Forwarding again for Id assistance please.
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Indranil Banerjie <[email protected]> Date: 22 September 2010 09:55 Subject: [efloraofindia:47885] Help with identifying some cacti To: efloraofindia <[email protected]> I am an amateur so please excuse my level of ignorance but I have some beautiful cacti that I have nurtured for several years without knowing their names and hence their preferences and behaviour. I have two questions: 1. Could some kind soul please identify these: http://subcontinent.com/misc/cacti/cactus_20100914_1888.jpg These are small ones. About 5 inches high. Just did not survive in the original pot or in other pots. One lot miraculously did and this is it. Cannot figure out their behaviour at all. http://subcontinent.com/misc/cacti/cactus_20100914_1895.jpg These hard skinned fellows are about 2 inches high. They grow slowly and spill out from their pots. They have very shallow underdeveloped roots. Look nice in a cluster. http://subcontinent.com/misc/cacti/cactus_20100914_1908.jpg An extremely unusual and hardy cacti or succulent. Plants spring up wherever a finger size offshoot falls off. This one has pullulated like some strange organism from outer space.So far it has grown to a height of about 10 inches. 2. How to make cacti thrive? Is liquid feeding preferable or soil enrichment with bone meal? Thanks in advance Indranil -- With regards, J.M.Garg ([email protected]) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' The whole world uses my Image Resource of more than a *thousand species* & eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants etc. (arranged alphabetically & place-wise): http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg. You can also use them for free as per liberal licensing conditions attached with each image. For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian Flora, please visit/ join our Google e-group- Efloraofindia: http://groups.google.co.in/group/indiantreepix (more than 1400 members & 50,000 messages on 10/10/10 & with a database of around 4100 species on 31/8/10)
