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- Sun Dec 31, 2023 4:22 pm
- Forum: Aloes, Gasteria, Haworthia Etc (The Haworthia Society)
- Topic: Aloe pictures
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2440
Re: Aloe pictures
That Gonialoe sladeniana is a super plant. Nowehere as easy to grow as G. variegata. I'm on the look out for G. dinteri if anyone has one spare or ever comes across one.
- Fri Dec 29, 2023 5:27 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Handling opuntia
- Replies: 33
- Views: 2631
Re: Handling opuntia
I visited Worfield Gardens when I was a kid, and got Sir Oliver to autograph his Desert Plants book for me. The other thing I remember most about my visit was a bunch of (British) geriatrics dressed up in ponchos and sombreros, as a Mexican band playing music (I suppose for the tea room).
- Tue Dec 26, 2023 4:37 pm
- Forum: Aloes, Gasteria, Haworthia Etc (The Haworthia Society)
- Topic: Todays photo
- Replies: 225
- Views: 53157
Re: Todays photo
I need to pot my seedlings on. They are a similar size but last year's!
- Sat Dec 23, 2023 2:06 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: UK nurseries since brexit
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2003
Re: UK nurseries since brexit
I'll send Ian a message to let him know his site is down.
Seeing as the weather is quite warm at present, I've put my sales / swaps page back online for now, in case anyone is looking for Xmas presents....
Seeing as the weather is quite warm at present, I've put my sales / swaps page back online for now, in case anyone is looking for Xmas presents....
- Sat Dec 23, 2023 2:04 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Handling opuntia
- Replies: 33
- Views: 2631
Re: Handling opuntia
Lay down horizontally? Isn’t it easier if you’re standing vertically? 😊 You are doing it wrong if you are standing vertically in the festive season... :lol: Seriously, I'd try to ease the plant out of the pot horizontally as suggested, onto cumpled up sheets of newspaper or a polystyrene sheet, to ...
- Mon Dec 18, 2023 1:05 pm
- Forum: Aloes, Gasteria, Haworthia Etc (The Haworthia Society)
- Topic: H. cv Phoenix?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1535
Re: H. cv Phoenix?
I find that it is not uncommon for this and similar Hawothiopsis to lose one to many leaves, often on the same side, but it's rather less common for a whole head to go. I'm glad it still had some growing points at the bottom to "reboot" itself from.
- Mon Dec 18, 2023 1:00 pm
- Forum: Aloes, Gasteria, Haworthia Etc (The Haworthia Society)
- Topic: Aloe flowers today
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1926
Re: Aloe flowers today
Good range of different flowers in that lot, Mike, disproving the "All small aloes have similar flowers" mantra.
- Mon Dec 18, 2023 12:58 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Baobab seed pre treatment
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1150
Re: Baobab seed pre treatment
I sowed some seed earlier this year, and got 2 plants from 5 seeds without pretreatment. I don't know where I would find space for 5 baobabs, anyway.
- Mon Dec 18, 2023 12:52 pm
- Forum: The Cactus & Succulent Plant Forum
- Topic: Unusual Homalocephala
- Replies: 6
- Views: 516
Re: Unusual Homalocephala
With luck, it's an offset, although I have what may be described as woolly warts develop on a similar way on Rebutias - somewhat misshaped, and with areoles with wool rather than spines. I presume they are rather like the lumps you see on trees sometimes, which I believe are caused by a bacterial in...
- Fri Dec 08, 2023 10:25 am
- Forum: Aloes, Gasteria, Haworthia Etc (The Haworthia Society)
- Topic: Todays photo
- Replies: 225
- Views: 53157
Re: Todays photo
IWell done Allan - I hope some of my own seedlings come out as good as yours!