Sun, welcome to my balcony!

I know, I had to work more and talk less! A promise is a promise, and one has to work on it to achieve the goal! Although there are some projects and promises I can not fulfill for different reasons, this one I would not like to skip. A promise was given to @nikv to bring an update on how my garden is doing in November. Well, here in Spain, I don't have a real garden. We have a shared one with other people from the building, but it can not be used for our plants. I have my ones on my balcony. Mainly succulents, and one Orchidea, that white one from the cover photo.

The balcony has a good position, because it is sunny during autumn and winter, and it also makes the apartment bright and therefore much more positive. Eternal summer can be felt, although overnight temperatures are colder now. My succulents will be able to enjoy now because they didn't get much sun during the summer, which is another good feature of a balcony positioned like this.

During the summer, I was not here and one friend was in charge to give water to the plants sometimes. I wrote a post on that topic, and when I am seeing it, I see a difference again. The plants have grown, again! ;) Some of them too much, as they were looking for the sun, that was not coming before. So, the Kalanchoe Lucky Bells went CRAZY. Crazy, how tall it is now, and no, no sweet and cute spots on the leaves. No sun either that was on the help with that, but yes, I hope in the next few months it will get it enough so, maybe it will stop to go in height so much and get the details I like on the leaves. What I accidentally did, a month or so ago... I broke one stem ;( But, luckily, they can grow whenever you put it again in the soil. This is exactly what I did, I just put it in another pot and it made some new friends too. Do you think it is happier now? I think it is :)

Crazy tall Lucky Bells

The broken stem made new friends in another pot

The plant I didnt have a name before, Nikv said it can be Graptosedum, so I will stick to that name. So, the Graptosedum is getting another new name too, a giraffe-neck-plant. I can't handle it, I know, you said me it needs more sun, I know, but it didnt get it enough and it grew this super long neck... I don't want to cut it or damage it, so it looks like this now, probably until it breaks by itself as it is becoming heavy. When (and if it happens) I will plant it again, in another pot.

Big surprise! A positive one, of course!! Haworthia Cooperi decided to live ;) I was indeed worried when I came back from my two months-long vacations that it would not survive. It was in a poor condition, you can check it here and compare it to does it look like now. I am happy it made well and still can be a pair to Echeveria Runyonii in those clay pots. Aren't they cute? :) Even we can see how much all the plant I got from Ewkaw have grown from April, when she sent me them. What a difference. They were all babies.

These small plats are cuttings from a big one, yes, I forgot the name of that one. The big one started to dry a bit, actually, I think I kind of plague attacked it, and I rescued some small stems. It is the same as you see in my second photo in today's post, they are also saved parts of that big one that decided to leave me. RIP. So, not an official plant killer, as I saved some parts of it, or? Do I enter the club?

Another one without a name, I know it is just so common and known by many, but the name, the name... Let us call it mug-plant, as I made its new house from an old mug. It is doing well, I had this small one living in the shade of the big Echeveria pulvinata for a year, or so. Now I gave it independence, I am just thinking maybe it was doing well in the shade too. I hope I didn't make a mistake with planting it apart.

The next one is not doing so well. The leaves look wilted, I think it lacked a little more water. But maybe that's not all. We will see in a couple of days because now I have watered it nicely with a lot of water. I hope it was just that, the lack of water that made it look so sad. Come on plant, you can do it, survive!

The plant I am proud of the most is this Echeveria pulvinata, the Ruby Blush! It is doing so well, a happy-looking one! And I am happy too with it. The aloe vera, which is not so great now will not be shown, as the sticky black dots are present again. It means I am entering into a war with the evil and boring bugs that are coming back over and over again. Tough work but will have to do all the steps that usually help.

So here it is, the November update of my plants. They have grown, we see some even too much, and some of them are becoming giraffes. I dont know if it is possible to have wild animals in this building I am living in, but I hope that the neighbors will not be bothered with it :)
I also hope that @ludmila.kyriakou will show her update, now when she is back from her vacation!

P.S. The Elmo babies are doing well too, even they have grown a little bit. Still, no signs that any flower would come in near future.