u/synth_alice

I'm very new to plants and got this juniper to make a bonsai. Since it's sitting in this outdoors balcony it seems that some little branches are greying out, is the poor thing ok?

I measure humidity with a two prong meter and water when it goes down to 2-3 out of 10, and it's now sitting at about 5, so I'd assume it's ok in this respect, but don't know how the leaves should evolve...

Thanks for any comments :)

A small olive tree that already has a bit of root development and trunk movement and a creeping juniper with a nice split trunk that I thought might look good as a cascade or similar.

My plan is to leave them alone until the spring and just let them adjust to my place, so they're on a NNE balcony that gets morning sun from dawn to around 11-12. I can later on move them to a windowsill that gets very direct afternoon sun.

I appreciate any feedback on them.

I live in an apartment in the dry part of NW Spain, and don't have many spots where to have plants outside. A small balcony roughly NNE and this windowsill, WSW, which is rather hot and dry during the summer afternoon.

So I've been attempting to keep a tomato plant here, which doesn't die but also doesn't quite thrive, it's only given two tiny cherry tomatoes so far, and most flowers sadly don't develop fruit. Maybe too much heat or too little humidity, or maybe I've neglected the potassium fertilizer a bit.

Then recently I got a guindilla plant which seems to be doing ok (other than it seems to be fully into growing a single pepper and barely any new leaves), and some curry rosemary and thyme (which iiuc are fine with this sort of weather).

It doesn't look great right now, but it's my first time doing some gardening outdoors in forever, so I decided to take this summer as learning time and see what works and what doesn't in these conditions. Hopefully next year will be better.

I tend to go a bit overboard when I start hobbies, hopefully these will survive 😅

From left to right (roughly):

• A coffee plant
• Two little Jade plants (crassulae)
• Several asparagus plants (from a single one from Ikea)
• A small attempt at growing a tobacco plant from seed, those are really tiny seeds!
• A portulacaria afra

I live on a rather dry climate, so hopefully these don't do terribly...