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by NTCHBL
Sun Sep 02, 2012 3:32 am
Forum: Sick Cacti - Pests, Diseases, etc.
Topic: Epiphyllum has white fungus like growth?
Replies: 12
Views: 3622

Re: Epiphyllum has white fungus like growth?

I believe mine is Euphorbia Trigona. I've got a couple o new starts I cut off of Fred last time I was at the house. I'll take some pictures as soon as they're growing a bit better and post them.
by NTCHBL
Thu Aug 30, 2012 8:59 am
Forum: Sick Cacti - Pests, Diseases, etc.
Topic: Epiphyllum has white fungus like growth?
Replies: 12
Views: 3622

Re: Epiphyllum has white fungus like growth?

Just thought I'd pop in and update on the Epi, Fred and the numerous cuttings taken from the Epi. Grannie wasn't too keen on spraying insecticides on plants that never go outside, so I had her try a recipe using black tea, a bit of dawn dish soap, and water. The recipe said you could use it as a roo...
by NTCHBL
Tue Jan 10, 2012 6:57 pm
Forum: Sick Cacti - Pests, Diseases, etc.
Topic: Epiphyllum has white fungus like growth?
Replies: 12
Views: 3622

:shock: Wow thats a nasty infestation of mealies, the one thing i didnt see mentioned was if it was next to other plants cacti or non cacti, which it looks like it was by others in the pic i would deffinately inspect AND OR treat all plants as they might have spread to the other plants. I had grann...
by NTCHBL
Mon Jan 09, 2012 2:45 pm
Forum: Member Blogs
Topic: NTCHBL's spineys and not so spineys.
Replies: 12
Views: 1547

It's a rather ancient digital p.o.s. Gateway DC-M40, made in 2003 :shock: It has good days and bad days depending on how recently it was used and how many pictures it gets used to take. When I took the aloe pictures it hadn't been used since about a week before Xmass when I used it for the Secret Sa...
by NTCHBL
Sat Jan 07, 2012 12:59 pm
Forum: Member Blogs
Topic: NTCHBL's spineys and not so spineys.
Replies: 12
Views: 1547

Managed to get a few more reasonably decent pictures before my camera decided to eat my last set of good batteries lol Some are of the same babies I've previously posted but I enjoy sharing so I'll post em anyway. Kalanchoe Eriophylla http://pic100.picturetrail.com/VOL744/11597338/23989093/400404029...
by NTCHBL
Fri Jan 06, 2012 10:21 pm
Forum: Member Blogs
Topic: NTCHBL's spineys and not so spineys.
Replies: 12
Views: 1547

Some succulent babies. Portulacaria afra. "Elephant food" http://pic100.picturetrail.com/VOL744/11597338/23989093/400399247.jpg Echeveria runyonii http://pic100.picturetrail.com/VOL744/11597338/23989093/400399249.jpg http://pic100.picturetrail.com/VOL744/11597338/23989093/400399250.jpg Gas...
by NTCHBL
Fri Jan 06, 2012 10:16 pm
Forum: Member Blogs
Topic: NTCHBL's spineys and not so spineys.
Replies: 12
Views: 1547

Baby Torchies! Not sure the exact species here but they were labeled "Torch Cactus" http://pic100.picturetrail.com/VOL744/11597338/23989093/400399238.jpg http://pic100.picturetrail.com/VOL744/11597338/23989093/400399239.jpg Golden Ball, camera wasn't too cooperative with this one. http://p...
by NTCHBL
Fri Jan 06, 2012 9:12 pm
Forum: Member Blogs
Topic: NTCHBL's spineys and not so spineys.
Replies: 12
Views: 1547

I need to clean the coffee table and get my camera back out lol it seems that when there is a clean coffee table, clutter materializes out of thin air to occupy it.

I just realized there's cans and foam in the pictures :oops: Please forgive my mess.
by NTCHBL
Fri Jan 06, 2012 7:20 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Mammsickle
Replies: 13
Views: 1069

We had a little cluster of cacti growing in our driveway when I was a kid that would go kind of a ruddy purplish color when the cold got to them. We're talking winters where they'd be buried under a foot of snow most of the season. They looked about like that every time it thawed after the snow had ...
by NTCHBL
Thu Jan 05, 2012 11:14 pm
Forum: Sick Cacti - Pests, Diseases, etc.
Topic: Epiphyllum has white fungus like growth?
Replies: 12
Views: 3622

I crushed a couple when I was up there and didn't notice any color change in the fluffy junk or the cactus flesh below, really I only messed with it because I'd never seen the like before. So, I suppose it's safe to assume these are the mealies. The picture in my head when "Mealies" is men...
by NTCHBL
Thu Jan 05, 2012 9:32 pm
Forum: Sick Cacti - Pests, Diseases, etc.
Topic: Epiphyllum has white fungus like growth?
Replies: 12
Views: 3622

I'd assumed Mealies were bugs. Correct me if I'm wrong please :)
This is a white frothy soft growth almost similar in texture to dried out bread mold.
by NTCHBL
Thu Jan 05, 2012 7:31 pm
Forum: Sick Cacti - Pests, Diseases, etc.
Topic: Epiphyllum has white fungus like growth?
Replies: 12
Views: 3622

Epiphyllum has white fungus like growth?

Uncles monster has been growing this strange fluffy white fungus like material. I wasn't aware until I went to visit a week or so ago. I'm kinda scared for the plant as the areas that had the thickest coating of the stuff have started to die off. Some parts of the plant which were big and healthy la...
by NTCHBL
Thu Jan 05, 2012 7:27 pm
Forum: Cacti Identification
Topic: My uncle's ugly monster.
Replies: 5
Views: 781

I got grannie to get a cell phone picture this morning of the big guy. The larger size image shows him a lot better but the forum shrunk the picture. My African Milk Tree can be seen on the left with some of the Epi stringing along behind it. http://pic100.picturetrail.com/VOL744/11597338/23989093/4...
by NTCHBL
Wed Jan 04, 2012 11:16 pm
Forum: Member Blogs
Topic: NTCHBL's spineys and not so spineys.
Replies: 12
Views: 1547

More tomorrow, or maybe later, depending on how cooperative my ancient brick of a digital camera decides to be.
by NTCHBL
Wed Jan 04, 2012 10:51 pm
Forum: Member Blogs
Topic: NTCHBL's spineys and not so spineys.
Replies: 12
Views: 1547

The Monster: This is the plant I mentioned in my first post. It's an aloe of some sort or another. There were three big plants in the pot when it came home, I kept the largest of the three drooping, mushy, dying aloes in the original pot and re-potted the rest. They're all healthy as horses now and ...