Gasteria gracilis variegata

Gasteria gracilis variegated

                                          ID#596

 
 

Additional Information: Purchase at: The Plant Farm. New Bern, NC

 

A cluster of tiny fans in many shades of green, white and yellow.


Form a solid mass cluster so tight that looks like bursting out of the pot. It should be divided often.


Grown exclusively indoors I’ m excited to see the first flower shoot, I have not seeing any in the 3 -4 yrs. I have it.

HEIGHT X SPREAD: under 6 inches PLANT TYPE: Cacti- succulent GROWTH RATE: Moderate in cacti speed. TEXTURE: fine LIGHT: light shade WATER: dry SOIL: well drain, rock/compost 1:1 ratio or cactus soil
As observed in Coastal NC. BLOOMS: Late winter - early spring FRUIT AND SEED: N/A. To propagate, remove one fan like bunch, it will have it’s own roots, place in separate pot and watch it grow. KEY FEATURES: Forms a very tight cluster of fan like leaf arrays, almost stack on top of each other. Variegated: green/white and some yellow.
A year cycle in the life of ...... at Mooring Hitch Plant started in a 2 inch pot and has been divided a couple of times. Each fan-like plant has it’s unique color characteristics. -Easy care, I started to fertilize the cacti plants I have for the first time in fall 2010 when I moved plants to the new Glasshouse. Now one plant has it’s first bloom shoot. - every 2 - 4 weeks fertilize with 20-20-20 liquid.
          Mooring Hitch Gardens       
 

Jan. 2011

June 2012

Flower about to open