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.

Tuesday, July 5, 2011

Failed graft- in memory of Astrophytum ornatum

After some reading and discoveries from the websites, I believe that this cactus is Cereus peruvianus, please correct me if I am wrong. It was given to me by my aunt. She had such a large specimen at home, it grow so big that the space no longer allow it to grow any bigger. Staying at hight rise apartments in Singapore is no good place to grow such plants where each level is only about 2.5m heigh. Nevertheless, my dad help me to cut out two of its offsets and gave it to me.

The picture shown is a failed graft (to save my Astrophytum ornatum suffering from basal rot). I not sure how well this plant work as a graft and due to my inexperience and knowledge, it failed. Sady, I forget to take a picture of my Astrophytum ornatum.

Just wondering how this cactus will become. It is a very tough cactus and it seems to be healing well
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