Yeah I know how you feel hard to have anything outside unprotected

If I didn't have couple dogs on the loose around house wouldn't be chicken or a plant around probally lol

Yeah this cutting really rooted good I believe it wants to be a tree

Hopefully it will get fat

I probally cut this year's growth off the main plant again this next growing season and try root it as well

We have a dog but she won't stay outside alone. So I've been sitting outside with my bow the past few mornings.

You might try a live trap for those little rascals

That be kinda neat if you get with bow to though

Good luck with it

I just set a live trap out tonight for the rabbits. They have eaten about 6 sort of rare Aloe seedlings in the last couple weeks. I hope they like carrots. Isde, what Commiphoras did you lose?

Willis, I got a couple with the bow but of course there's more.

Aloe, I lost a Commiphora sp. Mdokora and a Commiphora africana v. glaucidula.

O yeah always more pest

Down here for now seems to be mealies only ..not seen the dreaded spider mites lol or 4 legged critters tearing up stuff did have some nasty wind other day blew some stuff off the benches

I'm hoping to get some repotting done in the coming weeks

Yours is looking good

Thanks man! Still more to go but at least I'm making a little progress.

isde

Your seedlings looks great!

Thanks Rina!

Decided to finally remove my dioscorea mexicana seedlings from my Hoya. Sadly I had to trim the leaves and vines all the way back, but I'm happy about the caudex growth.

Love those Dioscorea. How old are they?

Getting ready to repot some Haws...

Isde I figured they would be pretty good size with all the vining they did

Repotting is always fun SLD especially if there is a buried caudex involved in repotting chore

Thanks SLD, the date washed off so I don't really remember. I just know that I planted them sometime at the end of last year. I like them too, the caudex is a lot flatter and wider than my others.

Yea, Willis I remember you saying that. I wasn't sure what to expect, but I'm glad.

I noticed one of my other type of Dioscorea was pushing its self out of pot

Repotting plants that develop a caudes or fat roots is like being a kid on Christmas morning. You never know what you're going to unwrap :-)

Or, like a box of chocolates!

Whenever my mother got a box of chocolates she would take a tiny bite out of the bottom, then put it back and repeat until she found the one she wanted. After they were back in the box, you couldn't see that she'd done that. i'd grab one of her chocolates only to find there was a bite already missing :-(

Ah, memories...

Interesting thread, I had a good read.

Willis, what do you use for your mix? I like the looks of it. It looks well draining while at the same time holding a little moisture, like a perfect mix. What exactly is it comprised of? Great job

Great job to everyone. Such beautiful plants.

Mike I use pumice pine bark some potting soil but not to much and not every mix ,sometimes chicken grit ,turface to

I actually tried new way getting pine bark today ,I picked some bark of my pine trees and ran it through my chipper shredder worked pretty good pine bark I usually buy always has alot of wood Iin it this doesn't

I'm always messing with the mix. some of my stuff is in little more organic than should be just got to be more careful

Did some repotting today hoping for a fast return to growing season

My Adenia glauca was getting little pot bound

Now with more room to grow 8 inch wide pot now

These are cool plants like acidic soil and bone dry when dormant lots of water in growing season makes for good caudex growth

Those are so cool. I love plants with a causes like that. I recently acquired a albuca spiralis “frizzle sizzle” and a Boweia volubilis “climbing sea onion”. Still figuring out how to care for them.

Nice looking B volubilis I like there vines and caudex also

Dioscorea sp Madagascar

Repotted this plant while back hard to tell by pic but it's aaound. 1 inch

These are very drought tolerant Dioscorea and will rot very easy if watered when dormant

This one came from a node that formed on a vine I cut off plant which I rotted. The vine made several nodes I kept up with one and after many many months it started to grow

It made 2 more plants last growing season will be interesting to see this growing seasons results

Nice! wasn't a complete loss then.

Noticed my Dioscorea hemicryta had some roots growing out bottom of pot so decided to repot this morning

Here is what I found ,they like to grow. Down as well as up . lot different than how elphantipes does

Give it lot deeper pot

Nice caudex, I never would've expected that.

I did some repotting myself. My uncarina grandidieri hasn't slowed down growing at all so it outgrew the pot that I put it in late summer.

Nice one didn't you grow that one from seed

Man I got many plants that need repotting

I need order some pumice and make some wood pots and get ready for spring

Thanks, no the ones that I grew from seed are uncarina roeoesliana. They look similar but don't grow as large.

Yea me too, I'll have to pace myself lol. Where do you get your pumice?

Okay thought you had some that you grew from seed

I usually just get the pumice from

General pumice out in California here in the sticks of Arkansas it's not known at stores lol

It cost but I recycle

Got many of these Aloe ramosissima to get repotted got one done

Not massive yet but it can get there

Last year was a rough one for my pachypodium succulentum. Normally it holds leaves year round, but dropped them twice last year and they looked burned. I thought it was spidermites and treated with a granular. After it dropped the leaves again with the same symptoms, I decided to repot with fresh soil. I wish I would've gotten around to it sooner. It looks like I lost part of the caudex to rot at some point, and then it grew new roots. I cleaned it up, cut off all of the old dried rot and put it in fresh soil, fingers crossed.

Looks like it healed itself and going to make it Isde

I got one I put it in floor dry and perlite seems to liked it pacy's are not my speciality lol

I do like the flowers of the succulentum

I sure hope so, I just have to figure out what changed and caused the rot.

I know the feeling we just got to keep on trying new things and see what works

Did little repotting the other day first O pachypus is root tuber from the larger one

Both have actually gained root mass they sure like to grow under ground more than above it seems might be how they got there name

Decided to do little repotting today been wondering how the roots where looking on the Euphorbia hedyotoides

Got to raise it some and have a over 8 inch exposed root spread now and getting close to 5 inch above soil level

Topped it also as you can see in before an after pic

VERY NIce!!!. I need to do some reporting AND descaling but I can't get to it.... too much work. Drat.

I know the feeling about work I just made some time today

Being I work at home it helps,

but I reckon I will go back out to the shop after lunch and work so keep light on haha

I work at home in woodshed BUT I need to put in 2 bids and get some materials ordered or I am in trouble for the month. Plus we are building a house and my cactus are suffering. I need to focus but can't get rid of the guilt watching my plants die of neglect..

Wow! That's pretty sad when cactus are suffering.

Euphorbia hedyotoides starting to leaf out from the recent prune and repotting always a good sign things going well .

they seem to bud back from thick chops and not much die back from thick branch cuts or trunk cuts

tanpexoctics Willis

You really know how to grow all those plants. I really like any and all, and wish I could buy some of your extras (if you have any!...)

Beautiful work and happy plants.

Rina I'm trying to get where I get seeds from my plants to get more of them .

most of my stuff don't do well from cuttings . and seeds are my only option ,so a work in progress

Mike thanks for the compliment I try to do them well but sometimes it's easy

Here some Euphorbia hedyotoides seedlings from a seed pod collect back in December 3 seeds in the pod and all 3 germed

Some Dioscorea ephantipes that I started back in October not my seeds but from wild African plants Well over a 100