Thanking el48tel for the honour of winning the March 2024 Marvellous Mesembs photo competition.
I do like tuberous roots. The bigger the better (and that is mainly the reason I don't like grafting much...).
Let's go on to pictures of roots bursting out of their pots. Roots pooking through the holes on the bottom, roots that make square pots round, or even better, roots that literally break their pots and burst through the sides.
So for April 2024 I would like to introduce the topic of bursting out of the pot.
April 2024 - Bursting out of the pot
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Re: April 2024 - Bursting out of the pot
Let's add some examples of what I had in mind:
An Ariocarpus ripping open a pot from almost the top to the bottom:
A Gymnocalycium trying to do the same but not even halfway there:
A Pachypodium succulentum that will be hard to repot later this year if I try to save the pot it is in for another plant:
An Ariocarpus ripping open a pot from almost the top to the bottom:
A Gymnocalycium trying to do the same but not even halfway there:
A Pachypodium succulentum that will be hard to repot later this year if I try to save the pot it is in for another plant:
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Re: April 2024 - Bursting out of the pot
I am afraid I'm nowhere near, but just spotted this H. truncata 'Super Blue' (it's also nowhere near being blue...) in what used to be a square 5x5 cm pot. I'll leave it as is and see what happens over the next 20 days
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Re: April 2024 - Bursting out of the pot
A recent purchase for me… a very strangely growing turbinicarpus klinkerianus trying to push its way out of a 2 3/4 inch BEF pot.
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!
Attempting to grow a range of turbinicarpus, coryphantha, escobaria and several other cactus genera. Tylecodons, pelargoniums and conophytums keep me occupied in the winter and an ever expanding number of gasteria live under the bench.
Attempting to grow a range of turbinicarpus, coryphantha, escobaria and several other cactus genera. Tylecodons, pelargoniums and conophytums keep me occupied in the winter and an ever expanding number of gasteria live under the bench.
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Re: April 2024 - Bursting out of the pot
A couple photographs from my recent visit to Paul's national collection of A., R. and W. (including S.!) near Aberdeen:
There were (just a few!) more, but I was staring at the plants for a couple of hours and almost forgot to take pictures...
Hopefully Paul will beat me with his own photographs
There were (just a few!) more, but I was staring at the plants for a couple of hours and almost forgot to take pictures...
Hopefully Paul will beat me with his own photographs
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Re: April 2024 - Bursting out of the pot
And that's a strong pot....
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