My name is Martin Stofanko and I have been growing cacti since 1990. I started with a few little Echinopsis like everybody, and today I have my collection in an unheated glasshouse 4x4 m about 30 km apart from the city where I live. During those 10 years I was interested in collecting different goups of cacti. Till 1996 my collection consist mailnly of the genus Echinocactus, Ferocactus, Lobivia, Mammillaria and Gymnocalycium. Then I have bought some Rebutia plants which are todayan excellent decoration of my balcony at home. In the glasshouse which was build in 1998 I have concentrated many frosthardy Opuntias and then I realized to grow hardy cacti. I have made some orders of seeds of hardy cacti from Czech Republic and now I grow many plants of Pediocactus, Sclerocactus, Echinomastus, Ancistrocactus and Glandulicactus. I have mainly good experience with these hard to grow species. I think that when the seed sprout once there is no problem to grow it. Of course not on its own roots. I do not prefer grafting a feww days old seedlings on Pereskiopsis. I have better succes whwn I graft 2-3 months old seedlings on Echinopsis and usualy during the same year graft them on frost hardy Opuntia. It is not problem to see flowers the next year. I do not have access to scan images of my cacti yet, but I am trying to place them to this website soon.

Today (spring 2000) flower in my collection next species:

Echinomastus warnockii, mapimiensis

Pediocactus knowltonii, peeblesianus var. fickeisenii

Sclerocactus pygmaeus, glaucus "franklinii", gradyi