Often suggested is to look in older threads for information Old threads come back to surface ( like this one ) is probably the result of following a suggestion. Anyhoo ( & ironic) 2011( maybe 2010) was the Apx starting year that certain plants had separated from the C&S plant forum. Adenium being one of the plants that where relocated to a different area of the forum ( plant specific) has it's own topic full of threads that can be found by following this link. http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/adenium. Good luck

Hi Barb, you can use NEEM for the common red spidermites or two spotted spidermites. That is the one that is most commonly seen and NEEM will work pretty good on those. There are more rarely a broad mite which is more resistant to most pesticides that is better sprayed with Avid or other specific miticides. Are you new to growing angel trumpets? You can visit the brugmansia forum here on GW for more specific info on brugmansia and datura. I have over a hundred varieties now and they never cease to amaze me.

I just went ahead and separated them yesterday, I actually thought they were going to die, they wilted badly, so I figured they were goners. I took them out of the sun and placed them in the shade, I stepped out of the house, when I returned 30min later they were no longer wilting, I guess they went into shock and came out of it. I had purchased these habaneros at the market, dried one up and threw the seeds in a one gallon pot, within a couple of weeks they started to sprout, this was about a month ago. I kept the two strongest. I hope I don't get a long term affect once they start producing habaneros. Cant wait! :p

@cari, yes, I will work on acclimating it so it doesn't get shocked. I use pebbles on top of most of my other plants and will do that here too. @rina, I don't know a ton about growing succulents and was trying to err on the side of not being too wet. (Most of my other plants are ferns that I water with mindless abandon and they couldn't be happier. I know succulents need to be treated differently.) I read that succulents absorb water through moisture in the air around their roots, which is why it was important to have coarse soil. Is that incorrect? Mostly I didn't think about it being difficult to rewet until Cari asked, and apparently I was somewhat overconcerned about accidentally drowning the plants. I plugged up the drainage hole last night and have it a long, slow watering to completely soak the soil, and then opened the hole again. Should the echeveria completely dry out until the soil is bone dry before I water again (provided it doesn't croak) or can it be watered when it's just a bit damp still? I was thinking of seeing how the plant does with more water before trying to repot. What are your thoughts? Here's a picture of the soil mix I used. The white bits are pumice. I'd say that picture makes it look like there's more pumice in the mix than there is (meaning more has settled toward the top), but there's definitely a lot more in this than there is vermiculite (I think) in "normal" potting soils. Also this is a pretty small bag, maybe a total of two gallons, just to give some scale to the size of the pieces. Thanks!!