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- Thu Aug 11, 2022 12:14 am
- Forum: Grafting
- Topic: Grafting is Easy with the Twisty Tie Method
- Replies: 35
- Views: 16669
Re: Grafting is Easy with the Twisty Tie Method
Cant' get enough Copiapoas C. cinerea and haseltoniana 3 weeks IMG_0361.JPG I'm really happy that this one is still alive and growing A 2 year old Neowerdermannia vorwerkii seedling that I nursed along It was sidewise the day after grafting, so I had to re-graft a smaller section IMG_0357.JPG I cut ...
- Wed Aug 10, 2022 10:25 pm
- Forum: Grafting
- Topic: Grafting is Easy with the Twisty Tie Method
- Replies: 35
- Views: 16669
Re: Grafting is Easy with the Twisty Tie Method
Working on a lot of grafting this year Some of the stuff Copiapoa dealbata and cinerea IMG_0328.JPG IMG_0332.JPG Ariocarpus kotschoubeyanus IMG_0333.JPG After one week, this Copiapoa cinerea is plumping up nicely IMG_0343.JPG Super tiny Copiapoa dealbata IMG_0340.JPG Not using the best stock for Tep...
- Tue Aug 09, 2022 7:19 pm
- Forum: Member Blogs
- Topic: Welcome Craig Fry!
- Replies: 1344
- Views: 378946
Re: Welcome Craig Fry!
More flowers
Weingartia neumanniana Mammillaria mazatlanensis ssp. patonii Copiapoa laui Aztekium valdezii
Weingartia neumanniana Mammillaria mazatlanensis ssp. patonii Copiapoa laui Aztekium valdezii
- Tue Aug 09, 2022 6:19 pm
- Forum: Member Blogs
- Topic: Welcome Craig Fry!
- Replies: 1344
- Views: 378946
Re: Welcome Craig Fry!
I was taking some photos yesterday and I see the same (?) native bee popping out of this Astrophytum nudum flower
and got a photo before it flew off and then through a tiny hole in my green house
????
and got a photo before it flew off and then through a tiny hole in my green house
????
- Tue Aug 09, 2022 6:10 pm
- Forum: Succulent Identification
- Topic: Unknown succulents
- Replies: 3
- Views: 349
Re: Unknown succulents
Euphorbia bubalina, that's it for sure
Thanks
Now i can sell it's seeds
It's a fast grower
And I think the stapeliad is Huernia procumbens
Thanks
Now i can sell it's seeds
It's a fast grower
And I think the stapeliad is Huernia procumbens
- Sun Jul 17, 2022 5:00 pm
- Forum: Succulent Identification
- Topic: Anacampseros
- Replies: 7
- Views: 502
Re: Anacampseros
My book lists A. rufescens as having numerous hairs and purple under sides of the leaves
- Sun Jul 17, 2022 4:55 pm
- Forum: Cacti Identification
- Topic: A couple of unknowns
- Replies: 4
- Views: 336
A couple of unknowns
Pretty Notocactus IMG_0283.JPG IMG_0286.JPG A neat Columnar cactus cutting that a friend gave me I forgot the name he gave it The bud has abandoned development IMG_0268.JPG Selenicereus of some sort We call it the Octopus Garden Has these weird Cotton Ball Buds IMG_0290.JPG IMG_0257.JPG The day afte...
- Sun Jul 17, 2022 4:43 pm
- Forum: Succulent Identification
- Topic: Unknown succulents
- Replies: 3
- Views: 349
Unknown succulents
A couple of unknowns Unknown Euphorbia like a leafy E. clandestina IMG_0116.JPG Stem becoming a crested portion IMG_0118.JPG Self Fertile Big Seeds are ejected when ripe IMG_0246.JPG A unknown stapeliad that came as a volunteer several years ago, grows along the ground like a creeper never flowered ...
- Sun Jul 17, 2022 4:37 pm
- Forum: Succulent Identification
- Topic: Anacampseros
- Replies: 7
- Views: 502
Re: Anacampseros
I would call that Anacampseros rufescens
- Mon Jun 13, 2022 11:21 pm
- Forum: Cultivation
- Topic: What PPM range for Dyna-Gro All Pro?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 774
Re: What PPM range for Dyna-Gro All Pro?
I use "Grow More" 20-20-20
around $60 for 25 lbs
around $60 for 25 lbs
- Mon Jun 13, 2022 5:43 pm
- Forum: Cultivation
- Topic: What PPM range for Dyna-Gro All Pro?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 774
Re: What PPM range for Dyna-Gro All Pro?
Just wanted to point out one thing I didn't see mentioned (I could have missed it)
You need to take a baseline ppm of your regular water first, then subtract that value from your ppm with Fertilizer for the correct value
Please continue...
You need to take a baseline ppm of your regular water first, then subtract that value from your ppm with Fertilizer for the correct value
Please continue...
- Mon Jun 13, 2022 5:33 pm
- Forum: Member Blogs
- Topic: Welcome Craig Fry!
- Replies: 1344
- Views: 378946
Re: Welcome Craig Fry!
This was a weird occurrence... I was taking a photo of this Coryphantha difficilis Since it was the first time it flowered IMG_0195.JPG I took it out of the hot box and put it on a shelf outside the green house to photograph the flowers close-up, to document the feathery nature of the petals And thi...
- Mon Jun 13, 2022 5:22 pm
- Forum: Member Blogs
- Topic: Welcome Craig Fry!
- Replies: 1344
- Views: 378946
Re: Welcome Craig Fry!
Some new photos
Mountain Girl
My Echinopsis hybrid Lot's of Escobaria minima and Mammillaria theresae flowers Ariocarpus retusus x trigonus
with white seed pods Sulcorebutia rauschii
Green form
Mountain Girl
My Echinopsis hybrid Lot's of Escobaria minima and Mammillaria theresae flowers Ariocarpus retusus x trigonus
with white seed pods Sulcorebutia rauschii
Green form
- Mon Jun 13, 2022 5:14 pm
- Forum: Sick Cacti - Pests, Diseases, etc.
- Topic: Mealies and flat mites and scale -- oh, my! (Updated 6/11/2022)
- Replies: 118
- Views: 81183
Re: Mealies and flat mites and scale -- oh, my! (Updated 6/11/2022)
I recommend applying 3 to 4 weeks after the first dose. I see very little sign of mealies or mites, but there are still some thrips here and there. I did 2 applications so far, several months apart, and want to do a third application soon. But it takes several hours to do it right, which I don't enj...
- Sat Jun 11, 2022 4:04 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Expectations when purchase new cacti Question?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 769
Re: Expectations when purchase new cacti Question?
It looks like dried up rot to me
I would try to remove some of it, or not.
I sure wouldn't sell a plant that looks like that, and would send a replacement or refund if I did.
I would try to remove some of it, or not.
I sure wouldn't sell a plant that looks like that, and would send a replacement or refund if I did.