What is it? That's right. Delosperma sphalmantoides, a miniature species that grows more neatly than others of its kind and thus allows ...
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T. calcarea seedlings roots check (4 pics)
These Titanopsis calcarea seedlings are now almost 3 months old. Even though they are so young they already have several leaves and the leaf...
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Prepodesma's late flower
Well, this week I started my new job. :) I'm doing something completely different from what I did before and it's all still odd and...
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Aaaand two more flowers :D
Today's photo shooting is all natural. :) No staging with black background or anything. Even though the flowers open after the sun is go...
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And more Avonia flowers! (2 pics)
I'm going to flood my blog with them. XD But I don't have a choice, do I? Too pretty. Two more flowers opened (ca. 6 pm), another fi...
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Other regeneration problems
Generally speaking there are two problems with regeneration lithops can have. First is being too slow . Second is being too quick and doing ...
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One grateful mesemb, Stomatium (2 pics)
My Stomatium trifarium looks great nowadays, especially from below the leaves where the warts shine through. One day when I have more room I...
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Prepodesma about to bloom in July?
Well, this is strange. Shouldn't Prepodesma orpenii be done with flowering by mid-spring? Or could this already be the result of the va...
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First Avonia flower opened today
I've been live-blogging the event on twitter today and here it is! Opened approx. at 5 PM and should stay open for a couple of hours. Th...
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Aloinopsis schooneesii seedlings update
My A. schooneesii are now ca. 5 weeks old and they really do look like spheroid mesembs at this stage. It'll change with the next pairs ...
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My windowsill this year (2 pics)
Here are two of my mesemb trays, the neat ones. :D I really like it when pots with lithops alternate with other mesembs (and Avonias, of cou...
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More room for burchellii (3 pics)
I kept my two year old lesliei ssp. burchellii C308 in three 5x5cm pots, ca. 16 plants in each. As they started to touch and squeeze each...
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And another Frithia humilis post (3 pics)
It's nothing special, I've just been doing some transplanting und snapped some "root" pics. I think I removed 2/3 of their...
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Troubled L. julii & Avonia update (2 pics)
What would you do with them ? Without water since Oktober and still not done with the leaf change. I have no idea how to help them. I can se...
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Frithia pulchra flower
I only have this rather big plant since several weeks. It wasn't grown at my place but it's still nice to see the flowers. My own Fr...
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Aloinopsis malherbei seedling
This is the 3rd time I'm trying to grow Aloinopsis malherbei from seed. And only now I realize that I should have been more patient. Ap...
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2012 lithops seedlings report (addendum)
My blog is interactive so, as requested, here come the pics of the L. aucampiae C2A , the white-flowering C2. These seedlings had beautiful ...
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2012 lithops seedlings report (2 pics)
These guys hatched in October 2012 and most of them are changing into first true leaves these days. Yep, they're that slow. They share ...
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A. schooneesii seedlings
I don't use artificial light when I make mesembs hatch, that's why they do it depending on weather conditions. I don't mind as l...
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Recent developments (2 pics)
Things are happening on the windowsill. My Avoina quinaria ssp. quinaria is growing flowers. Such a surprise! I got it last year as this tin...
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Any takers? part 2
I just wanted a couple of plants but had to take the whole lot again. Is there anyone out there willing to give these plants a new home and ...
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New: Nananthus aloides
Got this one from ebay because it looked weird. I like weird. On the pic it seems to be bigger but the pot it 5x5cm which makes it even more...
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Steineckeana seedlings these days (2 pics)
The steineckeana are only a couple of months younger than the bromfieldii from the recent post. They look weird and looking weird is actuall...
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Neohenricia's open flowers
Yesterday I had to wait until 23:30 to see fully open Neohenricia flowers! Looks pretty and smells nice (in small quantities) but you can...
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