Thanks Steve! I live here in Southern California as well, and have probably seen millions and millions of shore flies over my life time. I think with all of the torrential rain we've had the last couple of months, along with some standing water that has seemed to develop a thick coat of algae, the s...

These little Shore Flies are around the same size as those nasty Sciarid Flies, but I don't think they do any harm. Anyone experienced them hanging around your succulents?

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I finally found a source for frithia seeds, so I ordered them from Germany. I also ordered a bunch of other seeds and sowed them all at the same time. They all germinated, but the frithia seedlings are growing really really slowly. After a month they are only about the size of a sesame seed, where t...

Great thread! Question for Keith: Where do you get your desert soil? I live in Southern California and actually never thought about just driving east on the 10 for a little ways and filling up some buckets! Now for a general question: How large do Mesembs have to be to safely transplant them from th...

Great thread! Question for Keith: Where do you get your desert soil? I live in Southern California and actually never thought about just driving east on the 10 for a little ways and filling up some buckets! Now for a general question: How large do Mesembs have to be to safely transplant them from th...