Nik

Thank you. I always like to see before and afters...especially if the plants are in 'poor' shape like that Tesselata or 'Iguana' or H.c. var transiens...

My sense is that the Asian breeders favour the darker greens. Dehydrated species here go whiter if they are cymbiformis, or redder if they are cooperis. Some of the species are also quite lime green. It's amazing what Japanese and Taiwanese breeders have done with haworthia - given them a whole new look

Hi there

Is it safe to assume this is a good place to post pictures of my haworthias?

I just discovered this thread and I love all the pics and feedback given. So much to learn from.

I just discovered this little growth on my haw. I assume it's a flower stem (what is the correct term? Fluorescent?) on its way up?

Any suggestion as to what kind of haworthia it is? Ikea is not the best concerning id labels ;)

Hi Belemnite

Yes, that is a flower stalk, aka inflorescence. Your plant is a Haworthia Cooperi

Hi Nik

Thank you. I'll write a label asap.

Here is another "before" for Rina:

Visiting a friend today, he said "someone gave me a cactus for my birthday [in March] and I haven't watered it in months and it's probably dead, please take it". One of those tacky gifty-things that qualify as cruelty to plants, a blackened, desiccated haworthia in a glass globe with broken glass for topdressing hanging in a West-facing window. I said "Ok?" and put it in my backpack and thought "I'll water this one out of sheer curiosity", and "someone ought to shoot the product designer"

I thought it was an attenuata var. radula but it seems to be a minima so if it lives I'll have a kind I don't have.

Despite it's appearance, it is leathery rather than hard and there are some roots that are very much alive. I'm misting the roots for now but I won't be surprised if this one makes a comeback

Thank you Nik. Looking forward to see afters :)

On the topic on plants that need time to look better, I've had this for almost a year and still can't manage to get it to grow very nicely:

Haworthia emelyae

What substrate are you using, Kevin?

36 hours later, this one is good to go. I haven't seen a haw turn around this fast before. Shows how opportunistic they are about taking and using water when they can get it. The crown opened overnight (yesterday) and one day later, the centre has greened up

Viability in the old roots, too. I'm going to plant this one now as is in soil. The roots won't rot indoors in my house - provided that they are kept cool and watered lightly but regularly. It will get a few hours of filtered morning sun

Hello,

I got this Haworthia cuspidata a few weeks ago and it seems like it has three offsets/pups (is there a difference?). This is my first Haworthia and I'm excited to watch it (slowly) grow.

I see it's been very quiet on this thread while I've been very busy with all sorts.

The greenhouse is as good as finished now, and all my plants, including the haworthias, have moved into their new home. Unfortunately, when I was told by the other half I could move them in, for some reason he waited another week with putting up the second half of the shadow cloth. Of course that was just the week we had hot sunny weather, and most of my haws turned dark, a handful even suffered serious sunburn. After the shadow cloth was finally put up, it took 2 weeks for my babies to get their original colour back again. About 20% have lost some or more leaves from that one stressful week, there's a few that are still working on returning to their original colour, and one got so seriously burnt it lost its will to survive and was eventually destroyed by a fast but serious mealy bug attack.

On a positive note, the shipment of 83 haws from France had many real beauties in the lot, and all are doing well. Same for the 7 plants I got from Kambroo/South Africa.

A few weeks ago on a Tuesday, halfway on my way to work, my car decided to turn south into Belgium to go to my favourite Belgian nursery :-) - the nursery is actually nearer to home than my office :-(

Being on my own for once, I had all the time in the world to browse the thousands of haworthia at a quiet pace, and I came home with gorgeous new additions to the collection (not all are shown here):

This nursery really is a paradise! I'm planning another visit later this month :-)

Next order from Taiwan arriving on Track 9... Over 350 plants!!!!!

Nice plants, Conny. Wish there were growers/nurseries locally or at least reasonable driving distance for me.

Omg Howard, 350 in one lot? I thought I had lost my marbles...

LoL. Conny, they aren't all mine.

Wow, Conny! I wish I had some amazing haworthia places like that to visit! :) How many total do you have now?

About 550 Katherine :-)

And with the new greenhouse, I have plenty of room for more, yay

A new cuspidata I got 10 days ago when I had a fun local outing with Dinie:

That was fun, Conny. You know all the good places! I am getting a new window *plus window sill* in the kitchen. Good light, no direct sun there, so I also bought a few more haws. Now wait for my hobby supplies to arrive.

550!?!! :) Wow, how do you manage them all? That's impressive! Your cuspidata is gorgeous. All of my haworthia seem deflate and struggle for long periods of time after repotting. However, several are finally bouncing back a little bit. I'm hoping new growth will be much plumper. My cuspidata is also making a comeback but certainly no where near as good looking as yours! :)

Connie, good to hear an update :), do share greenhouse pictures when you have a chance! Also that cuspidata with those sunset colors is really beautiful !!

Katherine: thanks. The good thing about Haworthias is that they don't need that much care. But I do check on them most days though, morning and evening! Most time goes to just admiring them, LOL.

I'm in a colder zone than you are, but I find that with the grit-only mix I use they never seem to suffer from repotting.

Plantspace: thanks. I've just posted an update on the greenhouse here.

