Hi there,
My name is Basil Gorlt & I am from Pretoria, South Africa. I only
started with Hawothias recently & only have a small collection. My dad
is...
Hi Basil. Welkom to the group, what do you want for tips, becose Haw. grow in your country, and most of us live far away. I olso grow some plants of Kotie !,...
How do you root pups or a plant that has lost it's roots? Do you water more or less or the same? I'm pretty new to the hobby and I recently got what I think...
+Hi Brent, good question. With haws and gasterias, if you do not have root tissue on an offset after dividing a cluster, you may or may not get the offset to ...
Hi Brent When a Haworthia has lost his roots, you take the plant,, clean the plant good, not a bit, wait a few weeks till you see new roots , pot up and he...
Great information Cok! I have an Aloe haworthiodes where on two bloom stalks there appear to be growing tiny plants. I understand some bloom stalks will do...
Hi Harold. The best thing you can do is nothing. that`s very easy. just wait and see what hapend. the flowerstam dry till the offset,then you can cut it off...
Breck, Thanks for the reply. I didn't mean to imply that they didn't have any root tissue, just very little for the size of the pup. I pulled one out and the...
Hi again Brent.and all Shriveling up for Haw. leaves is normal, But not so quick,mostly after ± 5,6 year depend on the specie.,mutica is one big leaved retus...
Cok, Thanks for the reply. What you say makes sense and I currently have these pups in pretty bright direct sunlight and they do have some red/purple color on...
+Well Brent, doesn't matter one way or the other. The technique I suggested will work for both conditions. As others have noted, outside leaves dying is...
Hi at group, for me has reason Cok, it is not important the mix, sure for a development of the roots is better a land the much light, i use akadama and...
It seems the concensus is that air is needed to form new roots. That wouldn't have been my first guess, but I'm glad everyone seems to say so. I took one pup...
pumice is like hard concrete bits much heavier and nicer than perlite for succulents. perlite is expanded in an oven, of volcanic origin, and is very...
Dear Brent, The main difference between pumice and perlite, as far as I know, is that pumice has an "open cell" structure, and perlite has a "closed cell"...
I do have another quick question. What is the difference between pumice and perlite? Brent Nothing [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
The biggest difference is price! They behave similarly. Pumice is a little heavier, I guess, so it might not float to the top of your pots as quickly; but it...
Hey Ken, I'm new to the list, but I have used a product like Permatill with my sansevieria's for the last 6 months or so. I forget the product name, but it is...
I recently found four descriptions of Gasteria species (incl. G. polita) in the PlantZAfica web site, which publicises merit-worthy plants for SANBI . Since...
As I understand it Brent, perlite is a man-made product created by "exploding" some substance, whereas with pumice Nature does the exploding. Pumice, for me,...
I agree that G. polita is an attractive species, however, in my limited experience growing it (I have two clones from Gariep from 2 years ago or so) even the...
Hai Elliott No problems with G. polita some othrs have it but not bad just a spot.and a few plants. and the normal reason is to many water, at the wrong time,...
Greetings, I have not been following all of the discussion on pumice but both pumice and perlite are the same. Perlite is small pumice 1/8² or so that is ...
+Hi Elliott! Long time no see. No I haven't had problems with black spot on polita, but then with that species distinctive shiny leaf surface I've always been...
We wish a happy new year and a lot of fun with the haw. to the members of this group. George, your site is very good and your home hybrids also to. To made so...
Hello haworthiafolks! Can you, please, give me some advice which is the best way and time of year to propagate H. lockwoodi??? I have one single plant ( thanks...
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