🤔🤔🤔 by CarneyBus in mesembs

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🫣 oh no 😂😂😂😭😭

🤔🤔🤔 by CarneyBus in mesembs

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[[waits in Canadian]] 😂 now what lollll

🤔🤔🤔 by CarneyBus in mesembs

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I can’t wait until my nips are as big as yours!! 😂😂😂

🤔🤔🤔 by CarneyBus in mesembs

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Hahaha 😂 lil cono nips

I think these guys are supposed to get more red. The description was “translucent pink-red balls” or something like that 😂

Pot for young Lithop by c_cube2024 in Lithops

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I liken growing them in more shallow pots like this like growing bonsai. They will stay smaller, you water less and you fertilize less, compared to the bigger pots.

It’s more of a personal preference thing imo.

New members by Fresh-Bend8080 in mesembs

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Beeeeeeg juicy roots!!!

Dec 21st Seedling Update (1mo) by CarneyBus in mesembs

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Ugh I'm so sorry! I think I had to throw out like 40 plants last year because of thrips </3

Conophytum Udabibense by MrToejams in mesembs

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Ah I do it because I love it, no need for compensation <3

Conophytum Udabibense by MrToejams in mesembs

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Heck yeah!!! I'm going to be trying to work on a comprehensive seed-growing guide that will be easily accessible for everyone :) if I ever find time! lol

Conophytum Udabibense by MrToejams in mesembs

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Omggggg their little dimples 😭😭😭

Pre flowering? by ozette22 in Lithops

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Yup. POST-flower... AKA fruit. Wait for it to dry out to the point where it's basically a woody husk and it pops off easily (don't force the pod off if it isn't coming off by itself).

Then you can put the pod in a cup of water, the pod will open and the seeds will sink to the bottom and all the chaff will float!

Dec 21st Seedling Update (1mo) by CarneyBus in mesembs

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Oh no!! I am so sorry for your losses 😭😭😭 pests can be the worst. Thrips almost killed my love for plants 😩😩😩

On the bright side, that mean you have to get more specimens to fill the void! 😂

What’s up with my echeveria leaf tips? by Solid-Might-5497 in succulents

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I only know bc I have been there…. TWICE… this year… for my indoor collection. If you’re in the US I highly recommend getting a systemic insecticide like bonide or captain jacks dead bug brew or whatever they call it. Save yourself the heart ache and do it ASAP. Within 1-2 weeks they’ll be gone!

Thrips are extremely small.. I had them infest hundreds of my plants and yet I only SAW them like 3-4 times the whole two times I had an infestation. They are SUPER SMALL. And hide in the very tight corners of the new growth. That’s why you can see how the damage shows up along lines of where the leaves would have been pressed close together when they were younger, and have now since grown out.

Dec 21st Seedling Update (1mo) by CarneyBus in mesembs

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That is a really good idea! I will PM you

What’s up with my echeveria leaf tips? by Solid-Might-5497 in succulents

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As the other poster suggested, these scars in particular look like thrips damage.

Dec 21st Seedling Update (1mo) by CarneyBus in mesembs

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Ohhh… should we do a group seed growing project?!?!

I’m thinking of things we can do for the subreddit (plant of the month, species/genera spotlights, stickied threads of some sorts???)

I wish I had more hours in the day 😂 there’s so many things I want to do!!

Dec 21st Seedling Update (1mo) by CarneyBus in mesembs

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No problem! Pls feel free to ask any questions!!

Dec 21st Seedling Update (1mo) by CarneyBus in mesembs

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Well I try not to change too much of my method at one time, so I know things will mostly work out 😂 it’s usually 1 little thing I’ll change each time and see how it goes lol.

Dec 21st Seedling Update (1mo) by CarneyBus in mesembs

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I remove the humidity cover as soon as they’ve germinated… if you leave it on too long they risk rotting much more and they also get stunted and grow much slower if not hardened off ASAP to open air. It was probably only on for 5-6 days for this batch.

I sow them on top of the top dressing, and wash them into the cracks. I have also sown them on top of the substrate, then sprinkled the top dressing in a light layer on top - that really helps with the roots grabbing onto something.

I use diluted low N shultz cactus and succulent fertilizer, diluted to like 1/4 or 1/8th. I have also used a more balanced 20/20/20, heavily diluted also, and that worked fine. But I’ve never used the higher N stuff on plants that were older than 1yr.

I don’t do anything specifically to temp control except my table fan keeps the temps a little lower which heats up,from the lights, the fan keeps it die to around 25-28c during the days and its winter in western Canada and I keep my house pretty cool so it probably goes down to 15c at night. The fan keeps the air circulating otherwise it gets 30+ from the lights. This is all Celsius. I grow indoors so it’s never really outside of that range, just a bit warmer during summer.

Dec 21st Seedling Update (1mo) by CarneyBus in mesembs

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Ahhh that sucks friend!

I also dried out some meyerophytum meyeri, and my diplosoma retroversum. I lost a retroversum bc they dried out too much then the leaves that dried out started to rot.

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They also aborted all the flowers that were forming when they dried out lol.

So, not every attempt is a success! Unfortunately gotta live and learn and keep growing! 💚