Kaktus said:. just need to make sure that you get fresh seeds.

For those not growing in tropical areas or near big nurseries that might be a tad hard. You can get old seeds to germinate, just not last reliably...

Ceropegia gigantea buds still growing even larger. Some are almost the size of my hand now.




My neighbor on the other side of that fence likes to complain about absolutely everything to do with my yard and garden. I'm sure she'll have complaints when those stink bombs open. Thankfully, it's in my locked fenced area. And... it ain't moving!

Macrocentra said:Ceropegia gigantea buds still growing even larger. Some are almost the size of my hand now.




My neighbor on the other side of that fence likes to complain about absolutely everything to do with my yard and garden. I'm sure she'll have complaints when those stink bombs open. Thankfully, it's in my locked fenced area. And... it ain't moving!

Very Funny!

skopjecollection said:
For those not growing in tropical areas or near big nurseries that might be a tad hard. You can get old seeds to germinate, just not last reliably...

I think a couple of months still ok, earlier I sowed around 100 or 1 yr old seeds, none of them germinate, and when I sowed another 100 of 1 week old seeds, I got almost 100% germination rate. The fresher the better.

And this is the latest update on the Dorstenia Crispa and D. Foetida, they look happy, have them for less than a month, one of them start to flower


The Monadenium also very healthy, remind me of a vegetable 'pakchoi'

That is a very pretty, dare I say pristine plant. Is that E. ritchiei?

Yes, I bought it as Euphorbia Monadenium Ritchiei , people here like to call it monadenium as there are too many Euphorbias in the market, or maybe this is not monadenium, they just use monadenium to increase the sales value, as monadeniums are quite rare and difficult to find here

Received my plants today. I'm especially happy with the Adenium.

Very nice!

Doing my routine check on the succulents, and can see some strange behavior happening...
Some of the succulents grow a lot of babies succulents, I assume it is normal..


This one because of the hairy spines, I am not aware that suddenly she has babies all over the place


A few cactus develop this wooly spines, some of them I have it for more than 2 years but this is the first time I saw this, is it possibly due to hot weather and they try to reduce the evaporation? I can see that their body become drier and thinner in size




And this is the most interesting part, they develop colorful spine, not flower, red and yellow wooly spine, I am happy to see that, but is it normal or should I start worrying?

My last two plants now inside for the winter.


My jade has not done too much this year . Maybe it has gotten a little bit wider



Cooler weather forecast for the next few days maybe dropping down to frost levels .I damaged my gb last year by leaving it too late . Now it has the scars to prove it
Steve

I need to bring in the haworthias, and draceana, .

Kaktus said:Yes, I bought it as Euphorbia Monadenium Ritchiei , people here like to call it monadenium as there are too many Euphorbias in the market, or maybe this is not monadenium, they just use monadenium to increase the sales value, as monadeniums are quite rare and difficult to find here

I prefer the word Monadenium myself, because it refers to the hooded cyathium, which is actually a pretty important clue about identity. I had one of those (never particularly leafy) until a couple of back to back winter rains took it out from below. Rest in peace my hooded one:



It's funny, along with y'all taking in plants for the winter, we are also going through seasonal changes. I see a lot more green in the garden, as if the sun is no longer testing the limits of tolerance. It's like the succulents held their collective breath for a couple of months there and now coming down out of it they're back in the groove. Does that make sense? The best months of the year (for me, in our winter-rainfall climate) are the ones that lie ahead. They are definitely the greener ones.

We just need some proper rain (as if there were many times we didn't ) and then I will no longer be battling bugs on the patio quite so much. I look forward to my first proper watering holiday since March. Good things ahead.

Baja_Costero said:
I prefer the word Monadenium myself, because it refers to the hooded cyathium, which is actually a pretty important clue about identity. I had one of those (never particularly leafy) until a couple of back to back winter rains took it out from below. Rest in peace my hooded one:

• Monadenium (Euphorbia ritchiei)
• Uploaded by Baja_Costero

You had a beautiful plant, I hope mine will grow a lot of branches like that one. This species also have a variegated version and easily available in here, next time I will buy one ...

In here there are some caudex plant also called monadeniums, but they are rare, only some collectors will have them, and the price are far exceed my budget, maybe next time I'll buy them when I travel abroad, namely
Monadenium magnificum
monadenium orobanchoides
monadenium mafingensis
monadenium echinulatum

All look like good choices to me. Some photos and useful info are available from a Danish site I like (all above plants pictured).

http://www.bihrmann.com/caudic...

Here's a Euphorbia hybrid that seemed unusually leafy at the moment (yeah, I know, not very, but it is what it is) ... it's the sole remaining survivor of its litter left here (the others went on to new homes) but has done well in that container over the past couple of years. If you look close at the left you will see that this is a girl.

I decided to treat myself at Home Depot today.

Behold the adorableness.

Madagascar Palm
It was the only pot with 2 separate plants and not branching.


E mammillaris variegated


E mammillaris


I think this one is E pseudoglobosa.


They've all been repotted into bigger pots because they tipped over and scattered soil all over my car backseat. I'm considering separating the Pachypodiums into their own pots.

And two of them are already blooming!

DaisyI said:And two of them are already blooming!

Yep. Don't you just love the plastic look?

I'm getting some tweezers and hopefully removing them tomorrow.

hlutzow said:I decided to treat myself at Home Depot today.

Behold the adorableness.

Madagascar Palm
It was the only pot with 2 separate plants and not branching.

• Madagascar Palm (Pachypodium lamerei)
• Uploaded by hlutzow

E mammillaris variegated

• Variegated Indian Corn Cob (Euphorbia mammillaris 'Variegata')
• Uploaded by hlutzow

E mammillaris

• Corn Cob Euphorbia (Euphorbia mammillaris)
• Uploaded by hlutzow

I think this one is E pseudoglobosa.


They've all been repotted into bigger pots because they tipped over and scattered soil all over my car backseat. I'm considering separating the Pachypodiums into their own pots.

last one is probably euphorbiA anoplia

Use your scissors to cut the beautiful flowers off down to the glue. The glue will eventually fall off as the plants grow but trying to pull it off will cause a lot of damage. I watch and everytime a piece comes loose, get out my little scissors and whack off another piece.

sedumzz said:

last one is probably euphorbiA anoplia

Or E monstrose.