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Cacti
« on: October 30, 2013, 11:07:20 PM »
I was speaking to a new Ideas Genie Pro user this evening and learned that he has a collection of Cacti.
He told me about this site:-
http://www.llifle.com/

I was quite astounded   8)
I had no idea there were so many Genera and so many varieties.

I had difficulty using the site with IE 10. Seemed OK when I tried again with Google Chrome.

I've invited Laurence to register on the forum ;)

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Re: Cacti
« Reply #1 on: October 31, 2013, 10:53:04 AM »
Connection is ok with Firefox.

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Re: Cacti
« Reply #2 on: October 31, 2013, 11:25:12 AM »
Connection was OK, Eric. It laboured to show details within Genus (as I recall :-\).
When I went back later, it worked with IE :-\ :-\

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Re: Cacti
« Reply #3 on: October 31, 2013, 02:42:58 PM »
Interesting collection indeed George and, as you say, many varieties available.

I'm not a cactus lover, so don't have any to rave about.

However, if Laurence takes up George's invite to join the Forum it would be fascinating to see what his collection comprises.

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Re: Cacti
« Reply #4 on: October 31, 2013, 08:01:47 PM »
The "thorns" are a bit scary on the ones (the few) we've had, but if you can manage to get them to flower they are simply beautiful.
I think I posted a message on the forum years ( ;D) to tell the story of one that had fell under the greenhouse staging and was (obviously) completely uncared for. I noticed the flower and rescued this dried up little plant.
The colours were vibrant and absolutely stunning.
I say rescued, but once I brought it up to the top of the staging and started to "care" for it, I killed it :'(
Hopefully Laurence will give us a few tips :D