The Russian sower can sow without additional lighting and additional heating only from later spring till early summer, because it is short summer and very long winter here. But in this case seedlings have no time for growing, and they are too young to set them at normal rest-period (dormant-period) in winter. Elizarov used plastic water bottles: the bottle was cut across into two parts for convenient work with seeds. The bottom of the bottle is for seeds («the sowing part»), the upper part (with the cap) must close «the sowing part» very tightly. The construction as a whole is hung to window’s top.

Everybody who begins to sow has many different questions about all steps of the cactus germinating process. 5 sowers from russian site www.iplants.ru answered to FAQ about cactuses germination. These are: Anjuta, Pola, Stivi, Severina, irina-bahus. I compiled their answers to find common rules and show that there are many variants of sowing. Everybody can choose convenient and available ones for himself.