Here's Roger...

Hookilau,
Great looking plant with pretty pot.
Yes the cuttings can pot now....but they will not have a caudex, if they do, will take few years.
Marie

Thank you for your reply Marie, I was admiring the pictures of your collection today. Such large and healthy trees :) I hope to have a few like yours one day.

I don't mind not having a large caudex for awhile, I'm learning to not rush things so much.

The cuttings were quite floppy, I put them in a vase with hydroton where they were'nt actually in the water. I was planning on keeping the level of the water just below the cuttings as in the pic....or should I maintain a level so as to keep several nodes immersed in water?

Also, should I remove the remaining leaves?....I removed all but the top 4 and have them positioned low inside the vase so as to provide some protection from drying out too much.

Hookilau, I never try or heard about Hydroton.
So you put the cutting into hydroton with water for them to roots?

Marie

yes. Hydroton is an inert growing medium, it's a brand of fired clay pellets. It works a lot like using fine pebbles but the clay retains some moisture. Works similar to perlite but the particles are larger.

Roger is planted in hydroton too. If you do a google search for hydroculture you'll get all sorts of info. I was reading a GW thread about Hoyas where people were having success growing their plants this way.

I am a serial over-waterer. There. I said it :)
Since transferring my houseplants to hydroculture, I've had no problems with drowning plants. You keep the level of water just below the roots (plant in clear plastic containers so you can see what's going on) and fertilize with diluted nutrients every other week or so depending.

Follow the link below for indepth reading, photos, etc. So far, Roger's little friends seem happy. The leaves have plumped up a bit & the level of the water is still just below the cutting but I have a feeling I can raise the level without adverse affect. I'll probably do this today & continue to take a photo daily.

I grow my new banana plant this way. It's a small plant that is quite happy with this set up. Nothing complicated as you can see, a clear qt sized chinese food container with holes cut into the bottom with my handy-dandy dremel tool.

After a week of just water, I had to take it out of the qt container & put it in the primary container while I source out a large enough crock to put him in. The roots were growing out of the holes =)

Here is a link that might be useful: basics of hydroculture

Here's a picture of my cacao seedlings

I learned something today.
Thank you.
Marie

About those cuttings. There's a nursery near me that sells a lot of plants for bonsai. They have a couple hundred DR seedlings that they have grown. They said that if you grow them from cuttings they never develop that bulb. That's why a good sized one with a bulb can be so expensive - they grow slowly.

I grow a number of plants in hydroton and rockwool. I don't advise it for adeniums. They do much better in a well draining soil medium. Their roots don't like the constant moisture, especially while dormant. Many of my hoyas do well in hydroton and I do add it to my gritty soil mixes.