Cacti and Succulents

It's a cultivar of Cotyledon orbiculata

Thanks @Spruce , that’s a good tip

Thanks for replies. I regularly treat the mealy bugs with meths but I didn't realize they caused the mold.

You could turn the pot upside down with a hand over the bottom and give it a good shake to loosen the soil and extract the plants carefully. Then gently scrape off as much soil as you can without damaging the roots then place in a bucket of water gently shaking the plants about to remove the...

Today I received my rooting of Sansiviera Moonglow from Madeira. I was surprised to receive a free baby .. it looks like two but it is joined, Is it Moonglow too or another type?

In my experience, opuntia thorns tend to go......through your skin

Well what do you know, I can stick a label on mine now(about 10 years old!)

I have grown lithops from seed years ago, I still have a fair few plants.They are easy, but slow and can take about two years to get bigger than a pin head mostly.I used sharp sand mixed with peat based multipurpose. scatter seed thinly on the surface and water from the bottom.A lot will...

It's a cactus as said above. The brown bits are dead. It looks as if it needs repotting. Cut the dead bits off. Use a gritty mixture and put it in a pot with drainage holes. Use a smaller pot, one just big enough for the green bit only. Put it in a sunny spot and water only when the compost is...

@Selleri "really, you can walk past Poundland shelf of "cute cacti in cute plastic pots with wiggly eyes", noticing something interesting and not buying it!?"I accelerate my pace when I see 'wiggly eyes' etc. Only once have I bought a cactus not named. I have 'The Encyclopedia of Cacti' ...

We have named them The Twins ... Danny and Arnie ... The other R baccifera is Cousin Itt ...

Lucky you Michael beautiful flowers!

Sorry no pics of the new cuttings yet. I managed to root 3 separate cuttings from the original - 1 flowered as said. Already between 6 - 9 inches tall but need re potting really to ensure they stay healthy - other garden stuff took over I'm afraid. When I lived in Spain years ago, I could...

From the areoles it seems to be Echinopsis oxygona ...

I think an update on the Setiechinopsis seedlings (cf #25) Out of the 7 seedlings, only 3 survived. The commercial bag I got was was just a crock of s**t, and held water like a sponge. The 3 survivors are now 18 months old and the biggest is 40mm and the smallest 20mm. Blooms next year?? ...

Thanks @Victoria, however the stems of this are cylindrical and spiny, but with D. ackermanii the stems start off cylindrical but then become flat with wavy edges.

I wonder if the slugs were already in the compost when you had it @Victoria ? or maybe their eggs . If they were then anything you do to stop them won't work. Maybe it would be a good idea to change the compost.

Don't listen to her Pete, they're fantastic!Most owners of 'horrible,vicious spiny things' know their blood type and have the battle scars to prove their devotion

Thank you, it's very small. I haven't seen it flowering before so it was a nice surprise.

The strange thing about it was it always just looked like a dead spiney stick, but within a day of watering it would suddenly start growing leaves.