Hi, I have found that you can still stagger them a bit by keeping them in the dark and not planting them, but you really do have to keep an eye out for the 'more than the tip' of the bloom showing. If you delay too long, you chance the bud being deformed or aborting. When you see the thicker portion of the bud, you definitely do need to pot it up and give it some water. I have purchased some at discount at the end of the season. Some had deformed blooms, but to my surprise, many of those produced a second bloom. Some had not bloomed at all yet. Those were Minerva and Red Lion. HD had them for $1, so I bought lots. As you can tell by my zone, they grow in the gardens here, but despite a large collection, I still tend to bring most of them into an enclosed porch and patio area and enjoy the ones that decide to bloom during the winter months. I keep them outside as long as possible. Our first frost is often Thanksgiving week, and I'm scrambling to start bringing them inside. Some I cover with a blanket and do not bring in until later. As long as they are protected, the leaves do not totally melt (some are tinged). This tends to prolong the time until they bloom. By Christmas time, we usually have another hard frost/freeze and those that are indoor bound are inside for the rest of the winter. Most bloom inside, except for the Johnsonii which are in the garden. Johnsonii bloom after the last frost which is normally mid March or April 1. I think that you will find that the bloom time is not precise, so you most likely will get staggered blooms. Some blooms will last longer than others. Some will produce a second set of blooms. Good Luck and enjoy! I don't think I have 50 varieties, but I have many. Most are hybrids. Many are doubled. I have just started collecting diploids this past year and hope to purchase more this year.

I've so enjoyed reading through this tread. My thanks to all who contributed and who take time to plant for the wildlife. Sherry, couldn't help but relate to your story regarding your blackberry canes. I, too, have been fighting the spread of Blackberry canes. I don't know if they were planted by the prior owner or by the neighbor behind me but even with me cutting each cane over and over during the growing season, they had spread so badly they were even beginning to show up all over my small grassy area in the backyard, not to mention the garden beds. Strong canes with terrible thorns that catch at fabric and skin, no matter how carefully the canes are handled. Last year I could see I was losing the battle so I purchased brush killer and carefully sprayed in the spring with the first spring flush of growth, everywhere I could spray without hitting other plants (I used a tall hollow cone to try and contain the spray to each cane). I managed to set back the growth somewhat but couldn't eliminate everything and managed to also kill spots in my lawn. Didn't want to attempt that process again but with this spring's blackberry cane again sprouting all over, I decided to try something new. I cut each growing cane I could reach down to about 6 inches above ground, soaked a cotton ball in full strength brush killer, placed the cotton ball on top of the fresh cut, covered it with a plastic sandwich baggie and used a rubber band to hold all in place. I am proud to say the cane's are dying, even the ones growing up into my neighbors flower beds, where I couldn't place cotton balls. I'm hopeful that with a season of doing this, I can get rid of the underground roots that spread so far and wide. Blackberries are wonderful but for a small city lot, some can be terribly invasive and destructive. Of course, I would not place these covered, soaked cotton balls in an area where pets or small animals might roam. I don't know if wild animals would sense the danger but I doubt if domesticated pets would know to leave them alone. I've wondered if an inverted flower pot placed over each cut cane, with a heavy rock on top, would be enough of a deterrent to keep animals from investigating? My hope is this season will see the end of the blackberry canes on my property! :-) Mary

