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iann
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That's peculiar

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Cheiridopsis peculiaris
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A few weeks ago it would have looked like this:
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Muria are a little peculiar all the time, but nice and hairy in winter
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Here they are a few weeks ago, just shedding their summer coats:
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Conophytum burgeri, a very peculiar one:
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Here's a more normal one:
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And in the middle of summer, don't throw out that pot yet!
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Beautiful set of plants Ian!
The Muria are so adorable, green fuzzies! How difficult are these to grow, any cultural notes you can share?
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Pushrestart wrote:Beautiful set of plants Ian!
The Muria are so adorable, green fuzzies! How difficult are these to grow, any cultural notes you can share?
Give them a very regular but light splash of water from August to May, so throughout winter. Don't let them be dormant in summer for too long. About two to three months.
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Aiko wrote:
Pushrestart wrote:Beautiful set of plants Ian!
The Muria are so adorable, green fuzzies! How difficult are these to grow, any cultural notes you can share?
Give them a very regular but light splash of water from August to May, so throughout winter. Don't let them be dormant in summer for too long. About two to three months.
Thank you kindly Aiko, will make note of this, so do they rest during the dead of winter and hot summer months? The rest of the year they're growing... interesting. 8-[
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No, no rest in winter. Only a short dry rest in summer. Give them all the light you can during winter and still give them a little bit of water every now and then.

But it is not easy to obtain a Muiria. Seeds are not much available (only from MSG and Silverhill Seeds occasionally, that I know of). Plants are basically never offered.
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Muiria certainly has a reputation for being difficult. Strangely I find it easier than the Gibbaeum alba that it grows and hybridises with. There are all sorts of crazy cultivation tips, but I'm not sure which are old wives tales and which might have some use.

It is a winter grower, but it doesn't seem to lose all control in my dark winters like many Gibbaeums. I do have trouble making it go dormant at all in summer, or at least sheathing over. It doesn't do anything quickly, and trying to push it is probably a good way to kill it. Regular small amounts of water in the cool seasons, mostly dry when it is warm. In my weak summers at least, start watering again as soon as it has dried out, unless maybe that happens to be during a freak heatwave.
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