jfabiao's 2017 photo dump

[oriky]

your plants looking great!, what the soil mix you use? it's look like pure scoria.

[Orion Drakkar]

Nice plants

[jfabiao]

your plants looking great!, what the soil mix you use? it's look like pure scoria.

Thank you, oriky and Drakkar.
Not pure scoria, but it makes up for at least two thirds of my mix. The rest is mostly a very degraded basalt I collect near my workplace, something I cannot put a name on; it's not rock any more and it's not clay yet, something in between. Then I add some other things, like worm casts, coir, limestone chippings, etc. It depends on the plant, what I have on hand at the moment, etc.

[oriky]

you can call this basalt : "magician" it's make you plant look's great!

do you water with tap water? or rain/distilled 'water?

i try to make my right mix, and i understand the scoria is great, and i think add 1\3 pumice (i live in hot climate and something need hold the water) and some quartz.

[jfabiao]

Rain water almost exclusively, I collect it from the roof of the greenhouse to a 1000 liter container. Pumice is more or less the same as scoria, only lighter. Plenty of empty spaces to hold some water (Portugal is very hot in the summer as well).

[oriky]

what i read is pumice better to hold water...
so which stone you use for hold water?
or you just water every week?

i will glad for some tips about the mix and watering, i move my small collection from pure organic soil to mineral soil...

[jfabiao]

It's the scoria that holds water, it's irregular and has "holes" as well.

And yes, during very hot weather (May to September) I water almost every week, especially the smaller pots.

[jfabiao]

Glandulicactus megarhizus KMR37A

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Mammillaria dodsoni P346

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Mammillaria stampferi

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[jfabiao]

Turbinicarpus sauerii subsp. septentrionalis PP1363

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Ancistrocactus tobuschi SB987

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Mammillaria weingartiana SB831

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[K.W.]

Dear Jose,
I do not know what I should admire more. . .
Your phototechnology or the wonderful plants and flowers!

Thank You!


Best wishes

K.W.

[jfabiao]

Thank you, K.W.

[majcka]

Dear Jose,
I do not know what I should admire more. . .
Your phototechnology or the wonderful plants and flowers!

Thank You!


Best wishes

K.W.

Both K.W., both!!!

[jfabiao]

You spoil me!

[majcka]

You spoil me!

Just keep on posting.

[K.W.]

You spoil me!

You deserve it!!!




K.W.