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Random Frithia news (2 pics)

June 27, 2013, 7:48 am
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Frithia pulchra flowers are comming up! Unfortunately it's the Frithia I bought a month ago, which is much less exciting than if my own Frithias would flower. They don't. But any flowers are worth looking forward to. The times will come when mine are all in bloom, too.

This is probably not really newsworthy but I find it interesting. I'm currently growing offsprings of a deceased Frithia humilis that had pretty weird looking leaves → clickclick. I was hoping they'd show something similar with time, that's why it was really nice to discover a tiny tentacle on one of their leaves. Hope to see more of this.

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This year's Lithops portraits: dorotheae de Boer (3 pics)

June 28, 2013, 10:53 am
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These dorotheae took their time to regenerate. They haven't been watered for 8 months but still change their leaves extremely slowly. Well, the main thing is they do.

These are also "de Boer" but from a different source. Depending on the light conditions they can be really chocolaty dark. This year not so much.

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Quick seedlings update: Titanopsis calcarea

June 30, 2013, 12:46 pm
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These are my 2 months old Titanopsis calcarea seedlings. Aren't they cute? Check out those warts! I'm not sure I'm doing everything right with them (I've lost a couple, five remaining), but I'm watching them closely and hopefully learning. 

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Bromfieldii C382 seedlings these days (2 pics)

June 30, 2013, 1:26 pm
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I actually feel bad calling them seedlings. After all they are now 2,5 years old and adult-looking in size and shape. All they need is to finally flower. But none of my own seedlings has flowered yet so I don't dare hope.
You really get best plants if you grow them from seed. It might take long but the results are worth it. Strong and healthy, perfectly shaped and colored, they never went through the acclimatization pain. They just grow as they grow and are happy with what they've got. Something to be envious about.


You can look up their progress by clicking on the "seedlings 2010" tag below.
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Neohenricia's open flowers

July 1, 2013, 11:35 am
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Yesterday I had to wait until 23:30 to see fully open Neohenricia flowers! Looks pretty and smells nice (in small quantities) but you can't enjoy it much if you're sleepy. Photos help with that. :)

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Steineckeana seedlings these days (2 pics)

July 3, 2013, 12:24 am
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The steineckeana are only a couple of months younger than the bromfieldii from the recent post. They look weird and looking weird is actually what we like about this species. Tiny fissure, strange marble like pattern going from top all down the sides and sometimes some pseudotruncatella pattern as if breaking through the marble.


They've grown a lot since March, don't you think? :)
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New: Nananthus aloides

July 5, 2013, 2:31 am
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Got this one from ebay because it looked weird. I like weird. On the pic it seems to be bigger but the pot it 5x5cm which makes it even more attractive to me - the smaller the better. :)

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Any takers? part 2

July 5, 2013, 9:55 am
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I just wanted a couple of plants but had to take the whole lot again. Is there anyone out there willing to give these plants a new home and help me with the costs? :)
40 cents for larger, 20 cents for smaller plants, 3,45€ for shipment, Paypal, EU only. Please email me if you're interested! If you like you can point out which ones exactly you want. They are all well-grown, clean and healthy.

L. fulviceps (UPD: all gone! Thank you guys!)




L. localis (syn. terricolor) (UPD: all gone! THANKS!)

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Recent developments (2 pics)

July 7, 2013, 10:21 am
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Things are happening on the windowsill.
My Avoina quinaria ssp. quinaria is growing flowers. Such a surprise! I got it last year as this tiny wrinkled something (click!) and now it's going to bloom! Its white-flowering pal is resting this year though.

And, as another one of 2013 baby pictures, here's the amazingly fast growing Stomatium with a first side-branch. Reminder: It's around 2 months old. :) I think I'll try to water them less from now on, they can take it.

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A. schooneesii seedlings

July 8, 2013, 2:45 am
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I don't use artificial light when I make mesembs hatch, that's why they do it depending on weather conditions. I don't mind as long as they do germinate. The oldest on the pic are one month old and are getting first true leaves, the youngest hatched a couple of days ago. Reason for a photo session.

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2012 lithops seedlings report (2 pics)

July 9, 2013, 2:08 am
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These guys hatched in October 2012 and most of them are changing into first true leaves these days. Yep, they're that slow. They share one 5cm pot as a space saving measure. To the right you see bromfieldii v. glaudinae 'Rubroroseus' C393A - amazing germination and first year survival rate of 25 out of 27! I doubt they're Rubroroseus (those show much more magenta) but several seedlings have very attractive orange/red color and lovely markings so that's okay. The greenies are aucampiae ssp. euniceae 'Bellaketty' (4 plants out of 5 seeds). The one in the middle has its second real leaves while the other still have their first. Very promising!


