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- Sun Aug 10, 2014 11:40 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Are these healthy?
- Replies: 47
- Views: 7278
Re: Are these healthy?
The worst part about using unglazed ceramic pots is when you come to repot your plants in them and you have to rip off so much root tissue which is stuck right to the side of the pots as the plant has tried to root into the clay. Sure they help plants to dry out faster, but if your plants are health...
- Sun Aug 10, 2014 11:21 pm
- Forum: Cultivation
- Topic: Pale greenish yellow cactus
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1418
Re: Pale greenish yellow cactus
Did you get your plant from David Quail (Aristocacti)? I've heard from others that some of his plants suffer from Magnesium deficiency, since he grows these slow growing types in seed trays for the first few years. Perhaps adding a little epsom salts to your next watering would be beneficial. Howeve...
- Sat Aug 09, 2014 2:00 am
- Forum: Cacti Identification
- Topic: Does anyone know what my cacti are?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 946
Re: Does anyone know what my cacti are?
They're all a bit etiolated and would benefit from more light.
1. Mammillaria polythele
2. Euphorbia enopla
3. Cleistocactus strausii
1. Mammillaria polythele
2. Euphorbia enopla
3. Cleistocactus strausii
- Sat Aug 09, 2014 1:54 am
- Forum: Cacti Identification
- Topic: identification
- Replies: 5
- Views: 825
Re: identification
A monstrose Eriosyce of some kind. Maybe the one usually sold as Neochilenia cv 'China Wonders'.
- Tue Aug 05, 2014 8:09 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Are these healthy?
- Replies: 47
- Views: 7278
Re: Are these healthy?
The plants themselves look healthy, but that will soon change if you don't get them out of that terrible looking soil mix. Repot into a mix with far less organic matter.
- Tue Aug 05, 2014 8:03 pm
- Forum: Cacti Places
- Topic: Anyone ever been to the Atacama, Chile?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2464
Re: Anyone ever been to the Atacama, Chile?
I know an English-speaker who lives in San Pedro de Atacama. I would love to visit some day. Touring the entirety of Chile would be awesome.
- Tue Aug 05, 2014 8:00 pm
- Forum: Cacti Places
- Topic: UK online nurseries
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3620
Re: UK online nurseries
I've bought lots of cacti on ebay in the UK over the past three years and haven't yet had a bad experience. If you look at the individual feedback comments on a seller's rating, you get a feel for the reliable sellers. Good call, I have had some very nice plants from uk ebay sellers. As have I, but...
- Tue Aug 05, 2014 7:41 pm
- Forum: Sick Cacti - Pests, Diseases, etc.
- Topic: Root tuber gone wrong
- Replies: 4
- Views: 711
Re: Root tuber gone wrong
Probably rot. Doesn't sound healthy whatever happened to it.
- Sun Aug 03, 2014 6:10 pm
- Forum: Cacti Identification
- Topic: Two Columnars for ID please
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1093
Re: Two Columnars for ID please
Echinopsis spachiana and Pilosocereus pachycladus are my guesses.
- Sun Aug 03, 2014 6:09 pm
- Forum: Cacti Identification
- Topic: whats this scion
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1150
Re: whats this scion
Sulcorebutia arenacea, I guess.
- Sun Aug 03, 2014 6:07 pm
- Forum: Cacti Identification
- Topic: Need help identifying this seedling
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1446
Re: Need help identifying this seedling
I disagree, looks like Carnegiea gigantea - Saguaro. E. grusonii seedlings are stouter and have a different aerole structure.
- Thu Jul 31, 2014 9:35 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: NEED HELP FINDING OUT THE NAME OF THIS CACTUS
- Replies: 41
- Views: 6219
Re: NEED HELP FINDING OUT THE NAME OF THIS CACTUS
There is a subforum specifically for cactus identification. More people would see probably your post there. The smaller plant in the pot is Stenocereus pruinosus, but I'm not sure what the big one is.
- Thu Jul 31, 2014 4:40 pm
- Forum: Cacti Identification
- Topic: Mammillaria name please
- Replies: 2
- Views: 498
Re: Mammillaria name please
Mammillaria schiedeana.
- Mon Jul 28, 2014 9:46 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Slightly over-potted?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2023
Re: Slightly over-potted?
Here's another one. Copiapoa hypogaea ssp tenuissima. Odd question for you, Ian -- when you transplant cacti, do you center them in the pot? My reason for asking is that I'm pretty good at centering mine, and I notice that a number of them go through "continental drift" as their root grow...
- Mon Jul 28, 2014 2:07 am
- Forum: Grown From Seed
- Topic: More seedlings
- Replies: 1
- Views: 653
Re: More seedlings
They look good!