I was excited to see this flower since some time now knowing it should be intense yellow with large white center, but it grew really slowly....
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aucampiae pals
You might remember these two: last year I was writing about how different they looked when I first bought them and how they've become f...
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dorotheae flower 2
While several plants have already finished flowering (and I'm waiting to see the results of pollination, or at least some hints of succe...
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life goes on
Well, look at that! After the difficult times it was through this little guy is regenerating. Hopefully its fellows in misery will do the s...
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three stages of a flower
The recent 'Green Horn' flowers have turned out to be so fluffy! :)
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kousougyoku
These are two specimen of an utterly beautiful fulleri cultivar called ' Kousougyoku ' (jp. 紅窓玉) from Y. Shimada. Seing it on pictu...
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curly petals
The white aucampiae flowers are all done by now. The flowers didn't last long, actually they've withered the day after I tried polli...
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saving space
The number of my lithops plants increases all the time so it was only natural that they needed to move into containers more space-saving i.e...
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first seedlings update
These seedlings are from April 2008 - my first try to grow lithops from seed. They haven't changed much compared to last year , but of c...
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sun needed
The salicolas are all done since yesteday and I'm still not certain whether the pollination was successful or not so... this post is for...
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gaping cleft
More flower buds are coming but if I keep posting about that I'll never get to write about my other beloved plants. :) This is not an an...
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troubled julii
I decided to get rid of the damaged head of the julii plant from before . Having cut it off with a cutter I waited for a day and then potted...
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more flower buds
The pictures are of aucampiae 'White Flower' but I'll be writing about the salicolas . You know I've been trying to pollina...
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one year difference
This plant belongs to this bunch . I like it how it has developed - it has grown a lot but is still quite compact. I've run out of pumic...
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salicola flower
The salicolas have opened all 5 flowers. I'm trying pollination this year for the first time. Wish me luck. :) Aucampiae 'White Flo...
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dorotheae flower
I wanted to go on with the inspection and comparison, but it was sunny these two days, and you all know that's when miracles happen. ;)
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quick update on the flowers
It's dark and rainy. They promise some sun during the weekend but it's hard to believe. Nevertheless the flower buds are slowly deve...
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lesliei pot
Do you remember these guys ? I got them as tiny one-year-old seedlings back in summer 2008. One year ago they still were quite small - there...
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salicola follows
Yesterday was another sunny day and right in the morning I discovered a new flower coming through. Of course I checked other lithops immedia...
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first flower bud this year
I've noticed it yesterday - barely visible between the lobes. Today the sun was shining all day long and it grew really fast. If the wea...
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strange cases
While the most of the plants seem to be doing well (many look like pancakes - that's how I like them!), these four had growth troubles t...
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tiny nibblers
I've been transplanting some of the lithops to get rid of bugs on tuesday. Not only there were mealy bugs but also a lot of tiny grey st...
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what are you? 2
Remember this post ? I was writing about a small (but ca. 3 year old) lithops plant I couldn't identify because it kept changing its pat...
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