My favorite Haworthia; (at least for now)
I purchased this on ebay last December. Haworthia Pumila X Fasciata hybrid, and them separated it into 3 pots. The first one is different than the others even while it was connected together into one base. Love the design on the inner leaf. It is like some ancient hieroglyphics. Also it growing leaves in pairs opposite instead of rosette.
Stush
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7 years agolast modified: 7 years agoThat first one is tres cool, Stush!
I only have 3 haworthia - so far ;)
My fave is probably my very first succulent ever, H. Limifolia (?) simply because it has not kicked the bucket on me even through about 2 years worth of mistreatment due to ignorance.
Here it is getting its first re-potting ever :O I had to remove all the pups and a bunch of old gnarly foliage from the bottom. Don't know if any of them are going to make it at this point, it's wait and see.
I also have a white stripey one (fasciata?) that I purchased recently in bloom, and an Ikea haw (NOID for now) in a temp pot while it adjusts after being repotted from heavy wet peat.
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7 years agoVery cool, Stush.. How do it get that lovely color? My Haworthias are getting several hours of direct morning sun, but they'd get ugly blackish burn if exposed to more sunlight (the next level of exposure would be direct full morning sun until noon time).
Bunkfree, H. limifolia is my favorite too for the same reason as yours.. ;) it's one of my first plant which survives my care and even have pup (I separated them a few weeks ago)
7 years agolast modified: 7 years agoAhh, H. limifolia, an early love, it's just so regal & looks like living sculpture.
Here mine's got some pups too.
Bunkfree,
Thx for explaining, sounds good. Also that you've learned to wait to water, even better.
My original favorite Haw was veinosa tesselata, which I haven't had for a while, but loved the pattern on the top of the leaves.
Lena
- 7 years ago
Showing my H. veinosa tesselata;
It now has many pups and need divided.
Also another favorite below;
And my current purchase;
And an older one I had that might be the same kind;
I am currently looking for one called 'pumila donuts'. I still have about 40 more to show but need current pictures.
- 7 years ago
Another reason to love this favorite of mine. Look what I found growing today. First time too!!
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It has nothing to do with my hands, Stan. It's the granny glasses I use! The method is pretty easy.
The most important thing to know is the pollen at the end of the filament is ready when the flower opens but the stigma takes a few days to be ready to accept the pollen.
Select your parents.
Gently remove the bottom 3 petals.
You may have to gently bend back the remaining petals to emasculate the flower using a fine tipped pair of tweezers.
After 2 or 3 days, remove several filaments and anthers from the other parent using a fine tipped pair of tweezers and gently rum the pollen on the end of the stigma being especially careful not to damage it.
This is what you will see several weeks later, if you were successful.
As the pod matures, if you watch very carefully, you will see the distal end begin to splay open. At this point you can remove it and gather the seed or place something over the pod to catch the seed. If you don't, you won't have any seed as they will fall out of the pod.
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