Every day new flowers in the greenhouse in Köln

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Re: Every day new flowers in the greenhouse in Köln

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photos from 30.October 2022, part 1/2, post 2/2


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Courage dear friends!



Best wishes

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Good evening dear cacti-friends,

today a few photos from the first November day's 2022, first part.




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photos from beginning of November 2022, part 1/2, post 2/2



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Re: Every day new flowers in the greenhouse in Köln

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Hey K.W. I missed being able to visit you while in the UK. Family issues caused the 2 weeks to be cut down to 1 week.
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mikethecactusguy wrote: Sat Nov 12, 2022 1:19 pm Hey K.W. I missed being able to visit you while in the UK. Family issues caused the 2 weeks to be cut down to 1 week.
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Good evening Mike,
yes very sad!
It would have been a great pleasure to have met you in person.
Hopefully there will be more opportunities.
Maybe I will make it to Arizona again - and then also to you.

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Re: Every day new flowers in the greenhouse in Köln

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Good evening dear cacti-friends,

in another forum I was asked if I will clear the plants from the greenhouses to the house/company.
Or whether I have to heat the greenhouses.

"Oh, everything still in the GWH !
Will you heat ?? "

They are not yet; they are already in the greenhouse.
Due to the mild weather, I have only put away very few plants.
Next week I will intensify the move into the greenhouses a bit.
Few plants will go into storage, mainly large and heavy hanging baskets.
Heating I will probably have to do in the greenhouses. . .



This is the lean-to greenhouse in front of the office.
The plants go into the office; then Haworthia & Co move into the greenhouse.
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The plants are distributed to the greenhouses, some come to the staircase to the office,
and some to the office.
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I can't move all the "stuff" into the company - everything stays in the greenhouse.
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The plants are also distributed to the greenhouses.
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The Sulcorebutia will stay there; however, the carport will get walls and thus become a greenhouse.
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K.W.
This is the first time I noticed the hinges on some of your roof's. Is there a reason for the moveable roof's. Heat? light?
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mikethecactusguy wrote: Thu Nov 17, 2022 1:42 pm K.W.
This is the first time I noticed the hinges on some of your roof's. Is there a reason for the moveable roof's. Heat? light?
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Good evening Mike,
the roofs are to protect the plants from rain.
I would like to be able to determine the humidity in the substrate alone.
Since it rained relatively much here until a few years ago, about 90 cm / 35.5 inches on the surface,
rain protection is the most important.
The closer the roof is above the plants the smaller the roof overhang must be above the plants.
But then I can only get to the plants bent over; much too uncomfortable!
So I can lift the roofs and with a straight back to the plants.
That's it.


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It tough getting old my friend. I'm finding as my plant grow bigger and there are more of them, my back lets me at times I'm a 66 year old OLD MAN....
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Re: Every day new flowers in the greenhouse in Köln

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Good evening dear cacti-friends,

a few photos from the last day's - today 17. November 2022.





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Lithops & Co

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Putting in the greenhouses continues slowly.
Looks like a storage room. . . And yes, it is a storeroom - but only for the winter!
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Courage dear friends!



Best wishes

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PS I guarantee, no milk in the substrate; not with the cacti and not with Conophytum or Lithops either!!!!
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I always like to see the pictures of plants in your homemade rolling tables above the stairs, every year!

I have also started to bring some plants inside. Some for the remaining of winter, some just for one night. We get a -5C for one night up here. So my winter active plants will be inside for one night as I fear my African bulbs might find that a bit too cold. The coming week the temperature will go up, so I can bring them back to the greenhouse again. In the next week or two I will have time to accomodate them in their frost free winter hiding spot in the greenhouse itself, which I need to set up first.
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Good morning Aiko,

thank you for the compliment.
I wish I could fit more plants on rolling pallets. . .
A low temperature of +/- 1°C was predicted for the last night - so quite a few plants can stay outside.
The greenhouses are also not heated yet, the substrate ( pumice, lava and zeolite ) keeps the temperature from the day for a few hours.
It's a new "game" every year, will it be cold, when will it be cold, will it freeze?
Leave the plants in the fresh air as long as possible, but do not risk damaging them.
Not for the faint of heart. .

I wish you good luck with your plants!

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Good morning dear cacti-friends,

today, at unusual time of day, some photos from November 21, 2022.



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Good evening dear cacti-friends,

today some photos from November 25, 2022.


The process of moving the cacti into the warmth continues,
two or three more days and the cacti will be in the house / greenhouse.


OMG, I'm going to have to clean those out thoroughly - I'll probably repot the twelve boxes. . .
The plants were very neglected, but have recovered well this year with me.
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photos from 25.November 2022, part 1/2, post 2/2


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Yes as written - everything into the office and greenhouses. . .
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The aphids on this Mammillaria are a good example of why I think it is important to
to take my plants in hand twice a year. Poison only where necessary!!!
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Courage dear friends!



Best wishes and good weekend,

K.W.




PS
José my friend, yes many leaves I have to put away. . .
But the good thing is - per leaf I get three cents from the homeowner.
About 120,000 leaves in the fall on the patio and roofs. . . €€€ :mrgreen: :wink:
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