My Moon Cactus

I bought a yellow moon cactus almost 12 months ago as I liked its shade of yellow/orange, and thought it would compliment the Mini African Violet that I bought at the same time.

I did noticed straight away that it has a couple of tiny buds in pinkish red colour but didn't thought much about it until several weeks later I noticed the yellow part was turning orange/red in colour!!

I searched online for the cause of the colour change but found no information on it, except that the yellow, orange, pink or red variants in these cactus are actually a mutation from their typical green colour. None of the pages mentioned anything about it changes colour during its life span.

I am a little disappointed that my yellow moon cactus didn't stay yellow. If I wanted an orange moon cactus, I would have bought an orange one in the first place... :(

Anthurium - new but deformed shoots

My Anthurium plants continue to recover from a recent thrips attack and are bringing out new shoots, though a little deformed in shape.

Four new shoots from this bigger plant

Am glad this one brought out a decent sized & shaped leaf! :)

Unfortunately, with my third plant, I had to remove its new shoots as they seemed to be drying out, turning dark and remained curled up (possible signs that there were thrips larvae feeding inside the bud?), while new shoots from other plants had uncurled days ago.

I know the soil is looking a bit dry, but I was trying to be very careful not to overwater them. I have already noticed that there were a few ngats flying around the plants or hanging around the soil surface in the past days or so... hopefully it was just a few and they haven't settled into the soil yet!!

Crocheted Scrunchies/Hairties

I love crocheting! Especially when I can custom make a scrunchy that matches with what I wear! :D

My first crocheted scrunchy

Scrunchy crocheted with 2 separate yarns (pink & silver) held together.

The two scrunchies pictured above were made based on a very simple pattern.

However, with the pink/silver one in particular, I split the pattern into two rounds: sc (single crochet) around the elastic tie for the first round, followed by a round of (8 chains, slip stitch into the top of next sc).

My baby tomato is getting bigger!

It's been 2 weeks since I discovered that a second mini tomato is developing on my tomato plant. It has grown so much in the 2 weeks! :)

I was a little surprised that this one isn't as round as my first one. In fact, this second one is a little pointy at the bottom, looking like a chubby short strawberry shape... Will see how long it will take this one to change colour. The first one took around one month!!

My second mini tomato is getting bigger & bigger!

 

Still no sign of these closed flowers turning into more tomatoes yet...

Normally, from the photos I have seen online, tomato plants usually develop several tomatoes at any one time, but mine only grows one at a time... is it because it is under-nourished?? At most, I feed it with liquid seaweed spray every two weeks or so, but since it is now developing fruit, I haven't been doing so as I didn't want anything to go on the fruit.

Another reason for not simultaneously developing several fruits at a time may be because it is not getting enough sun on my part shade balcony??

Or... was it because a previous powdery mildew attack has stunted its growth?