Winter
test 2003: Individual participant card
Nr. 005 Stefan Spang
SWEDEN ~
Borlange (250 km north of Stockholm)
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CACTUS ART
NURSERY
Cultivation and Mail Sale
of Cacti and Succulents. |
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 my town from a webcam |
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| My name is Stefan and i live in sweden, about 800km up in the
country. Our town is Lat. 60,3 °N,
Long. 15,3 °E, 170 m over sea level. We usually get snow from
October to April and frost nights normally from late sep to
early June. Some years min temp is down to -35 and warmest in
summer is abit over + 30. I'm also going to try and keep some
different Opuntia in the unheated greenhouse this winter. I'm
currently building up my collection which now contains ca: 125
different Cactus, Aloe and Agave + i have more than 500 hundred
7 months |
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 my greenhouse |
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 some of my cacti
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test plants in their new home |
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August 09 2003:...I
repotted them the same day as the package arrived, they were a bit
dehydrated so the Opuntia pads couldn't handle the weight of the sclero
and Pedio. But after a few days they are now looking strong again. Think
the package was on the way for 5 days.... |
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A picture of the plants along with one of my Ferrocactuses
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August 12 2004 One year later....Hello Valentino. I want to
let you know both the cactuses that was in a cold greenhouse survived
the winter ok, no flowers this year though. We had a long and cold
spring as well. Unfortunately the one Pedio that was outside, with
rain protection died, it looked more like it was the Opuntia graft that
died first, but I'm not sure. Anyway, i have both the surviving plants
permanently planted in my new greenhouse for the coming winter, were I made a hardy bed for
a lot of species to try, last winter i had several
Opuntia species in the cold house including the Compressa i bought from
you that survived. The temperature low was
-25°
C.
Thanks again for letting me participate! |
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