Excellent post and photos.

Phil_SK wrote: ↑Sat Jan 08, 2022 8:57 pm The flower colour, shape and size, plus the appearance of the plant's body all look like a good match for obrepanda to me.

Thanks Phil! I looked at photos found in the web.The body and the spines pattern fits quite well.

I bought that one 30 years ago. The label, which have gone some years ago, said "Mediolobivia famatimensis". With my current knowledge it cannot be true. The flowers indicate, that it can be some Echinopsis hybrid? P.S. Excuse me the landscape instead of portrait presentation of those phot...

Rebutia marsoneri also does not believe in winter in Poland.

Light frost I am positive about. Anything up to -5C I feel confident about (assuming it is not -5C every night for weeks). I am more curious about anything colder than that, especially close to -10C. I feel better :-). But you are right about lower temperatures. Here in Poland night temperatures ar...

I'd like to know the answer to this question too. El48tel and I are still interested in more experiences on hardyness of hardy cacti seedlings! I second this. I just have sown some cacti, mainly Echinocereus and Escobaria, so next autumn they, I hope :-), will be one year old. I wonder, if they wil...

It will be the first winter, so I am not sure how it will work. The setup is similar to that of anders . The cacti will stay on the shelf, covered from the top by another shelf (summer place :-) ) and with shields made from the cell polycarbonate from open sides of balcony. We had heavy rain last fe...

Hi all, Cacti has fascinated me since the mid 80'. I even converted one of my aquariums in a propagator and tried to raise some cacti from seeds, which I had bought in East Germany (in Poland they were hard to obtain at this time). I got a lot of seedlings, unfortunately, I made enough mistakes to k...