Wednesday, March 26, 2014

L. lesliei ssp. burchellii today (6 pics)

These L. lesliei ssp. burchellii C308 seedlings hatched in June 2011 and this year they finally present an adult-like look. You can follow back their development here, here, here and here
On the pic below is my "open-windowed selection". :) I'll make an entry about the selection of heavily patterned burchellii shortly.

4 comments:

  1. Hi Rika, I really like your blog! Hope I was in Germany to visit the lithops nurseries. ;) just wondering how do you take the lithops out of their pots? It seems to me that their roots can easily be damaged if I pull them out lol

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    1. Hi Clare :)
      Thank you for reading my blog!
      If you use plastic pots and pure pumuce as a substrate like me you just squeeze the pot from all sides to loosen the stones and then pull out the plants. You can damage the roots all you want. I normally remove most of the spongy roots when I transplant leaving only the main root. You always transplant from dry soil into dry soil so that the roots aren't active at the time anyway. And if you transplant in winter (meanung Oct to Apr) you don't have to worry at all because the plants haven't been watered since months and won't even notice anything.
      Hope it helps :)

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  2. The problem I have when the seedlings are different is that I want to keep them all.

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    1. I understand it so well! It's like every plant has something special to it so that you just can't help but keep all of them :)

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