C and D's Succulents

[C And D]

Ian, the one above has never flowered yet, I'm not sure why?

Pleiospilos bolusii, flowers every evening for 2 or 3 weeks

Dorstenia foetida left, Dorstenia lavoranus right

[iann]

Those wacky Pleiospilos! Everyone says they flower in autumn but that's about the only time mine don't flower

[Tony]

My Pleiospilos bolusii have just started bloomin last week too.

[Buck Hemenway]

Mine too

[C And D]

Now that fall is approaching, there is a lot of mesemb growth, and they are looking good enough for a photo or two
Dinteranthus microspermus v. pubes. white/pink flowered form

Lithops ruschiorum, early flowers


Schwantesia ruedbuschii variations, with "marlothii" on right

Schwantesia borcherdsii's and Jutterdinteria albata


My Tanquana collection has these mottled colors this year, too much fert ?


Getting a little stirring in the Conophytum arena
Cono. globosa look perfect for tis time of year



C. ratum with flower forming under the old skin, so I liberated it to cross pollinate with her friends

[iann]

Lithops ruschiorum is another one that rarely flowers over here. I have theories on why but so far different treatments haven't given me reliable flowers. I'm still working on getting several to flower at once

Those Tanquanas look sunburnt, although I've never seen a sunburnt Tanquana. Its all I can do to make T. hilmarii go purple

The C. globosa looks better with half its skin still on than it does as a plain green ball My main flowering season hasn't quite arrive yet. Is it autumn already in CA?

[C And D]

A lot of Mesemb growth activity these days, here's some with nice colors
Glottiphyllum neilii

and the different G. nelii

Faucaria tigrina, purplish one

Lilac and white

Trichodiadema fergusoniae, with really fat roots

[C And D]

Ian, no its not fall yet here, we call this the start of the monsoon season, we don't get any rain here by the coast, but in the deserts, it rains a lot in the afternoons this time of year, and its humid

[C And D]

As we discussed about the Lithops lesliei v. rubrobrunnea from the show, That one was bigger and had no patterns on the face
here is my pot, of 7 different clones, they stay small and are very patterned

[iann]

Did the sun brown them off?

[C And D]

Lithops gracilidelineata, early flowers, several clones, L. lesliei v. hornii on left

[iann]

Yes, L. gracilidelineata flowers in August for me too, although var waldroniae flowered weeks ago and ssp brandbergensis is just about finished too.

[C And D]

Successful pollination

Psuedolithos migiurtinus

P. cubiforme over growing their little pot

P. migiurtinus x P. dodsonianii seedlings 2 yo


Everyone will want one of these, until they find out how much they cost
Whitesolona crassa

[C And D]

Some Euphorbia's
The graft stock started dying on this, so I pulled it off, let it callous, and it started to shoot out roots very quickly, now planted
E piscidermis


E. columnaris

E. horwoodii

[C And D]

some more mesemb fun
look at these seeds on this Dinteranthus vanzylii, 1000s of em


compared to this Lithops wernerii


I good success on these seeds of mine
Vanheerdea primosii, I hope I can keep them growing

And I am hoping for success with this pot of L. rubra and Hammer ruby


The Conophytum friedrichiae have just informed me that they like to bloom early. And the C. verrucosum on the left will catch up soon.


But these C. ectypum varieties will bloom when they are ready, and those two pots are not ready yet.