*Zoom*

PS: I can't take a proper photo of the other October seedlings, aucampiae 'White Flower' C2A from own seeds. They look just like the pumice stones, perfectly camouflaged. Will have to wait until they're a little bigger.
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2012 lithops seedlings report (addendum)

July 10, 2013, 1:36 am
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My blog is interactive so, as requested, here come the pics of the L. aucampiae C2A, the white-flowering C2. These seedlings had beautiful parents (click, click) but they died on me back in 2010. I can only hope the kids will be stronger. Sown in October 2012 they are now busy changing leaves for the first time. While some of them show more color (adult plants have reddish/pinkish lines and windows) others are still patterned very vaguely and hide perfectly in the moist pumice stones (there are 14 plants).
They are spread so evenly because I had to transplant them after knocking over the pot... twice. XD


Now that I think about it, I'm not very good with aucampiae in general. Might be their size but they often don't make it through the regeneration safely. I'm trying to grow them from seed now. 
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Aloinopsis malherbei seedling

July 11, 2013, 4:14 am
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This is the 3rd time I'm trying to grow Aloinopsis malherbei from seed. And only now I realize that I should have been more patient. Apparently they germinate one month after sowing under my conditions (They probably germinate at the regular time under artificial lights, I don't know). Last time I've waited for a month and as nothing happened put one of the seeds (that I still could find) in the pot where I've just sown the new malherbei bunch. It hatched shortly after. And now, another month later, the seeds from the new bunch are starting to hatch. This way I have one seedling growing first true leaves and all the others just one day to one week old. The leaves look like Faucaria at this stage but it's normal. :)
Ah, I think I got it! I germinate different species in one pot and make a moist environment during they hatch. After a month I let the substrate dry a little because the other seedlings don't need it anymore - and that's when the A. malherbei hatch. They don't need as much moisture to germinate as others. Took me a while to get it. XD

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Frithia pulchra flower

July 12, 2013, 1:50 am
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I only have this rather big plant since several weeks. It wasn't grown at my place but it's still nice to see the flowers. My own Frithia pulchra unfortunately doesn't want to bloom.

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Troubled L. julii & Avonia update (2 pics)

July 12, 2013, 9:44 am
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What would you do with them? Without water since Oktober and still not done with the leaf change. I have no idea how to help them. I can see that the ones in the front grew two heads, the third one isn't even trying. The old leaves are still too meaty to try anything surgical, too. I guess I'll just wait...


At least Avonia's flowers develop nicely. Can't wait!

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And another Frithia humilis post (3 pics)

July 13, 2013, 12:24 am
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It's nothing special, I've just been doing some transplanting und snapped some "root" pics. I think I removed 2/3 of their root system along with the stones even though I tried not to. Now my 9 seedlings have a little more room to grow again. Well, not much more but still.

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More room for burchellii (3 pics)

July 14, 2013, 12:45 am
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I kept my twoyear old lesliei ssp. burchellii C308 in three 5x5cm pots, ca. 16 plants in each. As they started to touch and squeeze each other (No touching! -George Bluth) I've decided to make it 9 plants per one container. It also was an excuse to make some pre-celection and arrange them according to size and looks. The markings should get more distinctive with time but there are some promising specimen already. This is my take: larger windows in the first pot, "lines" in the second, others I like in the third. The rest went in the 4th pot for further contemplation.


I really like the one in the middle of this pic.

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My windowsill this year (2 pics)

July 14, 2013, 9:57 am
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Here are two of my mesemb trays, the neat ones. :D
I really like it when pots with lithops alternate with other mesembs (and Avonias, of course). It makes it into a mini garden with lots of things to discover.

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Aloinopsis schooneesii seedlings update

July 16, 2013, 1:24 pm
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My A. schooneesii are now ca. 5 weeks old and they really do look like spheroid mesembs at this stage. It'll change with the next pairs of leaves. Even though it's awfully hot on the windowsill these days they don't even seem to notice. I try to keep the soil moist so that they can enjoy full sun.

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First Avonia flower opened today

July 17, 2013, 9:47 am
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I've been live-blogging the event on twitter today and here it is! Opened approx. at 5 PM and should stay open for a couple of hours. The sun is already gone from the windowsill but I tried to do my best with the photo. 
Good thing you can usually tell in the morning if the flower bud will pop in the evening. This way you can make arrangements like cancel all your appointments. ;) Still, it's only one flower for now with seven more to come. Amazing for such a tiny plant to find so much strength for it.

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