Hi Pierre, Thanks for the help. The flower color you see on the pictures is not different from the real color. Dan P.s. check your email! Pierre Gambart...
Hi. Does anyone think that it would be possible to re-root a grafted A. myriostigma cv. Hakuun on to its own roots. If so, what would be the best time of the...
I have seen a grafted Loph Jourdania that looks normal, but some of the offshoots are varigated and/or orange or yellow, the others are normal. I have never...
Hi all, several times me and friends have sown horizonthalonius seeds, and if lucky just one out of ten or more seeds germinated. The seeds have been tried 2-3...
Hi Dan! Try to scarify the seeds. Use a scalpel to incise the test. Water will then pass through the test and trigger germination process. I've tried untreated...
Hi Bjørn, Thanks for the info. Actually I have the excact same experience as you - habitat seeds come up within 7 days, and culture seeds are impossible to...
Hi Pierre, Thanks for the tip. I will try that right away! BTW, take a look at what happened to your lopho seeds. I think it would be intersting for others in...
Hi Pierre, Well just to make things more complicated can you or anyone help with this ID of my plant. I acquired 2 plants last year at ELK & was told they were...
Hi Phil & Pierre, Ziegleri is just an old name for a white or yellow flowered form of diffusa (leutea?). Are you guys going to ELK - I'll be there. Cheers, ...
Hi, could someone gives me an advice?? My A. asterias and other cacti and lithops are been eaten by mice, I've tried with some rodenticides but now mice don´t...
It may look funny But please take it seriously as it has been practiced by my ancesters for centuries to repell all sorts of mice etc Sprinkle dust of burnt...
I have my cacti/succulent collection in my little greenhouse every summer and mice get in there all the time. We set several mousetraps, baited with peanut...
Hi guys! Hi list. ... Yeah, Mr SuperGrafter! I'm amazed, indeed. Grafting such tiny seedlings is out of my reach ;-))))) (to list : I'm the poorest grafter...
Hi Pierre, Thanks for you fascinating & informative e-mail. Yes I read the Tony Johnston article recently but as you say I think I have jourdaniana & as I read...
I agree with Susan, peanut butter works great. It may not be possible in every situation but a good old tomcat is always the best cure for mice! ... ...
I have about 50 small lophophora plants/seedlings that I want to trade/sell. They include Loph Will-Cardona zac, Lutea, and wills from Jim Hogg county stock....
I just want to say that you can now see some new cacti photo albums on my web site. I hope that you wil enjoy them. See you from Denmark Per Bünger cacti...
I have a number of LR seeds available for exchange incl. Ariocarpus, Turbinicarpus, Strombocactus (both forms/flower colours), Japanese Astrophytums etc...if...
The days are getting shorter and the nights are getting cooler, so of course the Arios are starting to bud. I've gone a little wacky over the last few seasons...
Hi all, I have some grafted plants, bought from this years ELK, i noticed some of the stock has a silver top, i presume this is some sort of preventative...
Hi Andy, Its just a silvery skin I think that forms on the dried cut on certain grafting stocks - Eriocereus jusbertii by any chance? Cheers, Geoff Bailey ...
Hi Andy, Some growers use aluminium powder on the cut surface after they have made a graft. It's done to prevent infections. It's not used in the area between...
OI would like to sell the following: 2 Loph Diffusa v Koehres 1" plants- Grafted on Myrtillo $8 each 1 Loph Deciphiens 1" plants- Grafted on Myrtillo $8 2 Loph...
Hi Dan, I could not find a photo of Echinocactus horizonthalonius var. moelleri on your website. Echinocactus horizonthalonius is extremely widely distributed...