It's worth remembering that the common "Ikea" Ficus "Ginseng" is a graft of F. retusa onto F. microcarpa, which is cheating a bit, a rather good explanation here: https://adamaskwhy.com/2014/09/24/this-was-a-ginseng-ficus-now-stfu-about-them-not-being-good-bonsai-subjects/ Also,...

Looking again at it, the majority of what can be seen seems to have originally been root, making it highly likely to be a plant raised (apologies for the pun) in the tropics, somewhere. Does root tend to stay green????? They do the same with Ficus to achieve the same sort of effect - https://www.ike...

Take a look on YouTube for videos about the plant in the Far East - places like Indonesia. Many will amaze or horrify you. The nearest thing I could compare to would be something like willow Bonsai - indestructible and grow like weeds. One or two websites offer a proffusion of different cultivars as...

As mentioned elsewhere, my stock of Rowland labels is running low.................. Rather extreme maybe, but I am in the process of changing to black labels using an engraver to write on them. OK, I already had the engraver, so that expense was avoided, but this sort of thing - https://www.amazon.c...

The question mark says it all, and not in connection with the spelling.

Someone uses my plant label shorthand - probably grown from seed (maybe a cutting from an unflowered parent), from GC (probably Graham Charles), who was unsure of exactly what it was.

The label shouts "lottery"!

As an experiment over a single plant a cool white (high blue) LED would be worth trying - wouldn't cost much. Using an LED, there would be almost no heat, so it could sit very close to the plant. I do not know the answer either, but how do the same plants look grown in S Spain or Italy, compare with...

Writing labels here, if I write "ex" it means that I have collected the seed from whatever comes after the "ex" (could be a place, could be a plant).
Maybe a similar principle?

Copper wire and tape, aluminium tape ( it's cheaper) all work perfectly if there's two rings 1/4 " or so apart connected to a 9v battery. I used crocodile clips on tape tabs. The slug/snail makes the circuit. Without the battery, forget it. I would suggest that an electic fence (circuit) works...

Minime8484 wrote: ↑Thu May 19, 2022 8:54 pm That looks like Cleistocactus brookeae, not Hildewinteria aureispina (=C. winteri).

Agreed, the flower does, but Cleistocactus brookeae is erect, not lax.

Could be an unusual clone of what it is labelled as.

The flower looks perfectly "fertilisable" (by moths? hummers?).

The CIC reference needs tracing.