Wow, a backyard super bloom! Looking great, Craig and Denise!

I've told you before and I'll tell you again - I just can't get enough of looking at that T. singularis!

Great photos! Thanks for inadvertently digging them up for us to see!

Sigh, more and more invasive grass every time I visit or see photos. Just like we saw with the Dome Fire, the fire risk is getting higher and higher every year, which absolutely decimates these non-fire adapted species and landscapes.

On a more positive note, great photos!!!

I have a single E. johnsonii. Does anyone know if they are self-compatible? If so, I may be able to get you some seed later this year. I have not tried selfing it in the past, and it has not simply self-fertilized and created a nice fruit for me to harvest.

I use 70% for my seedling areas Plus I have a sheet plastic film roof over it, that adds a little shade percentage I have 40% and 50% over most of my plants 60% over the Haworthias and Conos, and I add an extra layer of screen to it in the summer In a warm corner, I have an area with 70%, and use t...

Steve Johnson wrote: ↑Fri Feb 17, 2023 9:27 am In the meantime, here's a bit of shameless self-promotion...

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I had not seen it, thanks for sharing! Fantastic and thorough write-up. Cheers!

That's what I thought -- thanks, Kane! Of course, and I meant to add, it was a great question! Not at all obvious or how I may often think of that distance in other plants like the herbs that nursery owner grows until I stopped to think about the question. But, now I also wonder if high P will caus...

Steve Johnson wrote: ↑Fri Feb 17, 2023 5:56 am Stupid question...

"Internode distance" -- in cacti, is that the distance between individual tubercles?

Yeah, the distance between areoles would be the reasonable internode distance measurement for cacti.

That makes it all the better that you have preserved it! Perhaps one day it’s cutting will make it back to OSU

BryanT wrote: ↑Thu Feb 16, 2023 9:11 pm Monadenium ritchiei

Good call on that. But, it would be Euphorbia ritchiei as Monadenium has been subsumed back into Euphorbia

Looks to be Euphorbia, but not sure on the species based on just those leaves. Happen to have a picture of the mother?

Looks like it may have gotten some sunburn. That does not look like variegated Arios, that I have seen. The consistent placement of the lighter color around the plant, with newer growth not showing that same pattern are the giveaways I notice. Regardless, given the doubt, I’d certainly avoid adverti...

Absolutely! I try to create a mix of microbes in the soil (such as arbuscular mycorrhizae, ectomycorrhizae, Bacillus and Trichoderms strains, and others), some will form mutualistic associations with the seedlings directly on their roots or in the area immediately around the roots I'm the area known...

Rather than going full sterile, I simply sterilize for the initial germination (as well as spray Chinosol early on). But, I find that introducing beneficial microbes such as mycorrhizae, Bacillus, etc shortly after germination goes a lot further at preventing any pathogens from establishing. There a...