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Chris43
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 |  Subject: Mammillaria lenta  Sun Jul 11, 2010 5:36 pm | |
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jfabiao
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Age : 60
Location : Lisbon, Portugal
Registration date : 2010-05-25
| | Subject: Re: Mammillaria lenta Tue Jul 13, 2010 2:16 pm | |
| That's a wonderfull plant, Chris. How old is it? | |
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Chris43
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| | Subject: Re: Mammillaria lenta Tue Jul 13, 2010 8:18 pm | |
| I have no idea how old, Fabio, I've been its custodian for 5 years, since when it has added 4 heads, and it was sold by Panarotto in Italy. I thought it an extravagance when I bought it, as the postage was quite expensivet, but it has repaid me with its flowers and its growth.
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maurillio
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Age : 70
Location : Modena - Italia
Registration date : 2009-12-20
| | Subject: Re: Mammillaria lenta Tue Jul 13, 2010 9:09 pm | |
| in carlo zanovello greenhose today i have ph. this one. is sister of your plant of panarotto... sowed together in 1997. this is n.104 I N C R E D I B I L E !!!!!!!!! the seeds comes from viesca - coahuila - mexico  | |
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jfabiao
Number of posts : 539
Age : 60
Location : Lisbon, Portugal
Registration date : 2010-05-25
| | Subject: Re: Mammillaria lenta Wed Jul 14, 2010 10:18 am | |
| That would make it 13 years old. I have a small plant, maybe 3cm in diameter, that I bought from Rysavy Kaktusy two years ago. It has grown very little since then (2009 was an awfull year for me due to a persistent problem with RSM), making it true to its name (lenta means "slow" in portuguese and I guess in latin too). Things are looking better this year and I can't wait for my plant to put on some girth and to flower | |
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Chris43
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Number of posts : 1872
Age : 81
Location : Chinnor, UK
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| | Subject: Re: Mammillaria lenta Sat Jul 17, 2010 11:05 am | |
| I have a couple of other lenta plants, much smaller, and really much slower in growing as well. I don't know if it is true, but from what you say, and from what I have observed, one might hypothesize that they are slow up to a certain size and then behave more normally.
Does anyone else have any observations?
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| | Subject: This M.lenta has been in my collection for about 30 years growing steadily from a single head. It flowers well, producing 3-4 good flushes every year. This picture was taken about 5 years ago, since then it's moved on to a 250mm bowl. Mon Jul 19, 2010 9:47 am | |
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jfabiao
Number of posts : 539
Age : 60
Location : Lisbon, Portugal
Registration date : 2010-05-25
| | Subject: Re: Mammillaria lenta Mon Jul 19, 2010 10:01 am | |
| What a beauty, Phil. Maybe my single-headed plant will look like this in 25 years, or so (I better find myself a comfy chair...  ) | |
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| | Subject: Re: Mammillaria lenta Fri Aug 06, 2010 1:21 am | |
|  Oops ... I sowed last year with little success ... I'll have to inscribe the seedlings on inheritance (with the "comfy chair ")... Beautiful plants. Congratulations to all the happy owners  |
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