Hit & Miss

I have been pretty diligent lately, spending more time at the balcony taking care of the plants and watering a lot more since it has been really hot. 

Monkey pitcher is now sharing the pot with a rogue fern.

Alor Vera from Spain, succulent from Santorini are doing pretty well after much care and fertilizing. 

Bentong ginger isn't doing well - it doesn't need as much water that I thought it'd be. 

My pot of random succulents are looking better. A lot had died as you can see and I've started to fertilize them. See those fertilizers? They stink like chicken poo. 

More basil seedlings popped out on the mint pot. 

Transplanted the hydrangea to a bigger pot with Miracle-Gro soil that used to house the miniature gardenia. Oh the gardenia died after almost week of transplant. 

Desert rose flowering again!

Okra plants are still producing - this time shooting out from the leaves too. 

Okra container is sharing with a single shallot that grew shoot. Those seedlings in the egg box are basil seedlings for my colleague.

Sowed some Japanese kale seeds and they have sprouted the next day. It's sharing container with white turnip (free seeds from the usual site I bought my seeds).

Wild strawberries are growing pretty slow. I have made a mistake by planting them too deep covering the crown. 

The rest of baby Chinese kales that I grew the last time. 

Those aren't evening primrose, they are mints actually. 

My chives are so small! 

Supermarket lemon seedling!

Long Time No See

It has been ages since the last post. I will be frank, the balcony garden has been neglected, borderline abandoned. I lost my interest in plumeria seeing that I am not able to provide the best environment for them. Same goes to growing edibles. I just don't have the best I'm somewhat leaning towards to succulents. You will see new additions later in the post.
Today I spent half an hour clearing things up.

Do you see a baby?

Dwarf gardenia has been in a not so good condition too.

Bali Hai Gold grew a second inflo whilst the first one died back. Kauka Wilder is blooming too.

Cordyline grew too tall so I cut it down and it grew three new shoots. Fourth one is starting to grow too.

My mini succulent bowls didn't really work out as I overwatered (as usual) so I transferred them.

Trimmed the desert rose and am propagating these for my dad.

My boyfriend's cactus bowl from his office. Only one survived. The small succulent plant was a stowaway from one of the succulents I bought recently.

The mint almost died so I chopped everything off. Good to see that worked out fine.

Harvested my ginger.

They are pretty thin, I wonder if it was my minimal effort in fertilizing. 

I harvested them because I'm planting a new variety - Bentong ginger. I am somewhat sceptical when I bought from the morning market today. They don't quite look the same from the one I bought from supermarket. Did I just get conned?? 

OK! Let's move on to the new additions!

Not really for my balcony garden, these two are for the plant wall for the other apartment. I have about almost 10 empty stations. Many have died.

New succulents! Let's use movement of a clock direction. 

I lost 2 succulents that I brought back from Australia, only one survived and they are growing very slowly at 6 o'clock. Succulents at from 9 - 1 o'clock aren't new. They were from the succulent bowls. The weird-looking succulent between 6-9 o'clock is quite rare and belongs to my sister, it's called Lithops and I'm quite grossed out by it because it looks like a dissected brain. This cost RM39 and I actually lost a layer of leaves from overwatering again. I have just transferred it to this bigger pot to have better draining. I'm taking care of it on my sister's behalf because she isn't confident in keeping it alive.

The succulents in the middle and at 3 o'clock are new! Haven't figure out what variety yet.

 Originally wanted to buy more of this for the plant wall but it's just too expensive so it's gonna stay here. Don't know what to do with it yet.

Sowed some seeds from supermarket lemons. Will they fruit without grafting though? I also sowed the remaining Meyer Lemon seeds I bought from Sydney and they didn't germinated either. Really crappy seeds. 

Bought this packet from the supermarket in my office building. Cost about over RM20. Rather expensive but I was curious. They have other varieties too but carrots was the best option for me. 

3 of maybe 8 seeds germinated but I killed them by not watering them? Heh.

Could This Be???

One of my magnolia cuttings I bought from Sydney seems to be starting to form nodes??? Oh my god!

There's another cutting seems to just started to split and form those nodes. Some of the cuttings were rotting so I cut them and moved them to a shorter vase.

I will be giving one of my mother of thousands seedlings away to my colleague. She has tried keeping a succulent but it died within months. Sad.

Overdue Update

 Basil has started to seed.

 Kaffir limes, onion, rosemary and mother of thousands.

The magnolia seeds I bought from Sydney turned out not to be magnolia. WTF

Aussie Succulents are growing super well! Yay~ 

of Portulaca, Succulents and Others

A colleague at work ordered a bunch of portulaca cuttings but they were left in the parcel over the weekend, when she got back to work on Monday, the cuttings were affected. She split the cuttings with me to salvage the cuttings seeing that I'm developing a greener thumb.

Another colleague has a pot at work so we planted some and left the pot at the windowsill.

The ones I brought home, I stuck them into various pots.

Back to my own balcony garden:

The magnolia cuttings are growing and coming out from dormancy.

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 All 3 of the magnolia seeds I sowed germinated. I transplanted the biggest to the pot.

Nancy the hydrangea survived after a scare.

The adenium is flowering again.

Baby mother of thousands growing their own babies already.

Mexican Stonecrop.

The most common succulent: Echeveria.

Bluebean.

The vertical garden at the apartment didn't look good at all, spent an hour fixing it. Will need to buy more plants soon. Many died.