28 February 2009
Winter losses
Posted by Stuart under: Cacti .
So far, touch wood, my losses haven’t been too heavy. Off to the great compost heap in the sky are:
- A nice Astrophytum myriostigma that I’d had for a good few years.
- A small gymnocalycium seedling given to me by a friend (I forget the species)
- Two plants of Opuntia bentonii which didn’t cope outdoors in the cold snap
- Opuntia decumbens, already illustrated on here a while back
- Echinocereus ochoterenae which got wet in the cold frame and gave up
I nearly lost both my digitostigmas due to the drying out of their ferocactus stocks, but have rehydrated them in the propagator. One is definitely out of trouble, the other should, I think, be OK. As soon as they’re well, they’re coming off those grafts for rooting.