Hi all,
just to help with some IDing, here are a few of my named Gynos

Nice Gymnos, wish there was a drool emoticon.

Yeah,
my favourite is the ragonesii - hard to grow but wonderful flowers

I have a bunch of G. ragonesii, seedlings coming along, they are tiny though, are they pretty slow growing? These seedlings are about, from memory around 5 months old, smaller than a match head haha, can't wait to see them grow big. Maybe I will consider grafting a few.

Those G. baldianum are very tall, mine is more globbose, I wonder why? They certainly don't look etiolated, far from it, they look nice and healthy.

mmmmmmmmmmmm ragonesii, i still havent got that one.

Nice stuff calycium.

When mine decide to actually do a bit of growing, there will be atleast one with your name on it. Actually you came to mind when I bought the seed PD.

Yeah,
I have some ragonessi that are about 6 months old and they are less than match head size. I am hoping that they will shoot over next season, but I think it will a four year job before I can let go of them.

Is it true that all gymnos are the quickest and easiest to get to flower?

Yours are awesome. I love the colours of the horstii - I think I will hunt some of them out.

I look forward to many more gymnos soon

Gymnos flower really easily with a lot of light, but generally you need two to be flowering at the same time to cross pollinate them, even save the pollen from one until the other flowers.
Although, having said that - the horstii has never flowered yet and the damsii flowers all the time.

Managed to score a couple of hortsii today

One had several wee pups on it to. So I will see how they go. Would love to see if they flower

Chin chin (pun)

Hi Slim,
put a pic on... Never seen a horstii with pups

oh... haha... I took all the pups off HAHAHA

I will see if there's another...

Oh NO!!! how embarrassing... it's been a long day and I am tired....

It wasn't a hortsii at all it was a damsii

HAHAHA!!

Please forgive me - I picked it up because it looked so similar - but on closer inspection they're rather not similar!

I am so sorry for the confusion and the excitement - the damsii still has pups, I can post a photo of that if you want... It has two small ones on it and one of the free ones i have taken a photo of as well.

Here's one of the babies...




Please don't tell me I am wrong about the species as I got it off a label

and here it is with a couple of it's babies hanging on...