Conny, I just took a look at your greenhouse post, that looks amazing! Really well done. :)

Thanks Katherine, I will pass that on tonight to the other half tonight :-)

Taiwan plants arrived!!!

Howard

Nice! and different - can't blame you (and others) for wanting them.

Howard, that maughanii is to die for!

What are the other 347?

Conny, some are going to Kevin and Pagan. Hope she is OK as she hasn't been responding to me. Most (350+) are going to my dear friend who has a commercial greenhouse.

Here are some of mine !

Sadly a snail (i think!) took huge chunks out of quite a few of them :(

Damn, cactusandrain, find that snail and send it to it's maker! Eating your truncata like that! Almost looks like a rodent was there although I have seen them trash agaves, so it is entirely possible that is is a snails handiwork

Just received an updated list of Haws from Taiwan. Needless to say, I have the order ready to go. Should be here before the snow flies. I'd share the list but I don't think it's allowed to post it here.

Anyone interested in seeing what is available or just wanting to see some nice plants, PM me.

My new Haws from the ELK convention in Belgium this weekend.

When the doors finally opened I pushed everyone out of the way (not literally) to get to RSA Succulents/François Hoes (I had to go by his picture on FB lol). As mentioned in another I spent 80% of my ELK budget with him in under half an hour...

H. Bayeri x Springbokvlakensis (2 plants in 1 pot, repotted separately) => if I'd been allowed to buy only ONE plant, it would have been this one, as I've had a bayeri on top of my list for a longggg time...

H. Bayeri Uniondale (2 plants in 1 pot, repotted separately)

H. Springbokvlakensis x Bayeri

H. Bayeri De Rust

H. Springbokvlakensis

H. Springbokvlakensis

Nice choices. Did you see Robert.

H. Truncata variegata

H. Emelyae Major Muiskraal

H. Silver Bug x Emelyae Major

H. (Korizato x Kegazato) x Keganii

H. Keganii x Chocoletto

H. Kegazato x Keganii

H. Silver Bug x (truncata x maughanii)

H. Parksiana DD farm

H. cv 'Luft'

H. cv 'Alligator Skin'

H. Atrofusca x Badia

H. Silver Bug F2 (2 plants in 1 pot, repotted separately)

H. Esterhuizenii W. Albertina

H. Bev's Wonder cv 'Starship'

And from other sellers:

H. cv 'Kihukigasa

H. cooperi variegata

And an attenuata, just for the colours

I looked but didn't see Robert, Howard. Not whilst waiting for the doors to open anyway, and after that I was too busy browsing everything on offer :-)

I am sooooo happy fall is here. I watered all my Haws and no one has died :D, i got a lot of new stuff this summer and nothing's been able to grow with the heat.

Renny forgot one of my orders for a little bit and I got this one free, tots worth the extra wait.

Any ideas on lineage?

Finally got a maughanii! Yay.

Successfully rooted this offset :) grow baby grow.

I've been trying my hand at propagating Haworthias by leaf cuttings, and I've had some moderate success. Did a few mistakes and learned not to rot the leaves with too much water... they do take a long time to shoot roots or leaves and sometimes they just wither and die after a long time of just sitting there, before they are able to get anything going. I let them dry for a couple of weeks and then I start misting them occasionally on top of a thin layer of coarse sand that I try to keep just a bit moist at the bottom. I was wondering if anyone here is able to explain a better way to do this, and especially how to get them to produce roots or leaves sooner. Because after that, survival is much much easier.

I have only tried prop with "leaves" a few times so far but they all rooted. I put them in straight pumice, give a good watering frequently but make sure they go a few days being completely dry. It's like they are easy to rot without roots, but at the same time it doesn't seem they can form a good root system without being watered!

Just showing off one pot of my seedlings that are starting to properly look like haws :-)

Looking great, Conny! The wait is finally over!

I actually sowed some Haworthia seed late last week, and I noticed yesterday that they are already starting to come up! Much faster than I expected. Now if only I can keep them alive....

I would post pictures, but there is really nothing to see right now :)

It's so much fun, isn't it!! First seeing them germinate, then slowly developing into miniature plants, they're soooo cute. Plus, with the seeds that were a result of natural pollination, it's exciting to see what the result will be.

These were sowed in April by the way...

I usually have germination result anywhere from 3 days to 4 or 6 weeks max, but I have 3 seeds from hand pollination that I sowed at the beginning of June, but still nada... I'm not prepared to give up on them yet though ;-)

We need some new pictures!

Haworthia maughanii Bayyko

Haworthia Marin variegata

Haworthia sp

Haworthia Yuki Guni

Haworthia Yuki Geshiki

Have we lost interest in Haworthia? I know I haven't. Here are my most recent arrivals from Taiwan.

I haven't! All of yours look great! I definitely haven't lost interest. In fact I have several haworthia questions brewing that I'll ask when I finally get my thoughts and pictures ready! :)

That is a nice selection bikerdoc! I am anticipating my next plant "binge" soon, I've already made space.

Here's a few window photos under the porch light.

I think some of my home-made 'Anna Cocoza' x rodinii hybrid seedlings are starting to show some variegation :-)

Conny, so exciting. Hope they hold true into more mature plants.

Gawd. These plants are so mind-numbing sometimes. It's going to take a while to scroll up to the last post I saw lol

Time to open Page 6!