"Fat Plants" : cacti,succulents, caudiciforms, whatever..

[Rogan]

Your plants are fantastic Kris, very well grown.

I also had problems growing Muiria hortenseae until recently when a British friend advised growing them with regular administrations of salt (!)and general fertilizer; seems as though these are hungry plants and grow in saline conditions in their natural habitat. Now I give my plants a crystal of sea salt and a pinch of dry fertilizer each on a quarterly basis - the results speak for themselves...   

[krisderaeymaeker]

Your plants are fantastic Kris, very well grown.
I also had problems growing Muiria hortenseae until recently when a British friend advised growing them with regular administrations of salt (!)and general fertilizer; seems as though these are hungry plants and grow in saline conditions in their natural habitat. Now I give my plants a crystal of sea salt and a pinch of dry fertilizer each on a quarterly basis - the results speak for themselves...  

Thanks for the compliments and for your information on growing Muiria Rogan ! Very usefull , I wil trie this with my plants and let you know about the results ...

[cohan]

ID needed for these two market bought specimens. Iīm not even sure if it is Echinopsis. The other one brings in mind some hybrid, even intergeneric? It has developed a seedpod though.

Hi, Panu, I'm lating looking at these! Nice purchases That could well be an Echinopsis, and almost certainly is, sensu latu, but sensu strictu? not sure, I'm not nearly and expert in these genera, but almost feels more like Lobivia..

The other feels a lot like Haworthia marginata, which is highly variable...  if you are on Facebook, there are some real Haw experts on some groups there...

[cohan]

Panu, no. 3 looks like an Haworthia hybrid I would guess, perhaps involving H. pumila as one of the parents?

this and your Muiria are fantastic, Rogan If you should ever find seed on any of these wild Haworthia-- especially this subgenus! .....

[cohan]

Kris-- all your plants are looking good-- love the little group of Turbis, and the A somalense- I really prefer the natural Adenium flowers to the hybrids, and I like the narrow leaves of this species also..

Rudi-- great work with the Staps I just don't have room indoors for any of the large species, though I used to grow hirsuta, only have a small Orbea now.. would like to get a couple of the spp with tiny oval segments, that stay small....

[Panu]

Thank you Cohan, H. marginata looks quite the same. On the other forum cactus was identified as Echinopsis ancistrophora. Havenīt tried to check which ssp. (or separate sp.)

[cohan]

Thank you Cohan, H. marginata looks quite the same. On the other forum cactus was identified as Echinopsis ancistrophora. Havenīt tried to check which ssp. (or separate sp.)

Good to know my 'feeling' wasn't so far wrong-- E ancistrophora was lumped into Echinopsis from Lobivia/Pseudolobivia.. I should have asked the size of the plant? L arachnacantha that I have known is a very small, tight growing and tight spined clumping plant, though I don't know if there are larger things included in the Echinopsis taxon...

[Maggi Young]

 Cactus friends...a Joint SRGC/NARGS forumist has posted photos of oa strange looking plant on the NARGS Forum:  http://nargs.org/smf/index.php?topic=868.msg13155#msg13155

Long thin stems.... very odd.... he's not the only one who would like to know what it is! 

[Hoy]

Cactus friends...a Joint SRGC/NARGS forumist has posted photos of oa strange looking plant on the NARGS Forum:  http://nargs.org/smf/index.php?topic=868.msg13155#msg13155

Long thin stems.... very odd.... he's not the only one who would like to know what it is! 

Nothing escapes you, Mrs Hawkeye

[Maggi Young]

Cactus friends...a Joint SRGC/NARGS forumist has posted photos of oa strange looking plant on the NARGS Forum:  http://nargs.org/smf/index.php?topic=868.msg13155#msg13155

Long thin stems.... very odd.... he's not the only one who would like to know what it is! 

Nothing escapes you, Mrs Hawkeye

I try,  I do try..... in fact many people find me VERY trying! 

[shelagh]

Nonsense Maggi you are always a delight

[Maggi Young]

Thanks Shelagh.... not everyone has your exquisite taste    
Some may find me prickly.... like a cactus 

[Hoy]

Cactus friends...a Joint SRGC/NARGS forumist has posted photos of oa strange looking plant on the NARGS Forum:  http://nargs.org/smf/index.php?topic=868.msg13155#msg13155

Long thin stems.... very odd.... he's not the only one who would like to know what it is! 

Nothing escapes you, Mrs Hawkeye

I try,  I do try..... in fact many people find me VERY trying! 

Maggi, you are not very trying but finishing things off with excelent results

..and prickly is better than glabrescent

[Maggi Young]

..and prickly is better than glabrescent Grin

 That's true! 

Still no opinions to the name of your skinny cactus, though.... I thought the  fans of the succulents  would have helped out by now........

[Hans J]

sorry but I cant no resist