Thanks Aiko. I've given a very, very light watering but will now keep dry from now on. You can still splash every now and then when the soil is dry and the weather nice (enough). Maybe even well through December, if they are in a greenhouse and there is hardly any frost and still some sunshine on a...

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Some interesting bits and pieces there. I wasn't going to order any more seeds but had to at least try for some of those tylecodons.

Thanks Aiko. I've given a very, very light watering but will now keep dry from now on.

Hi all, I’ve recently procured this old pleiospilos bolusii from a seller on eBay. Not a genus I’ve ever grown before so I was hoping to get a bit of advice. I’m happy with growing conos and assume this will require similar watering but just wanted to check I’m not doing anything egregiously wrong. ...

Lovely, Ralph.

I’ve been so close to throwing away the othonna tuberosa I got from you over the last couple of months because I was convinced it was dead. It’s just come into leaf in the last week or so. Glad I forgot about it!

Only ordered from ADBLPS so far: Acharagma aguirreanum Acharagma huasteca [JS/12] Acharagma roseanum v. robustior [JM/08] Austrocactus coxii SAR_3201 > Malleo/Neuquén/Argentine [Pz_330616] Austrocactus aonikenkensis RH_2313b > Lago Viedma 400m/Lago Argentino/Santa Cruz/Argentine [RH/08] Austrocactus...

Thanks everyone for your replies - looks like ventricosus is the best guess. I have a stenocaulis in bud at the moment- much later than most other flowers. The only other one at the moment in bud is labelled sinus-alexandri (from you Ralph I believe?). Llifle tells me that’s synonymous with schaefer...

I’ll get my order sorted soon. Had a real mixed bag of results last year due to being a complete novice, but will have another go this year and if I can do any better.

I also have a plant labelled tylecodon ventricosus DT6144b East Garies that doesn’t look anything like this. Looking at google images of the species it does seem pretty variable though. IMG_9314.jpeg The other thought I had was t. hirtifolium, but my plant of that has much thicker, more succulent le...

Thanks for your reply Tom. I also grow t. striatus, and had always assumed the name comes from the slightly streaked pattern on the stems. I guess it's actually the thin leaves with a groove down the middle?