Winter
test 2003: Individual participant card
Nr. 059
Valentin Posea
Romania
~ Bucharest
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CACTUS ART
NURSERY
Cultivation and Mail Sale
of Cacti and Succulents. |
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| View from my balcony |
Window for cacti |
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I live in Bucharest, in a block of
flats, at sixth floor, and all my cacti are staying in two balconies
and in the windows. I know these are not the ideal conditions to
make the test. I do not know if you will accept me to take part of
the winter test but, if it is possible, I like to do it.
My cacti collection is not so big. Around 300 of species, about 30%
grown up from seed. Only few of them are hardy winter cacti (Echinocereus
Triglochidiatus v mojavensis f inermis RP105 - MG 277.682,
Echinocereus viridiflorus DJF713.1 - MG 282.07, Escobaria (Neobesseya)
Missouriensis - MG 383.18, Opuntia Fragilis and Opuntia Arenaria). Till now only the two Opuntias and Escobaria were outside during the
winter. The others I considered too small. Probably, this year I
will let also an Echinocereus viridiflorus outside. I have only one
Echinocereus Triglochidiatus v mojavensis f inermis and I'm afraid
for it. I do not know how this winter will be but, usually, the
temperature get down till -12 Celsius degrees and sometimes may
reach, during the night, -20 in the open place. In my open balcony
the temperature may get down, during the coldest nights, till -17, I
think. In the summer the air temperature, in the shadow, may
reach 40 Celsius degrees. In the springtime and in the autumn there
are possible cold rains, sometime during a couple of days. |
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| Cacti outside of an other window |
inside my closed balcony |
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| Inside my closed balcony in April |
View from my cacti window |
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| Ariocarpus kotschoubeanus var.
macdowellii |
Aztekium hintonii |
| The grafting cacti: The
seeds were sown on Apr.28-03. The grafts were made on June 28-03. Az. Hintonii was 1.5mm diameter but only one of four grafts was successfully. |
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The winter test plants in theyr new home: |
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October 2003 I send you as attachment a photo with the three
cacti reppoted. Two of them shall stay overwinter in this place
together with Neobesseya Misouriensis, Echinocereus Viridiflorus and
some Sempervivum. I'll send you another photo when the snow will come.
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January
09 2003 Dear Valentino, Please find here attached three photos with
the winter test cacti immediately after a snowstorm (first is through
the windowpane just during the storm). The storm is gone and the
temperatures get down in Bucharest till –15 C degrees (in front of my
window the minim was –9 C degrees). The cacti are OK. |
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March 04
2004 The winter test plants are OK. Those from outside are a little
smaller now but in good condition. No bud on Sclerocactus but
Pediocactus seems to have something like a bud and a well-formed bud on
Pediocactus from inside. |
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May 23 2004 I send you, here attached the last pictures with the
winter test cacti. The "Pedio" from outside had three flowers beginning
with 24 April. The other, from inside, didn't have flower till now. I
put it outside in 15 April together with a lot of other cacti. It seemed
to me that this Pedio, from inside, had a bud in February but I was wrong. The
last picture is made today on the cacti that was inside during the
winter. The buds can be well observed. I will send you another picture when
it will be in bloom. I think that, during the winter, in my balcony, the
temperature was too high. Indeed, when the sun was shinning, the
temperature was going up to 25C and in the night never get down under
5C. Best regard |
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