Love the splendens most of all, and I don't have one!

And your third from the bottom, Howard. I know it may be pointless to ask for ID but I'm coveting one like that too.

Me too, Pagan! Ive got a few others, but this white clone is another class!

Howard's third from bottom is H. 'Mirror Ball'

Haworthia Mirror Ball.

Haworthia zantneriana

Butting in again with more silly questions:

When you all sow haw seeds, is fungicide a good idea? How long do you all keep the seedlings covered..? Do you just leave the seedlings atop the soil and then put some sand over?

I had Mirror Ball in my STC list and kept missing it. What happened that you have so many, Matthew---did you trip over a troll mound of it or something!

Christina: prophylactic use of fungicide is not a good idea, I am told; they supposedly inhibit germination. I didn't bother with it since I generally don't bother with additional steps unless absolutely, blindingly necessary (for example, actually sowing the seeds). I left the seeds on top of the substrate I used (akadama fines, in this case) and put the whole pot in a zip bag. Didn't even sterilize. The dots were out in two weeks and the pot is out of the bag and out in the yard in the shade. If they die, oh well. Wimps.

Gerhard Marx is our friend.

Okay, one pic....Renny calls this one "Tsuru Pika" which she describes as "XXL grower". It made me laugh so I got one. lol Not really presentable yet. Her specimen is easily three times the size of this offset.

Okay, two pics....someone asked for a wimii earlier? This one is a cross between a beueri as one parent and a complex splendens-picta-wimii hybrid:

Pagan I love the little teeth on "Tsuru Pika".

I finally got around to take some pictures of a few of the hawthies with my macro lens and "real" camera... Yay.

renny's...

picta

My very first Haworthia, & one of my favorites... had her ~2 years now. Tag just said cooperi.

I am excited for this Cymbiformes variagted pup, it looks like it has a lot more variegation than the mom. I keep seeing "stable variegation" mentioned, what does that refer to?

I would love to take a trip to South Africa and visit Sheilam and other places like Mr. Marx. It would be even more fun, if several wonderful people from here were along to enjoy!

Thanks Pagan, I always like to hear others experiences. I like your way of sowing! Sounds like what I would do, but I am only receiving about 10 seeds so I think chance of failure will be a lot higher for me...!
How are the seedlings now? Which ones are wimps? :)

I'll join you Howard :-)

Gabby - Just curious which lens you've gone to for macro?

Going to South Africa would be fantastic. I would bring home so many plants with me. Haworthia and so many others!

Matthew - Great share of photos! I like the look of that H. atrofusca.

I'd go. But I'd want hikes in the Cape. Am I the only one wondering about food lol

Seeing mesembs in situ! Bring home Lithops! Yesssss.

We probably won't be able to find these things in habitat. They'd be growing mostly underground! We'll need a goat or something, like a truffles pig or whatever you call them.

Lens is a EFS 60mm, I'm loving it so far but it's my first lens beyond an iPhone so I don't have much to compare it to.

Cool! Congrats on the new lens. New gear is always fun. =)

I had to look that one up. It's a Canon! No wonder it didn't ring a bell. I don't think I've even touched a Canon SLR.

I like the atrofusca as well. It's one of those haworthias that supposedly you have to dig out to see. Makes me wonder how far I can push these things in cultivation to encourage that kind of growth. Initially I thought of huge containers and communal planting. But I lost my original rationale lol

Pagan - I'm also a Nikon shooter. But I do have a Canon camera as well, haha.

Howard - What was the first plant you had posted? Emelyae major JDV 95/23? Those truncata are beautiful, especially the one in the 6th photo. And what is the venusta hybrid? It looks nice and big!

Haworthia mutica silviana (81280)

Haworthia herbacea MBB6737 Mowers

Kevin, that Haworthia mutica silviana (81280) looks pretty cool.I'm totally partial to retuse haworthias, obviously.

I got a hand-me-down Nikon kit from my brother when I was in high school so that pretty much sealed it for me. By the time I could afford to buy my own kit, I had this whole bag of Nikon lenses already lol

Christina! Here are my seedlings today. I'll take better photos if the sun ever shows up this weekend.

I think this is my only one that I haven't posted earlier, I think in the first haw thread. This is a common one, but I didn't have one until now and I'd never seen one this tiny.

Haworthia reinwardtii

Rare shmare. That reinwardtii of yours is beautiful, Meg. It is rare to see it so plump and happy as they tend to get neglected.

"Head to the nursery"...hehe. More ominous words were never spoken.

Ominous??? I'd say wonderful! I've been calling a local nursery to see if their succulent shipment is in yet.... they know my voice now..

And I agree with rare schmare...all that matters is if you like it!

Got this howerthia id?

It stay close, is this normal?

The springtime sun adds some color to H. Multics 'Silviana'.

The sun is helping many plants look better.

Haworthia cv Maughamutica 81328

Haworthia fusca 81012

Haworthia emelyae x badia.

Haworthia truncata 'Freek'

ycloh, I don't know what it is but it's very interesting! Nil has a few haworthia species with the same habit (they're closed up like that, sometimes so tightly they look like cacti blobs).

Nice Freek, doc.

Pagan, so exciting! Makes me even more impatient for my seeds to arrive. What kind of seeds? Are you going to make any attempt to cajole the other half of seeds?

Christina, what seeds are you expecting and from where.... Ken?

Not to steal anyone's thunder but here are some new ones for me.

