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Yes indeed it's right, Daiv. Double isolated with bubble wrap from inside and outside.
Mainly I do use a propane heater and as backup there is an electrical fan heater.
Temperature inside is between 5 to 8°C (41-46F) at night. On day it's somewhat higher.
The third pic is also a puzzle pic. Where are the hotbeds?
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I'll do show you the hotbeds. The plants inside needs light, so I've do remove the snow and opens the windows for fresh air on sunny days.

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Let's have a look inside there are some several
Escobaria, Echinocereus and Opuntia
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inside the other one some several Cylindropuntia and Opuntia
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The lowest temperature inside was -10°C (14F) since December. The plants looks therefor very vital and healthy.
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Nice. What you call a "hot bed", I have heard called a "cold frame". Your term makes more sense to me.

How about a look inside the greenhouse?
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daiv wrote:Nice. What you call a "hot bed", I have heard called a "cold frame". Your term makes more sense to me.
"Cold frame" aways seemed sort of obtuse to me.

Awesome plants and pictures Ralf! TFS.
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A hot bed is different from a cold frame. It is heated (duhh!). Traditionally the heat is provided by a layer of composting material such as manure, in which the plants can then be grown directly. Hence the cold frame is a frame which is not heated.
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After all those years, it finally makes sense!

Now Ian, do you know this because at some point you were wondering about this too?
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Aha, now I'm a little step more clever, thanks iann. :-)
Now in the following I'll use the term "cold frame".
It's a lot of work to correcting my site.
daiv wrote:How about a look inside the greenhouse?
Sure, of course. But I'll do this in another topic.

@TimN
What do you mean with "TFS"? I'm not really good in your language. :-(
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Ralf wrote: What do you mean with "TFS"? I'm not really good in your language. :-(
Short for "Thanks For Sharing".
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Very nice! You've got some plants I wish I could grow outside!
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Why don't you do it? It's also in pots and bowls possible.
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I don't know if this topic is still hot. However, I am a beginner and found a grower in Germany who is specialised on outdoor cacti growing here.
Homepage (in German): http://winter-kaktus.de
I translated the most important facts:
The following cacti can be grown outdoors in Germany (up to -20° Celsius, some of them up to -30° Celsius; 500-700ml rainfall, no rainfall protection):
  • Echinocereus triglochidiatus − coccineus group: (monacanthus, gonacanthus); mojavensis, v. inermis; coccineus, v. paucispinus, v. „minor“.
  • Echinocereus caespitosus − baileyi group: „reichenbachii“, caespitosus, perbellus, baileyi, v. albis­pinus
  • Echinocereus engelmannii − fendleri group: some fendleri-forms and engelmannii v. variegatus
  • Echinocereus x-roetteri, x-lloydii group: x-roetteri, x-lloydii, x-rosei, x-guerneyi, x-octacanthus
  • Escobaria vivipara group: vivipara, neomexicana, arizonica, kaiba­bensis, radiosa
  • Escobaria sneedii − orcuttii group: sneedii, leei, orcuttii, v. königii, v. macraxima, villardii, guadalupensis, sandbergi
  • Escobaria missouriensis group: missouriensis, ssp. caespitosa
  • Pediocactus simpsonii (note that they might need rain shelter)
  • Platyopuntia with big flat branches: engelmannii, phaeacantha, cymochila, compressa, humifusa, erinacea, macrorhiza
  • Opuntia fragilis group: most of them
  • Cylindropuntia imbricata
  • Maihuenia: poeppigii, valentinii, patagonica (note that not all clones are hardy)
I took this information from here: http://winter-kaktus.de/index.php?optio ... Itemid=108
There you can also find some cacti which are less hardy (up to -15° Celsius) at the end of the page.

Note that I did not include the hybrids.

Please excuse me if I didn't write the names properly since I am a beginner and just tried to translate the info from the URL above ;) But maybe someone might find this useful.

I started with a Cylindropuntia imbricata, an Echinocereus cocchineus and some succulents. Let's see if it works...
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PixMe - Read up ALL posts & pics of Ralf's -- he's as good as they come with cold-hardy's in Germany! =D>
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