Fulviceps 'Aurea' tend to turn pale or bluish over the year with the new leaves being more green. Actually they're never really green like Albinica is for instance. Mine are in their mid-year stage right now. I like their shape very much, chunky with a nice flat top. They were recently put in the corner to prevent them from getting too much sun, I think they like it better this way.
Nice. And even better if they turn bluish !!
ReplyDeleteYou think? A little more and they might turn into fulviceps v. lactinea (which I also like very much) :D
DeleteThey've been "in the corner" for a week and seem to show a little more green now.
И вправду зеленое золото! Люблю этих ребят!
ReplyDeleteА как там поживает fulviceps 221 который три пары листьев выгнал и никак засушить не мог?
:)
DeleteТот поживает, как и ожидалось, не особо. После того, как ему пришлось переварить две пары листьев, новые уменьшились в 3 раза. Но жив. Наблюдаю.
These are beautiful Lithops, and I love the tiny dots of blue on them. They look like Australian Aboriginal traditional paintings. :-) What do you use as your potting mix? What do you think of commercial cacti/succulent potting mix? Your website is really cool and helpful. Thank you very much for sharing your knowledge.
ReplyDeleteI like it, too. Those are tannin dots (tanniniferous idioplasts) that are most prominent in fulviceps, especially during the regeneration. Their function isn't fully clear so let's think it's for our enjoyment. :)
DeleteThank you! I'm very happy if I can help with something.
My potting soil is pure pumice. Which means just the pumice stones that you see on the pictures all the way down. I wouldn't recommend the cacti potting soil (at least what I see in stores around here). There's still way to much humus and you have too little control over watering and fertilizing. If you take cacti soil you should probably add a lot of gravel (well-drained mix)... Stehen Hammer writes about soil mixes for mesembs here: http://www.vivante-passerelle.net/index.php/en/steven-hammer/the-art-of-growing-mesembs/17-principes-generaux-de-culture
Thank you Rika, you're awesome, and very kind. I hope good things will come your way. I hope to be able to share some knowledge too when I have more experience and skill in caring for Lithops. :-) Just another question, do you care for any other plants, and what species/cultivar is your all time favourite Lithops?
DeleteThanks! You too~
DeleteAll kind of experience in this field is worth to be shared ;)
I have very limited space here so My plants are mostly Lithops, but I also have some other Mesembs and Succulents in general. There are posts about some of them in this blog already, like Titanopsis, Frithia, Rabiea, others are Sempervivum, Crassula, Astroloba, Aloinopsis, Haworthia and Neohenricia. Still need to take photos of those.
My all time favorite? I really like L. lesliei, as banal as it sounds. ;) Lesliei cultivars as well as "regulars" are just so colorful and the patterns are very delicate.