And some older ones.

Yes, from Ken! buying just 7 seeds was probably not a good start but I really wanted to try it out while trying to keep the spending down.
bayeri x blue haze is what I got

Cajole? You mean, actually expend effort? Hi, have you met me? lol

Nah. I'll deal with whatever comes up for as long as they'll survive with tolerable amounts of effort. I don't even know what to do with these things if they survive long enough. There's definitely a Haworthia sylviae x emelyae in your futures, everyone.

Me.... I would love one, please.

I'm getting Haworthia picta 'Robert' x picta 'Teresa', Haworthia 'Eva' x obtusa Giant and Haworthia bayeri x 'Blue Haze'. I am really hoping for 100% germination on the first two.

Kevin, sorry I didn't mean to ignore your query about an earlier post. The first one is Haworthia laeta, which is probably a splendens or picta and the vendor has it misnamed. The venusta hybrid is Haworthia Shirayuki-Emaki (80998) and the truncata is Haworthia R2.

@Pagan: Oooh... plant mail?

I should've known better than to ask if you were going to cajole anything LOL! I take the same approach for most of my collection. Let us know how your seedlings do later on. :)

I regretted not purchasing Haworthia picta 'Robert' x picta 'Teresa'... next time maybe. It'll be a miracle if I get all 7 seeds to germinate as a first time sower!

Christina, I don't think success at this has anything to do with being a "first timer" or a seasoned professional. I think the operative here is, "Better lucky than good."

Howard - No problem. =) My 'Maughamutica' (81328) wasn't doing that great for a long time. I'm gone the green route until it's more resilient:

Meg - I've been eyeing a very similar mini reinwardtii many times like yours in the greenhouse. Still resisting! The one I saw turn quite dark green/purple under higher light. Not sure what yours will do but it looks nice.

As for seeds... my newest ones have not germinated yet. But like Howard, I am happy to share ones from last year, haha.

Good point Howard. Lets hope we both hit the jackpot with Ken's seedlings. :)

Nice seedling pictures Kevin! It must be so rewarding to start from seed. I want to try lithops...eventually. And plus, with lithop seeds, you get more bang for the buck, if successful germination (of more than 1 lol)! In my area, a nice one could go for $8+...

My seeds arrive tomorrow!!! Or so I'm told by USPS...

Me in a few days, watching my seeds: The GIF doesn't work on here, but if you've seen this movie... you'll know. :)

Totoro!

Yeah, I tried that. Even tried it with my cat, Hodor. He was not amused.

Kevin, too bad you didn't get more of the venusta-like seedling in the center of the first pic to germinate.... I like that one. The others look like they may have some neat windows.

New stuff! (and I really have to stop now. I'm having to plan adding another shelf to my dry house as it is. Fortunately, I have no more pots.)

Haworthia emelyae var. comptoniana (GM 266) AL

I've been waiting for this one to become available at AL: Haworthia reticulata var. hurlingii

Just returned from a VERY successful (although my wallet says something else) trip to "Haworthia Walhalla", i.e. the nurseries of Ingo Breuer, and Thorsten & Imri: 43 new haworthias....

Pictures of individual plants will follow at some time. Not all in one go, don't worry. The Other Half managed to sneak that red coarctata in in the back on the right.

This was the haworthia section:

Sorry, no other pictures of the nursery. I was in there for nearly 2 hours just choosing, taking pictures would have taken at least another 2 hours. I also skipped the rest of the place (sulcorebutias, aloes, mesembs etc), simply because I didn't wanted to be tempted to buy any more (not this time any way).

Pagan, both are very nice. I like the reticulata very much. Yours looks so much different than mine, but the reason for this is the person from whom I got it may be very wrong with the name.

This is cute little devil!

I came home from the nursery with one Haworthia. I immediately liked the looks of it, but I would imagine that when it goes back to being green eventually, it will resemble a retusa, correct? Meg

Conny only 43!! IB must have some amazing things there.

Congrats on the new additions hope you will share close up pictures soon :)

Meg: Hmm..Right now, its windows are kind of small to be retusa or mutica. In fact, it looks kinda chocolatey. Let's see what happens to it in your care.

Doc, the two plants look nothing alike! Mine is a rooted offset. Maybe your source had it crossed with something else because it did retain some of the dots.

And don't you just love all the turgida types!

Minty: I wondered about that too. Connie has demonstrated remarkable restraint---I was expecting at least a couple of hundred lol

Here are the first 10. And yes: no. 8 and no. 9 are the same variety, I couldn't choose :-)

What are some good sources for Haworthia seeds?

We're all showing our best. Today I am sharing something not so good. A warning that it can happen to anyone not paying attention. It's called sunburn.

Conny, I like the last five the best. They are all nice. Can I send you back and you can buy me some plants? I'll pay for them....

H. bayeri cv. Leaf propagation almost 2 years on

Ooof, that looks serious, Doc. I haven't seen that before. This is
from indoor light straight into sun? I mean, what conditions can do this
to a haworthia? I've scorched some before but never quite that badly.

BTW, Conny! I want #9. These wimiis are something else.

Someone else will have to chime in for you, Michael. I've never
bought haworthia seeds. They take too long to show proof of provenance,
I'm not sure I'll want anyone's seeds unless I know them personally, as
well as their pollinating practice. But Mesa Garden sells some!

And you're one of those people whose haworthias look like dessert! I want that~

It's getting long so let us continue here: