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Random Frithia news (2 pics)
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...
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This year's Lithops portraits: dorotheae de Boer (3 pics)
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...
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Quick seedlings update: Titanopsis calcarea
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...
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Bromfieldii C382 seedlings these days (2 pics)
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...
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Neohenricia's open flowers
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)
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...
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New: Nananthus aloides
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
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...
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Recent developments (2 pics)
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...
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A. schooneesii seedlings
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...
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2012 lithops seedlings report (2 pics)
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...
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2012 lithops seedlings report (addendum)
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...
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Aloinopsis malherbei seedling
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...
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Frithia pulchra flower
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)
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...
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And another Frithia humilis post (3 pics)
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...
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More room for burchellii (3 pics)
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...
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My windowsill this year (2 pics)
Here are two of my mesemb trays, the neat ones. :DI 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...
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Aloinopsis schooneesii seedlings update
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...
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First Avonia flower opened today
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...
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