el48tel wrote: ↑Sat Nov 14, 2020 4:39 pm I don't think Libre office has the capability of processing some of the more esoteric functions one finds in the recent versions of Excel.

I'm using Excel 2010, and it works with this level, so hardly a recent version! So my order has gone off to Aymeric.

That's an amazing achievement, congratulations to Al and the whole production team.

I have two Biogreen heaters, the original Arizona (2.8kw and fan) which came with an external thermostat similar to the Biogreen 2, and a Phoenix. I have them on the floor in my new (4 yr old) greenhouse, but used to have them on chains from the roof in my old one. I use an Biogreen thermostat with ...

I need new glasses, clearly!!

I can't see clearly enough to say, so I could just be way off beam, but could they be seed pods? M. carmenae has green pods, unlike the more usual red, and the position is right for there to be fruit. If I were you I'd try to cut one off and examine it inside.

The Rio Nazas is in Durango, I believe whereas M. duwei comes from west of San Luiz de la Paz in Queretaro. Certainly the plant in Aymeric de Barmon's gallery isn't M. guelzowiana. Could it be nazacensis? Not sure, as often this is pictured as having a yellow flower, though I've seen it with a pinki...

Nice seedlings! I don't immediately recognise the name, but it wouldn't surprise me if they turned out to be M. guelzowiana, though there area few other alternatives, such as M. nazacensis.

After a good watering, some of the larger flowered Mamms are responding with enthusiasm. sheldonii-minnichii.jpg Mammillaria sheldonii, the form which has been called minnichii grahamii-seed-coll-Tucson-AZ.jpg Mammillaria grahamii seed from habitat near Tucson sheldonii-M679.jpg Mammillaria mazatlan...

Nice plants Diane.

Hi, As far as sowing, whilst I 'would throw the seed away, because I don't think hybridisation is a good idea - but that's just me - but I'd wait a bit for the fruit to fully develop, then scrape out the seeds inside, give them a wash and dry on kitchen towel. Then you could plant, nothing special n...