But very, very pretty.

OOoooh, pretty....

I have a couple of those just getting out of the cotyledon stage. Can't wait to seem them like that.

Clickable to go to a larger version https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-HzLY4Nl7WQU/ThcSJ954V_I/AAAAAAAAAow/6mYsLhP0P7I/s400/2011-07-07_111.jpg This is Pterodiscus sp. aff. aurantiacus , I got this particular plant from Aridlands in Tucson about 2 years ago, this is the first time it has bloomed for...

The plant is close to flawless - I only see two leaves with apparent damage, wish I could count on my plants being so well brought up. I was very sad when I knocked the farina off those leaves setting up to take the shot. It's an endless battle to keep my wife and son from stroking them and going &...

Very nice plant

I kill those guys with remarkable alacrity. I have yet to have one survive a winter, even this year in a dry greenhouse.

It has been a long long long and grey spring in the Pacific Northwest, but finally we have been having some sunny days. Recent action: Rebutia canigueralii https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-_NBNJM7gVRU/TfODA3BagSI/AAAAAAAAAnI/7inTrK3xEhg/s400/Rebutia%252520canigueralii.jpg Rebutia pseudodeminuta ht...

iann wrote: The first sign that a Lithops is too hot is often that the whole plant bleaches and dies.

Please, don't remind me of the day in June last year when we actually got sunlight

(They looked like a parboiled chicken, it was not at all nice)

Harriet wrote:Learning to climb is good, it is when it learns to walk that you have a problem...

Particularly if they grow little knob things that they can bang on their trunks to communicate with... and then a green meteor shower comes.

Nice looking plant, one of my favorites.

I have a variety of this genus growing from Mesa Garden seed, but they are all still at the tubercle stage rather than the ribs stage. Adult spines are starting to appear though, so hopefully ribs are not far behind.

Good growing!

Tim, they all look empty. I only have the one plant, so I'm not all that surprised.

Down in the greenhouse, Mammillaria huitzilopochtli is having a bit of a bad hair day. Camera-phone picture, so not up to my usual standards. :D http://www.cactiguide.com/forum/userpix/1774_huitzilopochtli_1.jpg (As an added challenge, how many Lithops can you see in the two pots just behind this pl...

It has always amused me that the "Horse Crippler" has such delicate pink frilly blooms. With a common name like that you'd expect giant razor edged things with blood red edges and accessory barbed spines on the anthers. Well, I would anyway... Nice blooms. I'm hoping my E. texensis will bl...

Nice plants


I don't know what it is about them. I love them, yet kill them with an efficiency that I fail to achieve in any other area of my life

(Yet somehow I can keep Pseudolithos alive...)

Did you use any "different" conditions from other C&S seeds? I've tried to start Dioscorea a couple of times from commercial seed sources using a pretty standard baggie/"surface" sow method and have had no luck. ["surface" in this case meaning sown on their side aft...

CoronaCactus wrote:H. kennedyana would explain the teeth but I don't think it was anywhere near the H. insigniflora...opposite sides of the house.

But that's no impediment to a determined fruitfly