quinaria and papyracea
listen y’all. i’m used to slow-growing plants. i’ve raised mesembs and astrophytum from seed to adult.
these guys are *orders of magnitude* slower. for months they were barely visible green specks. they seem quite happy now and have gotten much larger, an exciting second stem on the quinaria, but the scale of these photos is ridiculous. each of those pebbles is a millimeter. it took 10 tries to get clear close-ups
by Novel_Lie5519
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Yeah, on my second batch of A. quineria. They grow so damn slow. I now have them in a pretty peaty mixture and they did much better than my first batch as far as speed. But they have long whip-like leaves.
They need quite a bit of heat to get their metabolism kicking. Are you keeping them on a heat mat or somewhere warm enough for them to do more than stagnate?