Panu Mäkinen

Winter test 2003: Individual participant card Nr. 030 Panu Mäkinen Finland ~ Jyväskylä	CACTUS ART NURSERY Cultivation and Mail Sale of Cacti and Succulents.

City: Jyväskylä (in Central Finland)

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E-mail	pamakine@itu.st.jyu.fi

The altitude is about 150 meters above sea level. The temperature lies
between +30 and -35 °C in a normal year. The minimum temperature may be
-37 or even -40 °C in a very hard winter. A cold period may last
for many weeks. The climate is rainy. In the winter we get about
50 - 70 cm of snow to protect the cacti from cold.

Landscape: Ähtäri (a small town close to the Jyväskylä city; the cacti will be planted there)

Collection: Small plants of Echinocereus coccineus, which are one of the most hardy cacti

The test plants in their new home
	August 23 2003:The cacti arrived in good condition . Thank you very much! I repotted them and a photo is attached in this email. I will repot them in separate pots when I take them to the place where they will stay next winter.
Opuntia polyacantha looked in the spring as if it had not survived, but surprisingly it had grown three beautiful pads in August.	August 18 2004 Hi Valentino, I send photos and information on the cacti to you now. Unfortunately Sclerocactus glaucus and two Pediocactus despainii did not survive. I also had two Opuntia polyacantha that I had grown from seed. In the spring they looked as if they had not survived, but yesterday I surprisingly noticed that the other of them had grown three new pads.
	December 31 2003 Cacti have been covered by snow.	Sclerocactus glaucus did not survive. (May 25 2004)

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Winter test 2003: Individual participant card Nr. 030 Panu Mäkinen Finland ~ Jyväskylä

Winter test 2003: Individual participant card
Nr. 030 Panu Mäkinen
Finland ~ Jyväskylä