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

[krisderaeymaeker]

Juttadinteria insolita (sown 1992)  (pics 1 & 2 )

Gibaeum nebrownii  (3)

Conophytum pellucidum (4)

Conophytum sp. (lost the label ...) (5)

[krisderaeymaeker]

Lithops .........(sown in 1992 )

[Darren]

Kris, your lost label Conophytum looks very like C. frutescens with those rather orange flowers. What puzzles me is that frutescens is usually one of the earliest to flower (in July with me).

[krisderaeymaeker]

Kris, your lost label Conophytum looks very like C. frutescens with those rather orange flowers. What puzzles me is that frutescens is usually one of the earliest to flower (in July with me).

Thanks Darren , you could be right . I think he is much earlier in most years and that maybe could solve the last issue ... Maybe I could find pictures from other years and so I am able to check flowering dates ...
Lost labels , a problem we al have to deal with ........

[johnw]

This was a bit of a surprise 10 days ago.  The plant is ancient and got repotted in 2012, the first time in at least 10 years.  I was rather shocked at the size of the flower.

Leuchtenbergia principis.

johnw

[johnw]

Does anyone know the name of this Echeveria and if it can be propagated by leaf cuttings.  It's almost 30cm across and something tells me these big ones do not propagate that way, only by beheading.

johnw

[Armin]

This was a bit of a surprise 10 days ago.  The plant is ancient and got repotted in 2012, the first time in at least 10 years.  I was rather shocked at the size of the flower.
Leuchtenbergia principis.
johnw

Congratulation John, very 
The good old thing rewarded you for the repotting!

[johnw]

Congratulation John, very  8)The good old thing rewarded you for the repotting!

But Armin as you can see it is already bending the pot.  It doesn't want another 9 years in my care I guess.   

johnw

[Armin]

True - sawy it as a silent cry for more space and fresh nutrients 

[krisderaeymaeker]

Some more Lithops .......

[krisderaeymaeker]

And last ones  ....

[johnw]

Kris  - Does your greenhouse stretch all the way to Wommelgem?

Fabulously grown Mesembs. Where do you find the sunlight?

johnw

[krisderaeymaeker]

Kris  - Does your greenhouse stretch all the way to Wommelgem?
Fabulously grown Mesembs. Where do you find the sunlight?
johnw

    You know Wommelgem John ? That sounds interesting ..........
Thanks for the compliment , actually they are by far the less demanding plants of my collection and garden ...
When I visit some mediterrenean countrys , I bring some Sunshine home with me ....No we had a really good summer this year .

[johnw]

  You know Wommelgem John ? That sounds interesting ..........

Not really Kris but going from Schoten to Leuven in the 80's I had an uncanny knack for winding up in Wommelgem and going round & round in circles to get back on track when in fact I should have been passing your place.  Friends would say repeat after me 'wommelgemomgelegdeverkeersweg' or something to that effect which we all thought was terribly funny, no wonder I got lost. 

johnw

[krisderaeymaeker]

Humm interesting to know John .....you've been in Belgium for a while in the 80 's .....

I add some pictures of flowering Ariocarpus kotschoubeyanus . Al grow from seed many years ago . (must be around 1995 or something like that) 
They just started to flower 1 or 2 years ago .They stil fit wel in a pot with a wide of 5.5 cm ....
So very very very slow growing .