new seed capsules

All of the four karasmontana seed capsules have dried up by now and react to water. Still, I'm going to leave the seeds inside for some ...

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beauty in being different

Speaking of weird shapes. You might remember this lesliei from this post . It looked ridiculous back then, with the heads looking in differe...

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in the evening sun

I was most excited to see this one seedling regenerate. As mentioned before I've had a "greenie" germinated among the regular...

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fresh sulphurea

I've tried to capture the smoothly green beauty of the bromfieldii Sulphurea many times but it just eludes my camera. Too much sunlight ...

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and now some lesliei

... in all forms and colors. This one looks so cozy.  These guys should have white flowers one day.

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gracili seedlings

I've sown these beautiful gracilidelineata sometime 2009. There were seeds with four cole numbers C189, C261, C309 and C373 all in one p...

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regeneration continues

Proceeding on the regeneration report 2012, a lot is going on these cold sunny days. One of the flashy karasmontanas 'Top Red' gives...

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burchellii's first clothes

You know I'm a lesliei fan, right? I think one of the oh so many reasons is how very young seedlings have the color and pattern of the a...

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julii seedlings

I've mentioned the julii seedlings (cv. 'kōsōgyoku', sown on the 29th of July, 2011) in the previous entry but they're so sm...

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some julii

I'm pretty bad at growing julii, or maybe just at growing white-flowered lithops since I really can't figure out those salicola guys...

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dorotheae's new clothes

Only a couple of sunny weeks and the lithops are showing their new leaves more and more every day. The dorotheae are working through the old...

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lithops can get confused sometimes

I always thought if an adult lithops decides to change it's skin two times in one season it was getting way too much food and is now act...

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