I recently have got some newcomers... First of all - a Loph. Said to be 3 years old...
Next - two Gymnocalicim Damsii. They were sold as one plant and were growing so close to each other that they even pulled themselves our of their pot! One of them has 3 buds... I separated them, washed them of peat, dried them and potted them as neighbors. Looks good, don't you think?
The next is an Aylostera muscula... It has nice roots, but unfortunately it had a rotting near the root.
So I had to skin its base (peat was very attached to it's gentle spikes so the only way to remove it was to remove them as well) and tried to make a surgery. It looked good and fresh inside but now after a week on the air the hole looks brown. The surface is hard here inside. I am not sure that it will not start rotting again as it will get into the soil
Any thoughts about it?
And my today's free cactus... I went in a flower shop and found it lying on the floor in the cactus area without a pot, just in the piece of peat. I asked about it and was told that I can take it if I like, because it will not sell anyway. It had three root offsprings - one completely dry and dead, and two barely alive that were looking really bad. I came home and removed the peat from the roots... and roots just fell apart into the dust. I cant even imagine how long this poor cactus was without any water. I've cutted all the dry roots and this is what it looks like now...
I've cut the offsprings and threw them away. The cactus itself looks quite good. Gymnocalycium of some kind...
And there are like a hundred seedlings growing in a small box... They will need A LOT of space when I'll pot them separately, so I already ran out of free space taking that in attention.
