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.
