Haworthias: How to Sow Seeds et cetera

Time to update! If you saw this post, you're probably expecting that all this trouble poking at haworthias could not possibly have ended there. Those seeds did go in. The experiment was not trouble-free though; hence this follow-up post.  

Haworthias: Hand-Pollination

Have you ever tried hand-pollinating your haworthias? It turned out to be easy, you should try it. You just need a couple of tweezers, a pad of paper, a pen and, if your eyes are bad, a magnifying visor. Maybe an audiobook. Like "I Contain Multitude". Or Cream's 1966 magnum, Fresh Cream. For the freaks who do not like Cream, I recommend Blink 182.

These seeds could soon become hybrid plants---Haworthia emelyae as female parent and Haworthia sylviae as male parent.

Eye Candy: Winter Growers

If giant tube worms can thrive in deep ocean vents, why not plants that wake up in winter, right? Nature abhors a vacuum, after all. If there is space, evolution will fill it. (Yeah, you read that right----evolution, which is real and happening right now!) So when nearly everything is slowing down for the freeze in the northern regions, these plants take over.

Nothing here but pictures!

Tylecodon ventricosus

When Haworthias Get Into Trouble (Updated)

Haworthia bayeri (EN)

Buying live plants and getting them bare-root is always an iffy business. Most of them do fine when they are potted but sometimes--and you can't blame them--they throw a hissy-fit and refuse to revivify.