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« Reply #630 on Jan 22, 2012, 9:49pm »		[Quote]
Wow Bixa, I love the complexity of the fleshy buds....they are so attractive.

I spent a happy afternoon unpacking a parcel from Mickthecactus full of lovely cuttings....haworthas, gasterias and similar. I've potted them all up and they're being nursed in a heated propagator while the weather's cold....I'm a very lucky girl :D
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« Reply #631 on Jan 23, 2012, 1:55am »		[Quote]
Ah Cheery, how absolutely kind of Mick to send you that box, I think that is such a friendly think to do! :) Have fun watching them mature!
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« Reply #632 on Jan 23, 2012, 10:11am »		[Quote]
Those are proper cacti Bixa.
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« Reply #633 on Jan 23, 2012, 5:36pm »		[Quote]
Aren't they nifty & waxy, Cheery?

Mick is indeed a prince among men, but his darlings certainly went to a good home.

Ain't they big ole thangs, Mick?!
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« Reply #634 on Jan 24, 2012, 9:40am »		[Quote]

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Aren't they nifty & waxy, Cheery?

Mick is indeed a prince among men, but his darlings certainly went to a good home.

Ain't they big ole thangs, Mick?!


They are indeed enormous Bixa.
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« Reply #635 on Jan 24, 2012, 11:22am »		[Quote]
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« Reply #636 on Jan 24, 2012, 1:26pm »		[Quote]
A beauty Rikita!
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« Reply #637 on Jan 24, 2012, 3:43pm »		[Quote]
Super-duper!
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« Reply #638 on Jan 24, 2012, 9:18pm »		[Quote]
thanks... it is one of the cacti that my brother is "storing" at my mom's... she keeps complaining that they take up a lot of space and he should pick them up, but of course they look much nicer in the sunlight of her garden than in his dark appartment...
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« Reply #639 on Feb 2, 2012, 7:54pm »		[Quote]
Apologies for adding nothing for a while. It really is the deadest of dead times. 6 weeks and they'll start waking up.

did I ever post pictures of the 2010 Show?
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« Reply #640 on Feb 3, 2012, 5:45pm »		[Quote]
I took pics of some really magnificent flowering agave yesterday. Lemme process them & I'll put them up.

Even when you don't post pictures, Mick, we know you're always willing to help with comments, IDs, and pointers. :-*
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« Reply #641 on Feb 4, 2012, 10:07am »		[Quote]
Just checked. I have posted the show pics already.....

Bixa, do you still have that beautiful S. beneckei on the first page?
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« Reply #642 on Feb 4, 2012, 7:42pm »		[Quote]
Yep. I recently re-potted it so it could have some fresh & better dirt. It has very little root system, so it went back in the same pot, although I removed all the other stuff that had been stuck in there when I moved. It's 45" tall now and has been in too much shade, so needs to be gradually introduced to more sunlight.
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« Reply #643 on Feb 9, 2012, 6:52pm »		[Quote]
These were taken a week ago in front of Sto. Domingo. The pair in the first three pictures is the pair shown in the eye-fooling "Shadows & Silhouettes" picture.

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« Reply #644 on Feb 10, 2012, 2:48pm »		[Quote]
They are truly magnificent.
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« Reply #645 on Feb 10, 2012, 2:59pm »		[Quote]
I can't wait for my agaves to send up a 'rocket' like that!

In the background all covered in pods is a Flamboyant tree???
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« Reply #646 on Feb 10, 2012, 4:59pm »		[Quote]
True, Mick -- they're the flowering plant for which the word "stately" must have been invented.

Do you think yours are ready to bloom, Tod?

Yes, indeed those are flamboyant trees. I need to dig out some other pictures I took of them. As you see, the ones in the photo are fine, but there are two out of the picture that appear to be dead or dying.
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« Reply #647 on Feb 10, 2012, 5:09pm »		[Quote]
Hard to believe but I've flowered the same Agave twice.......
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Re: Cacti and Succulents
« Reply #648 on Feb 14, 2012, 1:00pm »		[Quote]
Here's a recent couple of not that spectacular pictures-

Alo jucunda-

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Aloe peckii - my picture doesn't really convey the lovely leaf colouring.

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« Reply #649 on Feb 14, 2012, 2:41pm »		[Quote]
Mick, when you said you've flowered the same agave twice, what did you mean? Was it an agave that flowered & did not die back?

Re: your latest pics -- they are so spectacular! I don't know either of those aloes. They're both lovely.

I recently moved every one of my aloes so they'd get less sun during the day. It was partly to make sure they didn't burn at this time of year, but also because I don't like those dull reds or bruise purples they turn in the winter sun.
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Mick, when you said you've flowered the same agave twice, what did you mean? Was it an agave that flowered & did not die back?

Re: your latest pics -- they are so spectacular! I don't know either of those aloes. They're both lovely.

I recently moved every one of my aloes so they'd get less sun during the day. It was partly to make sure they didn't burn at this time of year, but also because I don't like those dull reds or bruise purples they turn in the winter sun.


Those colours are normal Bixa - they'd do it in habitat too. I have A. dorotheae (named after some Dorothy or other) which goes mahogany brown in winter when it gets water stressed. I'll look out a picture.

I was being sneaky about the Agave - it's a miniature A. parviflora v flexiflora which I got early on in my collecting career. It flowered, threw off an offset which I grew and then that flowered and I'm growing another offset now. It's the only Agave that has ever flowered for me.

Both of those Aloes are cuttings from Kew.
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« Reply #651 on Feb 14, 2012, 3:43pm »		[Quote]
Bixa, to be honest I don't think so. No signs yet but it's hard to judge as they are in an elevated position in my succulants garden. Actually, you have reminded me to go and poke around in there to see what has become of my Quiver Trees that I planted out some months ago!!
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« Reply #652 on Feb 14, 2012, 7:47pm »		[Quote]
I know those colors are normal, Mick, but I figure since their lives are abnormal anyway -- growing in pots on my patio far from their native home -- they can just do one more little thing for me.

That's pretty exciting that you got that agave to flower for you like that. Even in habitat it can takes years for some of them to flower.

Tod, how old are your agaves?

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named after some Dorothy or other
Totally off the subject -- found this yesterday &
am sharing it with everyone who might enjoy it:

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« Reply #653 on Feb 15, 2012, 9:01am »		[Quote]
That is very funny Bixa ;D

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« Reply #654 on Feb 16, 2012, 12:52pm »		[Quote]
Actually this is Aloe cameronii which always colours up-

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Here's Dorothy-

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« Reply #655 on Feb 20, 2012, 5:58pm »		[Quote]

Feb 14, 2012, 3:02pm, mickthecactus wrote:
Both of those Aloes are cuttings from Kew.

Were those "authorized" cuttings or purchased cuttings, mick, or did you poach a few specimens?
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« Reply #656 on Feb 27, 2012, 5:27pm »		[Quote]
Absolutely above board kimby.

They let me take cuttings - no cost.
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« Reply #657 on Mar 15, 2012, 1:02pm »		[Quote]
I didn't stage this picture. Pelargonium incrassatum against Aeonium arboreum "Schwarzkopf""

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« Reply #658 on Mar 16, 2012, 3:48pm »		[Quote]
Ain't nature grand?! That is a wonderful picture, Mick.
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Haworthia tesellata-

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Haworthis cymbiformis v. incurvula

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Echeveri lauii-

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Crassula x Morgans Beauty (lovely scent)

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Cheiridopsis peculiaris -

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Haworthia limifolia v. limifolia

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