Don't know how many of you have instagram? well if you do you may have noticed that cacti businesses in places like Thailand seem may i say "viable"? It just seems mad that there are so many businesses selling what are 10p plants, soil, pots, stall after stall day after day. Without the ri...

Makes you wonder how the Thai growers never get these issues, i suspect it's the systemics used are furan based and hence banned.

If the raised bumps have a darker dot in the middle it's scale, you may just have several generations expanding their empire.

Systemic is required so they get poisoned.

usually about a week to be safe but seedlings may wither, longer if you spoted rot and dealt with it, or trimmed the roots.

I think you have to use a lot of the bottle to get contact, the fungus clear ultra gun is good fr that spot of rust etc but as for mealys i stick to the solution so at least you know the strength 60ml in a litre i recall.

So death or wish or death is better than giving it back to nature?, we are not talking about Japanese Knotweed here folks, we are talking about that same cactus abandoned in the front yard just because one does not like the look of it, well it wants to live and passing to someone else for free in th...

How bad would we all feel if science proved plants can feel rejected? :lol: :sad: thinking about this lately and perhaps rather than "scrap" or "hope it would die" how about " i failed to grow you properly and will release you to the ground in a suitable place" Like whe...

for top dressing i use molar clay that has been crushed and seived to 1mm, however lately i have been trying play sand applied to moist mix through a tea strainer, the sand soaks up the excess water and looks level, you can see the seeds and which ones germinate etc.

Be sure to share those findings el48tel

I thought about this the other day as it goes, pale skin turns red on humans due to excessive light for different reasons but has a common ground. So why is human skin dark in bright countries and in northern countries white/pale? a plant that has adapted to shade can have very dark leaves to captur...