Great plants, I'm definately looking for more quality Dyckias. I did one cross this year but I need better material before I can cross anything worthwhile.

Hey Bob, I had a Dyckia chocolate do the same thing to me with a bloom out of the center. Don't know what caused it.

Hi Bob,

What a great show! I became hooked by Dyckias just a few months ago and have managed to get my hands on four nice ones so far, so seeing that lot of yours is just inspirational. They are some seriously nice plants that you have there and those silver-white ones are just sensational.

I'd be really interested to find out what sort of lighting conditions you grow yours under. My first purchase was a lovely siver marnier-lapostollei which I promptly overcooked. I let it re-hydrate for a few days after receiving it in the mail then thought "strong light", so I put it in a spot where it received full sun from around 8.30am to midday. This was in late summer and two weeks later the leaves had fluted so much that they had completely closed. I moved it into a shadehouse with 50% shade and it has survived and new growth is just starting to open out, but there is no sign of the older fluted leaves opening out again, so it looks like I've managed to pretty much ruin the really nice form of the plant for quite some time.

The three others that I've bought since then are sitting next to the recovering m-l and look OK so far, but any information you can give me on lighting conditions would be greatly appreciated! I had though that these plants were adapted for strong sun desert conditions, but obviously there is something else happening here.

Cheers, Paul

Great plants Bob. Like I said in another post the whites and silvers are hard to come by in the market place.

Wow, nice job on growing the D. estevesii so well. And upright. That is a beautiful specimen. Great looking plants.
-andy