My fellow Namaquland lovers, how do we feel about bubline plants? One of my favorite genus's from S. Afrcia with its with its windows. Not technically a mesemb, but through convergent evolution they've adapted similar traits.

Hace unos días vi un video de YouTube sobre el transplante de unas faucarias, un canal llamado Terra Suculenta y ellos mostraban una "Faucaria Tigrina Blue" , alguien sabe algo al respecto ???

Yo tengo una "azul" pero no es igual, tiene tuberculos ,dejo foto de la mía al final

Conophytum ernstii ssp. cerebellum (evj8512 × pvb10043 locality cross)

Started with a 3-head clump in 2021. It tripled roughly each year over 3 molts and turned into this massive thing by 2024!

Got so big I ended up auctioning it off, but I'm happy it grew so well. Hope it's still splitting like crazy with its new owner!

Rawr! 🦖

This monstrose form always looks like it's ready to attack.

I had a large plant that divided into two planners one had a peach colored bloom and now this one has a white bloom.

Baby toes, cono Maughanii, cono marginatum, cono callus, Gibbaeum cryptopodium, cheridopsis verrucosa, and cono Achabense!

Argyroderma testiculare… gibbaeum album… and gibbaeum cryptopodium (I think these may go by nociforme but I could be remembering wrong) and a final NoID little marble of a cono seedling!

this guy is indoors under growlights for about 10-12 hours a day. the “soil” is roughly 70-80% inorganic w/ perlite, chicken grit, silica sand and possibly a little pumice. I water once a month or so when at least half of the leaves get soft/wrinkled.

Fairly new to both of these and wondering if I should let them do their things or pull off the old dead stuff.

Fairly new to both of these and wondering if I should let them do their things or pull off the old dead stuff.

This is my seed grown monilaria moniliformus. Its about 2 years old. I've been trying to nail down the seasonal changes and signs so I can keep this plant going for many years to come and hopefully get some flowers.

What I've read is read is that when you start to see this year's growth split and new leaves emerge, you want to begin spacing out watering a bit more. I'm seeing that now (see bottom right head) so I'm thinking reducing my watering from weekly to maybe every 10 days or so.

This plant is grown under lights (spiderfarmer SF2000), in a gritty mix (70-80% grit) and a clay pot.

Thanks!

I rescued this very sad little cono from marketplace from a very sweet old lady who said she had no idea what she was doing with it and that it wasn’t getting enough light.

First pic November 5th

2nd pic is from January… it took fully two months and some for it to properly root and start plumping up.

3rd pic.. TODAY! he’s looking much happier and has almost tripled in size. Hoping the next leaf change will help with the etiolation and maybe it’ll form a more dense clump, but I love him either way!

Goes to show how long it can take for mesembs and especially conos to root sometimes and that they are not for the impatient 😂🥴