Garden Journal Challenge - Update for the end of September

Greetings, gardeners and growers! How does your garden grow? Here it is already fall but things are still growing both indoors and out. The picture above are my current legume experiments. One is a pigeon pea, which I cut back to encourage branching, a perennial fuzzy bean, which is about to bloom, and Wang's Red Bean, aka yardlong bean which is still alive and might give a second harvest. (Wang's black bean died after the first harvest, as most beans do.)

Do you know what this is? It's a pea! Once it gets a little bigger I will transplant this one outside since they like cool weather. It is the only survivor out of all the ones I tried to sprout.

Since we're on the subject of legumes, let's look at the ayocote. It is still in bloom! It is really a late bloomer, even though I started it indoors and moved it outside as early as possible.

I think these pods just might have enough time to mature! If they do, it will be the first time! In years past, a few pods did manage to fill out but the first frost would kill the plant before they could harden and dry. Like I said before, if that happens again then I guess ayocotes just aren't cut out for growing in the Midwestern United States. I might go to Mexico early next year so maybe I'll sneak some back to the mother country, where they'll surely do much better and even be perennial.

Remember those cuttings from my mystery citrus tree that I planted? The bigger now has a brand new leaf! How exciting! The one in the smaller pot doesn't show any signs of new growth yet. It's probably still developing its root system and might be a little behind due to the smaller pot drying out faster.

I sprouted a small avocado seed! It's not hard. The trick is to keep the water level at about half the height of the seed. Once it sprouts, keep it at the bottom of the seed.
I'm going to eventually trim the tap root to encourage secondary roots to grow. Maybe I'll be able to keep this plant small.

I think I'm getting the hang of growing an orchid. Ever since I repotted it in hand ground maple bark from my dying tree, it seems to be thriving as opposed to barely surviving. It even has a new growing root (that green thing sticking out of the right side). The roots can photosynthesize as well so it's ok that it's outside of the growing medium. Hopefully it will flower this winter. It is my understanding that they flower when the temperature drops.
Now let's move on the the rest of the plants outdoors.

Our tomatoes did so well this year. We had so many plants but my favorite were the yellow grape tomatoes.

It's a heavy yielder and it's still going. Although they take a little while longer than a similar sized tomato to mature, they are sweeter than the rest.

The second wave of raspberries is gone. But there might be a small third wave coming.

Here are some more winter ants pollinating a flower.

And some immature fruits!

The potato plants still haven't dried out yet so the rivers could probably still grow a little bit. Someone, or rather something, dug one of them up already.

These are survivors from the purple potatoes I grew right before going to Mexico last year and all the container specimens died from the frost. I'm glad to have these back.

This eastern prickly pear cactus is native to my area. They normally go dormant over the winter but I'm afraid of losing it so I will bring it indoors this year and plant it outside next spring.

I don't know what this succulent is but it really bounced back from the brink of dehydration. I had neglected it in my room but when I moved it outside and started watering it regularly it stayed to inflate again and now it's beginning to show some nice red color.
Well that's everything that's new in my gardens. Sorry I missed last month's challenge; I just couldn't catch a break.
Here is a link to the contest:
https://peakd.com/hive-123046/@simplymike/hive-community-garden-journal-challenge-september

Well, that's all, folks!