Hi Willy, Werner, et al I have to agree on the strong sunlight frying especially young plants. I have altogether stopped sowing seed in spring, and do so late...
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Andrew van Ginkel
bispinosum
Sep 6, 2007 5:38 pm
Hello After a long cold winter the sun has come back and my Lithops have started to shed their winter coats. In the next few months while they emerge, I am...
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pentelbury@...
xspentelbury
Sep 7, 2007 8:26 am
Hi Andrew My lot is well on their way to a new season's growth. Best time of year to get hands-on with Lithops. I'm already starting to sow a few pots worth,...
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Andrew
bispinosum
Sep 10, 2007 1:29 pm
Hi Xavier I am also keeping an eye on the weather, and will most likely only start sowing late October - early November. There is always a little cold spell at...
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Peter and Celeste Pon...
peterpongracz
Sep 10, 2007 6:36 pm
Hi Everyone, I recently acquired several Lithops after always wanting to have some, I have what are probably the same questions that have been asked a million ...
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pentelbury@...
xspentelbury
Sep 10, 2007 8:34 pm
Hi Andrew I'm also keeping tabs on the weather still. We are in for some more rain tomorrow and intermittently for the rest of the week, bleh! I've only got a...
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pentelbury@...
xspentelbury
Sep 10, 2007 9:27 pm
Hello Peter and Celeste First off, try http://www.lithops.info/, there's loads of advice there. Your plants were probably sown and raised in the northern...
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Peter and Celeste Pon...
peterpongracz
Sep 10, 2007 10:04 pm
Hi Xavier, Thanks for the info. I have been to that homepage you recommended, it is quite awesome. It helped me to identify 7 of my 10 plants. The other 3 I...
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Andrew
bispinosum
Sep 11, 2007 6:22 am
Hi Celeste and Péter Welcome, and congrats on your new acquisition :o) Your Lithops are far from home, both theirs and mine, but I am sure we can help out ...
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pentelbury@...
xspentelbury
Sep 11, 2007 7:27 am
Hi Celeste I would be glad to help identify your other mystery Lithops. I'm?sure the other experienced vets here can also chip in. Regarding the numbering...
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Peter and Celeste Pon...
peterpongracz
Sep 11, 2007 9:49 am
Hi Xavier, Thanks for the info. I will try to take pictures and have Péter upload them in the next day or so, is there a place I should put them on the...
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Peter and Celeste Pon...
peterpongracz
Sep 11, 2007 10:13 am
Hi Andrew, Thanks for the welcome, everyone is so nice in this group, it is a pleasure to be here. The windowsill gets about 4-5 hours in the winter I guess,...
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Christiaan van Schalk...
krisjan_vs
Sep 11, 2007 2:01 pm
Hi Peter, Celeste and other Lithopians I think it is amoral and plain stupid to try to asign a Cole number to a plant. It either comes with locality data, or...
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Andrew
bispinosum
Sep 11, 2007 5:07 pm
Hi Xavier Glad to hear you are settling in :o) Thanks for the encouragement and wishes of good fortune. I am still holding thumbs we can meet Steven hammer,...
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Andrew
bispinosum
Sep 11, 2007 5:21 pm
Hi Celeste Xavier has given you a fairly thorough guide, so you should be able to look after your Lithops. Do not worry if you make mistakes, it is from our...
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Peter and Celeste Pon...
peterpongracz
Sep 11, 2007 8:59 pm
Hi Christiaan, I am very sorry to have made such a serious error, it was not my intention by any means to upset you or anyone. As this number and name system...
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Peter and Celeste Pon...
peterpongracz
Sep 11, 2007 9:26 pm
Hi Xavier and Lithops Vets, I placed the pictures of our recent acquisitions to the photos section under Pongracz collection. The first three pics are labeled...
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pentelbury@...
xspentelbury
Sep 12, 2007 12:32 am
Hi Celeste and Peter Nice to hear about your many interests! Regards Cole numbers, what Christiaan says is true (and yes some people do feel more strongly...
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Peter and Celeste Pon...
peterpongracz
Sep 12, 2007 7:03 am
Hi Xavier, Thank you so much! I understand about national pride and protection, I am married to a Hungarian! I moved to Hungary as he will not leave Hungary....
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Willy Verheulpen
imbsysop
Sep 12, 2007 7:34 am
... OT Hi from the land of "beer chocolate and dioxine chickens" aka Belgium .. Would never have associated "beer" as being a national "heritage"; of SA :-D .....
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pentelbury@...
xspentelbury
Sep 12, 2007 10:08 pm
Hi Willy About the local SA beer, I was being light-hearted. Beer in SA is important though! Now how about sending some of that excellent chocolate! Regards, ...
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pentelbury@...
xspentelbury
Sep 12, 2007 10:26 pm
Hi Celeste, just a short reply (it's late again!), see if you can order a copy of the Coles latest edition: "Lithops - Flowering Stones", from Cactus & Co. It...
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Christiaan van Schalk...
krisjan_vs
Sep 13, 2007 2:59 pm
Hi all My opinion: 3: Why bromfieldii ? I've not seen many of those rubrications on bromfieldii. I'll settle for dorothea. 4. Definitely not bromfieldii...
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pentelbury@...
xspentelbury
Sep 13, 2007 6:24 pm
Hi Christiaan, I'll trade your climate for mine...deal? I wish. No.3 is to brown for a dorothea, my Bromfieldii C.348/368s?have rubrications. Check...
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pentelbury@...
xspentelbury
Sep 13, 2007 6:30 pm
Hi again, the reason I thought No.6 was a rubrobrunnea, is that it's windows are?quite dark.?The Warrenton forms windows are?more brown-green in colour, and...
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Werner du Toit
wernerdutoi
Sep 13, 2007 6:43 pm
Hi Celeste, This is my take on the photos: 1) villetti subsp. Villetti 2) olivacea var.olivacea 3) bromfieldii var. insularis 4)...
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Andrew
bispinosum
Sep 13, 2007 11:47 pm
Hi Celeste You should try growing Lithops from seeds, it is very rewarding and in doing so, you can build up a collection of plants you want, and not only ones...
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Andrew
bispinosum
Sep 14, 2007 12:20 am
Hi Werner and Celeste I would tend to agree with your identifications Werner, but at the same time, identifying plants from photos is never 100% accurate. If a...
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bty398393
Sep 16, 2007 3:16 pm
I think you've been given good names for most of your Lithops but I'm uncomfortable with calling the first one L. villetii. It looks to me to be completely...
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pentelbury@...
xspentelbury
Sep 16, 2007 7:46 pm
Hi Ian, you are right, it could be a number of things. I think it is definitely a hybrid.?Really strange plant, almost a whole new species, which of course it...
