plan now, although I was hoping to get a nice, big "centrepiece" for my collection... Maybe i...

Gutted I missed the talk! Are they recorded and available somewhere afterwards? I would love to catch up on some of them.

[...] The leaves come off this plant quite easily and I wouldn't fancy posting the plant on the left without half the leaves falling off in the post. The plant as it looks now looks a bit past its sell-by date, I'd take it apart and root the cuttings. It's correctly named but not really living up t...

Hi Everyone, I have a question with regard to a newly acquired Pachyphytum compactum. The plant was purchased on eBay (from an established seller, as if it changes anything...), so all I could assess beforehand were the photos, with which I am usually okay, especially as the auction description clea...