Oh well , what do I know it's a spikey thing

Hi Marty Normally if it's RSM damage it's at the crown of the plant as they seem to like new soft growth, the marks normally appear several months after the attack so may have happened last yr (but I'm no expert). If it was sun burn it's normally just on one side of the plant & looking at the pu...

Must be as spiders would need to eat & there's not that many bugs inside a cacti ( we hope anyway)

Hi Len
Just send a pm to Vik, .

You may have to send a request to the Mods as they might miss this, it does seem very useful.

Hi all
Do you find that only some of the heads flower, my plant has 5 or 6 heads but only 3 flower & not even the main/originalhead, which semms odd.
Does anyone have a photo of the white form flowering ?,

Phil
an amazing amount of flowers on your plant.

Hi Vic
These are beautiful so whats the secret to growing them successfully.
Do you ever get any seed ?.

Lovely Mamm Diane but it seems spring was just visitng for the day, back to normal today manky & wet in MK.

Re the watering, does anyone have a theory that the first water should contain provado to get it in at the start of the growing season.

I have had similar 'bad results' with seeds from Penroc, as in I think I had 6 or 7 packs & not one seed has germinated yet so not very impressed.

Does anyone know how old or what size they have to be before they flower ?.
What is unusual is they were nearly the same size when I got them but now one has nearly doubled in size.
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