It's been a while. In fact, around 8 years since I logged in here last time. At that time, I even planned (and did) a cacti-oriented trip in California and visited some fellow forum users. And then life changed a bit, jobs/kids/moves. It was also very hard on my plants, lots of them died due to lack of care, non-optimal conditions, not enough sunny windowsills in the winter, etc.
But I never really lost my interest. Some of my plants survived and I learned to find genuses that would better fit what I could give them.
Back to 8 years ago, I met Tony, a user of this forum that was such a nice guy with me. I visited his prolific backyard and he was kind enough to give me some spare cuttings that I tried to grow back here. Tony doesn't seem to have post here since 2018 so I don't know if he is still around. Not much of what he kindly gave me survived. But one "particular" plant made through those 8 years and rewarded me quite well a few days ago. From a thumb size cutting, I present you the "bigger than hand" Stapelia gigantea flower.
Maybe it's a usual seeing for a lot of you, but for me it's reminiscent of a wonderful trip, a very kind person and a still burning passion of cacti and succulents.
@Tony,
if you are still around, thank you.
Also, I'm looking forward to be able to un-pause my visits here and come back more often to see what you guys are talking about.
Cheers.
Certainly not plants for Windowsill growers as you would not want most species in the house when they flower.
Never seen one in garden stores/nurseries around here. I even think "the one" cacti/succulents producer of the province doesn't have any (it's been a few years since my last visit though). It surely raise more questions than my Haworthias.
