Pompom wrote: ↑Sun Aug 12, 2018 3:04 pm
The summer is about to end here now. The weather cooled down and bees, wasps and bumblebees are about to lose their minds. Wasp queens have left the colonies and went to find a nice place to hibernate. Now the wasps are bullying the people. Same goes for the bees which are pretty clueless what to do since all the flowers are dead. They try to find last food for winter from good smelling people.
So strange... August is one of our hottest months, and yet yours is already cooling off... but if your weather is starting to cool off don't forget to
start cutting back on the amount of water your cacti are getting.
(BTW i found your statements above about the bees to be quite funny)
Do you know what latitude you live on? If you do not, would I be too nosey to ask what city you live in so that I might look up what latitude you live on? I really do
not mean to pry.
Your Aloe
The one I have rather profoundly looks like the one you have, with one exception. You see how the leaves on your
Aloe , above where the little red bug is, are dish shaped like leaves normally are? And how they are much thicker below where the little red bug is? SO much thicker that they look almost round. All of the leaves on my aloe look like the leaves on yours above where the little red bug is. None of them look as thick as the leaves on the bottom of your
Aloe are.
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The
Aloe is on the top shelf in my living room. So as long as I'm at it, here are pictures (and please, forgive the the lack of quality) of the top and bottom shelves. These pictures are less pictures of the plants as they are illustrations of what my window setup looks like. The living room is strictly succulents. No cacti at all. I have a 2 Shelf stand sitting on top of a small table with a pair of 4 foot fluorescent lighting fixtures. One for both top and bottom shelves. The electrical requirements, money-wise, are insignificant.
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Top shelf
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Bottom shelf
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Somewhere here in this topic, you posted a picture of a cactus with a small white flower on it, making a comment about how long it lasted. The cactus in the picture below, (
Mammillaria crinita) has been doing what you can see in the picture all summer long. It started in the spring and has made as many as 5, and as few as 1, new flower
everyday!!
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You posted the picture of your
Mammillaria hahniana and made mention of how much growth it had made this year. I include a picture of mine below just to remind you how big yours may get.
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You did the same with your
Mammillaria karwinskiana... again I include a picture of mine below
only in order to remind you of what yours may do in the future. I hope I haven't upset you by hijacking your blog... My
one single intent was to show you pictures of mine, which are a little older,
in order to show you what yours may do in the future. I hope you find this useful or interesting to any extent at all. If you don't find the inclusion of these pictures useful to
some extent, let me know and I can edit this post and remove them.
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You seem to make a distinction between friends, and friends on the internet. My definition of friends is, "people that will be good to you and not
demand anything in return" . If people demand things from you in return for what they do, then they are only
using you for self-gratification. In that respect, I
do feel that the people that I have met here are indeed
true friends. They have been kind, respectful, and
very freely giving of their time and their knowledge, and do not
demand anything from me at all. I have exchanged plants with several people here in the United States. I would exchange plants with my friends overseas, except where the Damned government regulations (spell that "Customs" ) prevent me or make it extravagantly difficult and expensive to do so. So I do indeed consider the people that I have met here to be my friends. In that respect, I also include you on that list.
it's generally wasps that bother us here at altitude in september but a good trick is to smoke them away. Good thing we're always barbecue-ing! 
I love it how people can communicate not only with words but with pictures too. 
