Carpobrotus rossii propagation

[apothecary]

Hey, this question mostly aimed at darcy ('cos he sells them) but anyone else who has grown this succulent.

Mother just got back from the beach with 5 or 6 plantlets of coastal pigface.

Standard cacti propagation? Cut bottom, callous and plant?

Do these things grow in plain beach sand (as photos I've seen suggest) or will they do ok in soil too?

Thanks.

[caludia]

i sell em too!!

they are very easy. Seed is ludicrously easy... you will wind up with pigfaces in all your special pots, and be weeding them for the next 2 months

[apothecary]

[apothecary]

Uh dude, you kind of forgot to say how you propagate cuttings

[caludia]

sorry, they will do fine in normal soil.

Give their roots some room too!

[caludia]

 

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Uh dude, you kind of forgot to say how you propagate cuttings [Razz]

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that's cos i prop by seed... As wittgenstein advised, i am just "passing over in silence"....

if cuttings dont work for you then i'll send you some seed, cos you seem nice enough

[ 27. March 2005, 15:45: Message edited by: MetalGumbo-RaginCajun ]

[narayan]

Recentley i took some cuttings from a small aptenia plant which is another member of the Aizoaceae family.

All i did was cut off a piece which had a few leaves and stick it in some cacti potting mix and keep it pretty wet for a couple of weeks and its going pretty well.

[mescalito]

LOL it will flower in a bowl of water.

[smogs]

i got some and wacked it in really shit dirt... very heavy in clay and it grew fine... i just kept it moist for a while

then i moved house

but yeah just stick it in any dirt and keep it wet

its not fussy at all

and i want to try making jam with the fruit... i love eating them... MMMM

also at my g/f grand parents place theres a shite laod of them and theres another species or strain? that have orange flowers instead of red and they have a pretty different flavour!

anyone know anything about this?

[mr toodly]

Have we established sufficient mesembrine content?

[smogs]

from memory this was discussed on SAB AGES ago... to the conclusion that there are only trace amounts and it wouldnt be worth trying to extract it... specially when u already have something like sceletium!

i have eaten a shitload of fruit and found no noticeable effects

[apothecary]

I didn't post this for ethnobotanical interest, just that mother brought some home and wanted me to get it rooted, because she likes the look of the flowers

[mr toodly]

I was only wondering as Carpobrotus spp. are rife here in southern California.

[mr toodly]

I was only wondering as Carpobrotus spp. are rife here in southern California.

[mr toodly]

Nothing.

[caludia]

apothecary i was cleaning my carpobrotus tray today and came across a cutting that had naturally broken off an rooted.

here tis -

http://www.guruna.com/misc/carp_root.jpg

so that should be better than 1000 words shouldnt it?

how freaking sad is it that i notice this, take a picture specially cos i remembered a forum thread, than open adobe, shrink it, sharpen it (sorry it is still blurrY) and then freaking upload it to my web site just to include the pic in the reply?

time to take a good hard look at my time management. Sweet Jeebus.

[apothecary]

MG, you rule.

:D