Bom Bom the Cacti- An introduction




Hi, I am Cheryl from Singapore. I started to like cactus since I was in Primary School when I first brought a cactus- Echinopsis chanaecereus f. lueta during a school field trip because I just thought it looked like a Banana.

After that when I walked by a nursery beside a library which I go often, I brought more and more cactus and placed them outside my house. A grafted Parodia leninghausii was one of my collection. After buying it, I seperated the cactus from its graft and named it Bom Bom as it was so fat and round. I started to like it more and more.

Unfortunately, all of my collection was stolen one night and I was left with nothing. My fever for cactus died. However, it came back again when I was working for my school internship programme when I saw Bom Bom's imitation sitting on a windowstill and the cleaner aunty told me what this Parodia Leninghausii had went through.

I started to borrow books about cactus to learn more about it and saw the wonderful pictures. They were so beautiful and unique and I decided to start a collection of my own.

Wednesday, July 6, 2011

In memory of Gymnocalycium

This Gymnocalycium was brought on May 2011. This is also not in my favourite cactus list, the reason I brought is because I initially thought it was a Melocactus or Ferocactus when I buy it in a rush. I still have a very hard time figuring the full name of this species.

However, as time goes by we have 'mutual feelings'. Just when I started to like this this cactus hoping that it will boom for me or growing offsets, it died. Last Wednesday, when I went home, I was curious to see there were weired looking liquid on the cactus, taking a closer look I was shock to see the whole cactus was wobbly when I shake it. Immediately, I knew that it was rotting away.

The picture is a result of it when I clear it out from its pot. Like the cactus, my heart was broken.I still could not figure out the actual reason, but I believed that I could have over-watered it. Its long tap root was 'dissolve' in the soil.
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