Baja_Costero said:The first couple of times the plant flowers, there's just a few scattered cyathia. Later on it should bloom in abundance, like this:
You both have your plants in fairly small pots by my standards. The plant has the potential to get big, if you let it. My final pot size here on the patio is 12".
Not sure why the quote didn't work. But Yeah it is going to get a new much wider pot very soon! It used to be so little that I treated it like my others as far as putting goes. Just didn't want to do it while it was in dormancy and then still adjusting to the new environment. But soon I will and hopefully it will take off.
Mine is actually planted in I think 100% lava. It was an experiememt to see how esculenta would do in just aggregate and it was a success because at the time I hadn't switched the desert house from overhead misters to all drip lines, and didn't want to rot the roots.
I got to tell you setting up and entire desert house into an automated drip line system was the best watering system I ever put together, everything was in super fast draining soil with water getting delivered directly into the pots for short intervals but at a higher frequency and I got very steady faster growth on all my plants. And I stopped getting fungal issues from too high of humidity
