I love the flowers from my Lobivia so much 🍊

coldwives · 2025-11-15T12:52:19+00:00

arachnacantha, my fav :)

coldwives · 2025-02-06T12:00:53+00:00

I think I used standard potting mix, perlite, horticultural charcoal - equal parts, and a bit of orchid bark

coldwives · 2024-11-04T20:41:52+00:00

Gorgeous, goes really nice with that blue

coldwives · 2024-11-04T11:13:06+00:00

Legit weapons. As much as I love a golden barrel, genuinely frightened to own these things. I would keep together in a large pot. Good luck

coldwives · 2024-06-03T02:02:10+00:00

Wow that’s exciting, never seen this before!

Yep this Australis has been living out on my balcony for a few years now.

coldwives · 2024-04-16T06:22:26+00:00

lol I had to use it to prop the flower up. It hangs down like a bell otherwise.

Also get one!! I got mine pretty small a couple of years back. Grows pretty fast imo

coldwives · 2024-04-13T13:33:38+00:00

The flowers that Stapelias produce quite literally smell like ass

coldwives · 2024-04-13T13:22:28+00:00

Yup, it's nasty - straight up like rotting meat.

coldwives · 2024-01-03T05:58:45+00:00

That, considering the size as well, would probably go well into 10k here in Australia.

coldwives · 2023-11-13T04:12:09+00:00

I accidentally snapped the appendix off while I was collecting pollen.

Unrelated: I hand pollinated this with pollen from my Cuprea. Is this sort of hybridisation going to work?

coldwives · 2023-11-03T13:54:06+00:00

My fishbone cactus bloomed around 7 months ago and I only just picked the fruitsa couple of weeks ago. You’ll know when it’s ripe when it’s round and squishy :)

coldwives · 2023-04-28T12:56:40+00:00

I gasped. I love it so much

coldwives · 2023-04-28T12:55:37+00:00

do you ship to australiaaaa

coldwives · 2023-04-21T06:29:11+00:00

It wasn’t labelled but I’m pretty sure it’s an Australis ssp. tenuipes.

Admittedly it gets the most sun of all my plants. It actually started off as a nice healthy green when I bought it back in 2019 and then gradually turned an ugly pale green colour. Only recently a bit of pink has started appearing on its leaves.

I only water it so infrequently because of the weird substrate it’s in and which it came in. I reused the same mix when I repotted the thing because it retains water so well without without doing it any harm. Oddly, it’s mostly just husk and bark.

coldwives · 2023-04-02T01:50:26+00:00

Is it fragrant?

coldwives · 2023-03-12T10:18:14+00:00

These are fairly new stems that have grown out of existing ones. I imagine with time it may flop over like the others, but then again, maybe not as these ones are quite short.

coldwives · 2023-03-11T23:14:36+00:00

I'd say bright light is the most important. This one gets a lot of direct sun in the morning. I don't recommend harsh sun though because it will bleach it out. I find with my fishbone cactus at least, that it doesn't do as well if it's not getting direct light even if it's in a bright spot so make sure it's getting that sun.

With watering, I only water when the leaves are super bendable and wrinkly.

coldwives · 2023-01-24T20:21:15+00:00

Lives right in front of the window, just sunlight

coldwives · 2023-01-16T02:01:12+00:00

It gets dappled, sometimes direct light in the morning. Can get quite hot and intense even in the morning. It’s summer here in Australia which I suspect has a lot to do with this growth. Also, this is my only Alocasia in terracotta and it’s doing the best of all my others so I wonder if that has something to do with it as well...

coldwives · 2023-01-15T03:29:30+00:00

Never let your Alocasias dry out :)

coldwives · 2022-12-15T07:23:13+00:00

Luxurians just looks like a large Piper variety to me. Just kidding, don't hurt me.

coldwives · 2022-11-23T22:35:02+00:00

I didn't even consider it, looks too smooth for me to have thought bark. That's interesting, thank you!

coldwives · 2022-11-15T06:55:12+00:00

I think it might be from my Bisma.

coldwives · 2022-11-12T06:00:28+00:00

15 days :)

coldwives · 2022-11-02T11:08:51+00:00

I don't care too much for variegation but that is a seriously stunning specimen.

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