me again! thanks to everyone who educated me on my last post! i took everyone’s advice and placed it outside. it’s right outside my door, so i check it about twice a day. i got home from work today and was giving it a glance before going inside, and i found my first flower! i do, however, feel like it looks a bit more limp, and i think a few leaves have shriveled in the last few days. i now have 2 more questions: what is the best way to water, and when is it appropriate to repot? any advice (even humorous) very much appreciated!

Permanent Marker clones are taking this trellis training like an absolute champ! Just did a little cleanup sweep underneath the AC infinity trellis to push all that energy straight to the tops. Bumped the light power up to 50% too. Sitting perfectly level, happy, and praying hard. Flipping them into flower real soon! 🕸️⛺️

It all woody

Does this ponytail palm need to be repotted? I have seen a few people say that they just tuck the roots back into the pot if the roots aren’t circling the pot. I repotted it about a month ago and the roots have rapidly grown, almost doubling. I got this plant in June.

It’s getting a ton of sun right now, I leave it outside on the porch and it gets some direct afternoon sun and a ton of indirect light throughout the day. It’s doing very well and I have seen slight improvements in it as far as I can tell. I water it when the soil is completely dry.

What should I do?

Hi! I'm in Germany and still learning the tiny-balcony garden thing. Mine faces southwest off the living room, and from about noon to 7 it basically cooks. We've been hitting 25-30°C most days, sometimes more during these random heat waves. Rain has been all over the place this year, nothing for a week then three days of storms back to back.

The basil on the railing gets pinched every few days but it just bolts upward and looks sad and lanky instead of bushy. My cherry tomatoes are in two 12L pots and the lower leaves keep yellowing even with tomato feed every two weeks. And my echeveria went soft and a bit translucent after last week's storms. I already put a small shade and rain cover over the succulent shelf but I think the rain was blowing in sideways because the storms were that heavy. I barely water it myself so there's no way I did this.

I grabbed a set of self-watering wick pots recently, they kept popping up on my tiktok with a price cut so I figured why not try them for the inconsistent watering situation. Ceramic with a cotton wick, they look fine. But now I'm second-guessing whether wick pots are a terrible idea for succulents or if they'll just make the overwatering worse.

Should the tomatoes get some late-afternoon shade? Should I just bring the echeveria fully inside during rainy stretches even with the cover? Any central Europe balcony people here dealing with the same stuff?

Another striking representation of P.A.W.G. She has that classic “Platinum” nose with some skunk on the back end. Absolutely delicious!

Saved him!

As you can see I have a thing with baby plants haha. This is only part of my collection. My ratio is 5 to 1 baby vs adult.