I have both black and white shade cloth in my green houses I think I can offer an explanation The Black shade cloth has larger holes in it, that allow some direct light through that may cook your plants The white cloth has smaller holes, and it sometimes feels that a 50% white shade seems more shade...

a loop of tape on the seed stem of these Sarcocaulon keeps them from flying off and drilling themselves into hiding
If you just touch them when they are ripe they go flying

I use Fox Farm "Happy Frog", which is similar to the "Ocean Harvest", which I used for a while but switched to the frog because it has less floaty stuff I use about 20-40% soil with about 60-70% pumice and 10% course sand (if I have any) I dries out fast when mixed with pumice, s...

Attracting flies using a Stapeliad as bait
I also used a paint brush to cross them, so if I do get seeds, I won't be able to know if I did it or the flies
I haven't seen a fly on the plants of interest yet

I go through 60-100 gallons each watering during most of the year So cans and sprayers are out I don't like watering cans because the spout pours the water out in a strong stream that disturbs the soil too much Of course I use a spray bottle for seedlings, until they are big enough for the water to ...

Denise found these plastic mesh sheets at Michael's, or other craft shops in the needle craft section
We cut pieces out to cover the big holes in the bottom of hand made pots

A couple more

Boswellia nana flower Frithia pulchra seedlings
New photo: Oct. 2023

I have been growing Psuedolithos hybrids for years It was pseudolithos migiurtinus x pseudolithos dodsoniana that flies had crossed I called it the "Turd of Hearts" Here are some photos from Sept. 2010 1486_IMG_7223_1.jpg 1486_IMG_7225_1 (1).jpg When visiting my nearby Asian Succulent Impo...

Mine are quite compact I bought one from Woody in 1998 that was imported "so to speak" I had a huge root/stem stock, it hasn't grown much bigger since then, but grows short stem sections every year They grow nice tuberous roots from cuttings after a couple years, which we sell But I will h...

Ceraria pygmaea
They have super tiny flowers I thought they were two sexes
I was wrong, all 3 clones have seeds on them now These seedling grew up as volunteers

Madagascar Euphorbias! Our good friend Gary James is a specialist in them and has been there several times to see the plants in habitat It turns out that Denise has quite a collection of rare plants she got from him over the years I really didn't take notice of them until lately Euphorbia razafindra...

Frithia, one of my favorite mesembs
I have a batch of seedlings I hope will stay alive

People kept asking me if I had Gymnocalycium spegazzinii var. unguispinum Never heard about it at first Then when I finally saw them for sale, I bought 3 hoping for seeds soon IMG_1173.JPG Love how the new spines form IMG_1177.JPG The grafting stock is different, looks like some kind of Echinopsis T...

Very nice, never seen seedlings before

2 other things Hose nozzles, some are not very good Dosamatic https://www.qcsupply.com/120443-dosmatic-superdos-20-25.html?utm_medium=cpc&utm_source=google&utm_campaign=Google|Shopping|NB|All_Products|ALL|ALL|ALL|FM&utm_content=490972808542&utm_term=&gclid=Cj0KCQjwuNemBhCBARIsADp...