Saturday, July 4, 2015

New pebbles 2 (5 pics)

I'll continue the introductions :)
The new guys are the lovely L. dinteri C206 from Cono's Paradise nursery (german), L. lesliei v. hornii C015 from Rare Plants nursery (czech) and some surprisingly well-grown L. schwantesii from a local hardware store.

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  1. Do you visit nurseries or buy though the post.

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    1. I almost never can visit nurseries. I've only been to Kakteen-Haage greenhouses so far. If I buy grown plants I almost always buy them online (nurseries or even ebay). Sometimes there are nicely grown lithops without cole numbers in local shops so I buy them if they are pretty or interesting, it's cheap.

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  2. I usually try to visit a nursery while on holiday. The Mesemb Event is also a good source of plants. The Coles say Lithops seedlings should not have C numbers now as they are not from their plants. I guess they should be ex C ...

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    1. Ah you're lucky! I wished I could go there, too :)
      Without Cole numbers we wouldn'tbe able to find the seeds we want. What I find quite desturbing is how people on ebay are trying to sell regular lithops under fake thought-up crazy cultivar names. Some cultivar-obsessed growers might believe that...

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    2. I think the point the Coles are making is that the seeds now being distributed with C numbers do not represent their collections but subsequent generations which are not necessarily like the original. It does seem there are more and more cultivars around. I like some of them but they are often sold when not stable.

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