Nice!

Rigo

Nice! Warm enough your way to put plants outside yet? Put mine out today.

Mike

Thanks Rigo.

Emptied the greenhouse Sunday Mike. Have some stuff in the house to go out tomorrow.

I love this time of year. Another week and I should have quite a few Adeniums blooming. Have quite a few seedlings to pot up now.

randy

Randy When do you start to feed your adeniums? Do you put them in full sun or shade for the first few weeks? I have 5 of my own.

Rigo

Rigo,

I start fertilizing as soon as they show signs of breaking dormancy. The plants from the greenhouse don't need shade. The ones from the house usually are located where they get half days sun for a week or two, then they get treated like the others.

Usually keep a commercial 15-9-12 9 month formula Osmocote on the soil too.

Hi very nice fatties, I have some seed that I get off of ebay, whats the best way to start them,and get them to look and grow like the ones in your pics. I have never grown these before, any tips would be great and a huge help to me thank you all in advance for your advice..linda

Hi Linda,

Below is a nice link that should help you some. You'll want a very fast draining mix that doesn't stay real wet.

To get seedlings like these would be a somewhat complicated process for a newbie. I would get the propagation and growing technique down first before experimenting.

Both of the plants in the photos are almost a year old and have been pruned at least 4 times. A plant left to grow unhindered would be at least 10 inches tall or more by now. I'm not really interested in big and leggy. I want short, fat, compact, well branched and beautiful.

randy

Here is a link that might be useful: Seed Info

Nice! I can't wait to get mine outside for the season, too. Trouble is, it hits 85 now in my sunroom (50-55 at night) so my fatties are leafing out and flowering in there. As a result, I feel like I need to let the outside weather catch up a bit. Tomorrow is going to be 80 outside though ... hmmmmmmmm....

Then, the forecast says it is back into the 60's/40's so I think I still need to wait a little. I am always conflicted about when is the right time to move them out there. Too many of them to do the in/out shuffle with them for too long. So, when I get them out there I like to keep them out there.

Tom

Tom,

I don't blame you for waiting. Like you, I have too many plants to be doing the shuffle. Once they go out, it's out they stay till the end of October.

randy

Randy,

Thanks for the info, I do use the osmocote as well but never on my adeniums. I will start this as mine are showing signs of breaking dormancy.

Rigo