Wednesday, January 29, 2014

Steineckeana's new shiny faces (2 pics)

My steineckeana babies are three years old today. With this year's regeneration they start to look much more mature. In the photo below almost all of them already have changed their leaves. In fact many of my lithops already have. I'm not watering yet though, waiting for the spring and better light.

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  1. I have never grown steineckeana. There is a lot of variation in the seedlings.

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    1. Yes, there is. Many are quite pseudotrucatella-looking. There is some room for selection work depending on what you like :)

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  2. As with Alain, I've never grown steineckeana. My primary interest has always been in growing the standard species and their varieties. I haven't done much with the hybrids and cultivars, it's always nice to enjoy them through someone else - thank you. I notice that the plant in the upper left of the photo looks very much like L. pseudotruncatella. I guess this is as it should be since that species is supposedly one of the parents. The mystery is the identity of the "other" parent, which many believe isn't a lithops at all.

    Rika the seedlings all look great - plump and healthy. You are the windowsill lithops Master! :)

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    1. You're too kind :) Thank you!
      I am surprised myself about how well they grow for a non-standard species. I have nearly as many of them now, 3 years later as have germinated. Without any problems whatsoever. They seem to like it here.
      It's true about the pseudotrucatella look. I have 2 pots. The one on the photo is steineckeana-looking steineckeana. The other one contains mostly pseudotrucatella-looking selection. They haven't regenerated yet so there's nothing to show. I'll take pictures as soon as they do. It's quite interesting because they have a shape of steineckeana but heavily patterned pseudotrucatella tops :)

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