Ferocactus rescue success
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Mike
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Ferocactus rescue success
I acquired this plant eighteen months ago. It had been sat, neglected outside for several years in a pot with virtually no drainage. It had no roots but miraculously had not rotted. I cut off the top, less-badly marked half (that required thick gloves!) and stood it in a large saucer of cat litter. By the end of last year it had started rooting and now it's flowering, and is the first Fero I've flowered. I'm guessing it's F. glaucescens. Does that seem right?
Mike
Based in Wiltshire and growing a mix of cacti and succulents.
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AndrewB
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Re: Ferocactus rescue success
Hi,
Nice flowers!
As a bit of a beginner to Ferocacti, I would say it looks like glaucescens to me.
Rod & Ken Preston-Mafham seem to agree in their book, so to do Clive Innes & Charles Glass by the looks of things.
Nice flowers!
As a bit of a beginner to Ferocacti, I would say it looks like glaucescens to me.
Rod & Ken Preston-Mafham seem to agree in their book, so to do Clive Innes & Charles Glass by the looks of things.
Andrew
Interested in most genera of small to medium ‘globular’ cacti, large flowering Mammillaria, Epiphyllum, Trichocereus, Hildewintera, Cleistocactus etc, small Agaves, Lithops, Titanopsis, Faucaria etc, plus hybridising.
Interested in most genera of small to medium ‘globular’ cacti, large flowering Mammillaria, Epiphyllum, Trichocereus, Hildewintera, Cleistocactus etc, small Agaves, Lithops, Titanopsis, Faucaria etc, plus hybridising.