If the plant is out of the tropics you may not only provide heating during most of the year but also good artificial light. For keeping tropical in subtropical climates one must have in mind the cost of the energy. Energy is not cheap and a Dyckia is not happy just with heating only. A Dyckia needs light, strong good light for at least 12 hours a day. The required lamps are costy and consume a lot of energy. If you save energy with Dyckias....hummmm it won´t work!
Some special lamps also produces heat. If the plant is kept on the edge of freezing it will never show off its beauty.
We have no White Bear in Rio de Janeiro. Polar bears are better seeing on TV hunting the poor leopard seal. TVs seta are fantastic today. For keeping a Polar bear in a Zoo anywhere in the globe this must be well equiped.
I do not even think of keeping a crocus or a dafodil or a tulip here in Joinville. Our Sun and our heat would fry them all on the very first hour of the very first Summer day.
Happy looking Dyckias are the result of well kept ones.
You may keep Dyckias even in Antartica but it would be such a waste of energy one would never wonder.
We can keep a group of a White bears in Manaus right in the heart of the Amazon jungle where The Negro and The Amazon Rivers meet. It would require a lot of special devices and many lots of money plus an absolutely crazy mind...plus a breeding program of those fatty and juicy leopard seals.
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