Results of last years seed sowing

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Results of last years seed sowing

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Results from last years sowing of society seed.
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Excellent. MIke! (tu)
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It's posts like this that make me wonder why I haven't tried growing anything from seed yet!
Growing in Nottingham for the past 4 years and recently found my way to a Nottingham branch meeting. A few plants on a windowsill has very quickly turned into a greenhouse full!

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They seem to have grown a lot faster than when I have grown Haworthia and Gasteria seed - even though I am quite generous with water and fertiliser...
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They have been under grow lights and have not had a ‘rest’ yet.
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Do you use lights with Haworthia? And heat?
Endeavouring to grow Aylostera, Echinocereus, Echinopsis, Gymnocalycium, Matucana, Rebutia, and Sulcorebutia. Fallen out of love with Lithops and aggravated by Aeoniums.
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ralphrmartin wrote: Tue Aug 02, 2022 5:40 pm They seem to have grown a lot faster than when I have grown Haworthia and Gasteria seed - even though I am quite generous with water and fertiliser...
Same here, unless these are 3 cm square pots :mrgreen:

Or maybe I should just sow more vigorous taxa?
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The grow light set up is one of those ‘indoor garden’ types and I find the heat generated by the fluorescent tubes and their gear is sufficient to keep it warm through the winter months - its located in a spare bedroom. I keep a 14/15 hour day length going continuously and feed and water as required to keep things growing. To be fair succulents do better than cacti under this regime although I do currently have a few coming along. Haworthias seem to do very well as do Cono’s. but some other Mesembs don’t produce tight enough growth.
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Mike P wrote: Wed Aug 03, 2022 1:25 pm The grow light set up is one of those ‘indoor garden’ types and I find the heat generated by the fluorescent tubes and their gear is sufficient to keep it warm through the winter months - its located in a spare bedroom. I keep a 14/15 hour day length going continuously and feed and water as required to keep things growing. To be fair succulents do better than cacti under this regime although I do currently have a few coming along. Haworthias seem to do very well as do Cono’s. but some other Mesembs don’t produce tight enough growth.
If it's not too much trouble, would you mind taking a photo of your setup? I'm intrigued.
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