C and D's Succulents

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Some new friends had some great new plants for me

Albuca dilucula
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Trachyandra tortilis
that are way more wavy than my form
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Euphorbia horwoodii
This new growth on this grafted stem should be interesting
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Late season Lithops flowers

Lithops marmorata "Polepsky Smaragd"
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Lithops villetii deboeri
one of my favorites
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Lithops olivacea v. nebrownii
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Lithops olivacea
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My biggest Lithops cluster, at least 30 years old
Lithops karasmontana
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I lost some of my Dinteranthius during the move
Happy to have a full collection again, all flowering and forming seed pods

Dinteranthus pole-evansii
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Picked up a new Euphorbia species
Euphorbia clivicola
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Early Winter Flowers
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Lithops optica Rubra
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I post photos of this every year, so many flowers
Gibbaeum dispar
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Jensenobrotrya lossowiana
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Weird fungus growth on these Albuca unifolia x scabrocostatum
A spray of Physan 20 killed it
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The genus of Argyroderma are a baffling group
They all have very distinctive cup flowers
But there are so many different forms, from small clusters to fat singles
Species names are hard to confirm, so many go as Argyoderma sp.

They don't always flower, and the flowering season for me is from Sept to Feb.. for different species
are they winter growers or summer growers?

I have 4 or 5 forms of Argyroderma fissum
This one has the longest fingers
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Fat Argyrodermas
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Cheiridopsis speciosa
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The Aloinopsis schooneesii flowers brighten up the winter gloom
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First Frithia flower
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Frithia pulchra seedlings in full flower
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Tylcodon singularis in flower
Last year's seeds had terrible germination rates
Hopefully, this year's crop will be better
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The Tylecodon noltei seeds were very good the last couple of years
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These Aloinopsis spathulata are less than a year old
grown in the coir seed bed
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I do a lot of rooting of cuttings
Some species are easy, some are hard, some are impossible (at least seem impossible)

I've been doing Euphorbia piscidermis cuttings from grafted specimens for years
These ones are growing like gangbusters
Great roots
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Potted up
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C And D wrote: Wed Nov 15, 2023 11:46 pm Some new friends had some great new plants for me

Albuca dilucula
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Trachyandra tortilis
that are way more wavy than my form
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Muiria hortenseae
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The Muiria hortensae looks like little eggs with fur. Have yours flowered yet? Looking up the plant on the net, the flowers were very nice .
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One flowered in late June, the flowers are small and white
I crossed it with the one Gibbaeum album that flowered this year
Not sure if there are any seeds yet
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C And D wrote: Tue Feb 14, 2023 4:01 pm Here is a plant that I struggle with
but only after replanting, if I keep it in the commercial soil, it thrives
Delosperma sphalmanthoides
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Hey Craig

I bought 4 of these Delosperma sphalmanthoides from Home Depot this spring. I still have them in the original 2" pots and commercial peat moss mix. I've soaked them after they've gotten fully dry throughout the summer. Fertilizer maybe every 2 weeks. Eventually I planned on transplanting them. But now that you say you have had better success leaving them as they are, I'm not sure.

Its coming near time to overwinter here in NJ. I was going to keep these in my unheated garage with temps down to maybe neg 5. At least Llifle says they can take that. But it also says they are winter rain growers, which makes me think of keeping them in a heated room under artificial light. But... my goal was to keep them outdoors over winter.

What have you done with these since last posting about them?
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I have 3 plants, all repotted into my soil after I posted that.
They are kind of dormant now, but get watered regularly anyway

I think it depends on the time of the year for repotting
Fall being a good time
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C And D wrote: Wed Sep 11, 2024 11:17 pm I have 3 plants, all repotted into my soil after I posted that.
They are kind of dormant now, but get watered regularly anyway

I think it depends on the time of the year for repotting
Fall being a good time
Good to know. Thanks. So, I'll repot them and keep them warmer than my unheated garage over winter.
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Delosperma sphalmanthoides
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Baby lizard visiting a warm spot
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C And D wrote: Mon Sep 16, 2024 10:27 pm Baby lizard visiting a warm spot
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Great photo! :thumbright:
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