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- Fri Mar 22, 2024 8:46 pm
- Forum: Grown From Seed
- Topic: Ilvin's Lithops Seedlings
- Replies: 21
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Re: Ilvin's Lithops Seedlings
This time of year the old leaves of lithops shrivel up and are replaced with new ones. They will look like they're dying, just like your photo when this happens. Do not water until the old leaves are completely replaced with the new ones. Most people kill lithops because they look thirsty at this ti...
- Mon Jun 27, 2022 3:46 am
- Forum: Pollination
- Topic: Strombocactus seed are really tiny
- Replies: 11
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Re: Strombocactus seed are really tiny
I looked at them under a microscope, and they still looked like seeds, but maybe 1/5 as big as they're supposed to be. Maybe aborted seed?
Planted 80% of it and got 1 (one) seedling. Are there any tricks to improving seed set?
Planted 80% of it and got 1 (one) seedling. Are there any tricks to improving seed set?
- Mon Jun 20, 2022 3:18 am
- Forum: Grown From Seed
- Topic: Babies outside of container for first time. info?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3500
Re: Babies outside of container for first time. info?
It's hard to tell t pachanoi from Peruvianus. Bridgesii will be obvious as it gets larger, the stems are about half the diameter and more blue-gray. Pictured is pachanoi from Mesa garden, with the common hardware store pachanoi in the background. They're both about 6 years growth in those spots, and...
- Mon May 30, 2022 10:08 pm
- Forum: Pollination
- Topic: Strombocactus seed are really tiny
- Replies: 11
- Views: 5502
Re: Strombocactus seed are really tiny
I saw a video of ants carrying around a strombocactus fruit. Maybe the seeds drop out as the ant carries it? They also float, so rain will wash them around and into cracks and crevices.
- Mon May 30, 2022 10:02 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Imidacloprid soil soak?
- Replies: 26
- Views: 3728
Re: Imidacloprid soil soak?
You done need to drench them, just a normal watering. The plant will become toxic to the bugs for months, you don't need to drown the bugs.
- Mon May 30, 2022 10:00 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Shade cacti seedlings idea question.
- Replies: 5
- Views: 623
Re: Shade cacti seedlings idea question.
Yes, that will work well!
- Sat May 28, 2022 3:13 am
- Forum: Pollination
- Topic: Strombocactus seed are really tiny
- Replies: 11
- Views: 5502
Re: Strombocactus seed are really tiny
The proof will be in the pudding if they germinate... Could be aborted embryos, but they looked like the seeds in microscope photos online.
- Sat May 28, 2022 1:50 am
- Forum: Pollination
- Topic: Strombocactus seed are really tiny
- Replies: 11
- Views: 5502
Strombocactus seed are really tiny
For years I've been frustrated with my strombocacti, they flower reliably but always seemed to dry up without setting fruit like other cacti, the base of the flower would swell a tiny bit and then dry up within a couple weeks - never making what I'd consider a fruit. This year I had three different ...
- Fri May 27, 2022 7:04 am
- Forum: Member Blogs
- Topic: Josh's 2012
- Replies: 116
- Views: 29592
Re: Josh's 2012
Put up a harbor freight 10x12 GH this spring and plants are very happy so far.
- Wed May 25, 2022 6:19 pm
- Forum: Grown From Seed
- Topic: MrXeric's seedlings 2022
- Replies: 59
- Views: 22632
Re: MrXeric's seedlings 2022
The substrate looks too wet, that'll create problems for growing beyond germination. With the right moisture level and sanitation, there should be no algae or moss. It should be moist but not wet. Ideally it will dry out slightly on a daily basis due to the heat from the lights pushing moisture arou...
- Wed May 25, 2022 5:52 pm
- Forum: Seed Depot
- Topic: Looking for dudleya seed
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2607
Re: Looking for dudleya seed
Dudleya seed is ripe around mid-summer, mine are flowering now. Wait a few months and folks will have some on hand. Dudleya germinate best on living moss, so you can start work on a flat to start them in now. The inland varieties particularly grow on moss on rocks in habitat. I live where they live,...
- Tue May 17, 2022 5:29 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Hardest species to grow?
- Replies: 26
- Views: 5839
Re: Hardest species to grow?
A lot of the southern california plants, such as echinocactus polycephalus and echinomastus/sclerocactus are extremely picky and slow growing, but opuntia basilaris from the same habitat is very easy. I think the problem is they expect warmish winters and water during that time.
- Fri May 13, 2022 12:12 am
- Forum: Member Blogs
- Topic: Hana's cacti
- Replies: 2583
- Views: 421757
Re: Hana's cacti
I was able to keep pedio Knowltoni alive for several years watering only from late march-may (northern hemisphere), until I got careless. Most of their moisture comes from spring snow melt. Some of the others can take a bit in the autumn too. It's best to keep them in an obscure corner with other pl...
- Thu May 12, 2022 11:48 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Do you like cristate or monstrose forms in cacti?
- Replies: 39
- Views: 6287
Re: Do you like cristate or monstrose forms in cacti?
I prefer to grow plants from seed, so I don't have many weirdoes, but the ones I do have I cherish because they're my own personal cultivars.
- Thu May 12, 2022 11:33 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Most popular cactus sold?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 3758
Re: Most popular cactus sold?
Definitely the edible prickly pear is most common hereabouts, people plant it even in parks and ditches for later harvest - basically guerilla gardening. They're also common along fence lines on ag land for the same reason. I'd say echinopsis/trichocereus are the most common ornamentals - unlike typ...