A warm good evening to everyone Now first I've been reading everyone's concerns regarding the legality and ethics, now the general public CANT AND WILL WIN THE POLITICIANS so there's no pint because they absolutely don't list to there people. BUT take my example in 2012 I had imported £12000.00 worth adenium plants from Thailand, Now if it was sone else than me they would had started selling those imported plants strait away AM I RIGHT OR CORRECT, But not me because I didn't want to sell a plant if it was going to die in someone's house after a few week/months and I wanted to see with my own eyes if those 14000. plants would survive our climate or know And to introduce myself I'm from CUMBERNAULD GLASGOW SCOTLAND UK. Now what I DID WAS I WANTED TO SEE THAT IF MY PLANTS WILL adapt - acclimatize or not to cut the long story short after 18 months every single plant was IN PLANT HEAVEN. just for BITT MORE ABOUT MY SELF, WE STARTED ajwaplantsuk in 2012 and our start was with hard to find orchid plants and because normally you cant grow orchids from seeds personally I was not satisfied because I wanted to grom something from seeds, And I'm sure all the good folk here would agree that when you are growing something from seeds it's a totally different kind of FEELING I would say it's just like bring up your own kid so that £13000.00 went down the drain then we tried our luck on PLUMERIA RUBRA [FRANGIPANI] AND FOR ABOUT 3 YEARS THE SEEDS WHERE GERMINATING BUT BUT THEY WHERE NOT ABLE TO SURVIVE FOR SOME REASON WHEN AS MY DAUGHTER IS A BOTANIC SO I DONT HAVE TO LOOK FOR SCIENTIFIC ADVICE FROM OTHERS. IN 2011 I HAD TRAVELLED TO SAUDI ARABIA TO VISIT OUR HOLIEST PLACE ON EARTH THEN IN SAUDI ARABIA I HAD SEEN THESE FASCINATING PLANTS IN THE FRONT GARDEN OF OU BRITISH EMBASSY AND I ASKED MY SON USMAN THAT I WANTED TO SEE THE GARDER OF THE EMBASSY, Well you might be wondering why would I be speaking to the garden of our embassy so the ANSWER IS THAT BY THE GRACE OF GROD MY SONS WORKS FOR OUR FOREN OFFICE AND HIS FIRST POSTING BEEN IN SAUDI ARABIA OR HE WOULD HAVE BEEN SELLING DOONER KEBABS HERE. and after that now even if I'm just stopping over I try my best to have few days of a stopover in AL RIYADH AND THAT'S WHERE I GOT MOST OF THE KNOWLEDGE AND I KNEW THAT IF I COULD MANGE TO GROW THEM HERE IN SCOTLAND THEN IT WOULD BE NO LESS THAN A MIRACLE BECAUSE AS I MENTIONED AND ITS JUST WITH ADENIUMS THIS IS I PERSONALLY HAVE NOTICED THAT NO IMPORTED PLANTS CAN WILL NOT SURVIVE IN OUR CLIMATE SO THE NEST WAS FORWARD WAS TO START GROWING MY OWN FROM NAMED SEEDS BECAUSE IF I MANAGED TO GROW THEM HERE THEN AT LEAST THEY WOULD AUTOMATICALLY BE ACCLIMATIZED TO OUR CLIMATE AND THEN FIRST HAD TO PRAPE THE PROPER ATMHOPHER LIKE HEATED PROPAGATORS FROWLIGHTS AND PROPER HEATING. ANOTHER THING IM THAT WOULD HAVE NOTICED THAT MOST SELLERS ARE BASED IN THE FAR EAST ESPECIALLY THAILAND CHINA VIETNAM INDONESIA AND SO ON WHEREAS THE ORIGIN OF ALL ADENIUM SPECIES IS THE MIDDLE AND AFRICA, IN OTHER WORDS, THE HEART OF BIRTHPLACE OF ADENIUMS BUT STILL, YOU WOULD HARDLY SEE ANY AFRICAN SELLING PLANTS OR SEEDS OF ADENIUM, THE ONLY RESON IS BECAUSE of FIRST THERE POOR COUNTRIES AND SECONDLY THERE POST OFFICE DOENT LET THEM POST PLANTS OR SEEDS AND THE MOST IMPORTANT THING IS THAT EVEN IF SOME WANTED TO POST SAY ONE PLANT TO THE UK IT WILL PROBABLY COST HIM DOUBLE THE AMOUNT TO POST THAN WHATEVER PRICE HE MIGHT BE SELLING HIS PLANTS AND THIS IS THE MAIN HURDLE FOR THOSE POOR PEOPLE. NOW MY SELF FIRST I DID ORDER SOME SEEDS FROM THE FAR EAST BUT SOMETIMES YOU WOULD GET VERY GOOD QUALITY SEEDS BUT ITS HAPPENED MANY TIMES THAT IT TURNED OUT TO SOMETHING ELSE OR EVEN DUST, THEN I TURNED TO PAKISTAN AND INDIA BECAUSE I KNOW THOSE BASICALLY IM MY SELF FROM PAKISTAN, BUT STILL I HAD IN MY MIND THAT MY ULTIMATE SOURCE SHOULD BE THE MIDDLE EAST AND AFRICA IVE NOT BEEN SELLING MUCH, IN FACT, I HAD STOPPED EVERYTHING AND ON TOP OF THAT MY SON HAS CONTACTS IN AND AROUND AFRICA AND ESPECIALLY THESE ADENIUM ARABICUMS AND SOCOTRANS THERE ALL FROM SAUDI ARABIA AND YEMEN AND IVE BEEN TOO SOCOTRA - SOQOTRA - SOKOTRA ISLAND TO THE HEARTLAND OF SOCOTRANUM AND TRUST ME ALL HOSE FAR EASTERN GROWERS JUST MAKE UP THERE OWN NAMES IN REALLY THERES NOT A SINGLE SOCOTRANUM THAT YOU CAN CALL IT THAI THERE ALL YEMENI OR SAUDI THAT'S HOW ITS CALLED ARABICUM I HEARD A STORY OF THIS THAI IMMIGRANT WHO CAME TO WORK FROM THAILAND AND HE MANAGED TO TAKE A CUTTING OF THE YEMENI SOCOTRANUM AND TRUST ME AFTER SUCCESSFULLY PROPAGATING HE NAMED IT THAI BANG LA SOCOTRANUM YOU GUYS AS THE SAYING GOES SLOW N STEADY WINS THE RACE AND IT REALLY FITS ON ME BECAUSE WHEN I HAD LOST NEARLY TWENTY £200000.00 MY WIFE TOLD TO PACK IT UP AND I INSISTED AND I SAID TO HER DONT WORRY UPS N DOWNS DO COME IN BUSINESS SO NO NEED TO WORRY ,. JUST BEFORE I GO SINCE LAST SEPTEMBER I BEEN TRAVELLING NOT STOP TO SENEGAL CHAD ALGERIA, ZAMBIA BURKINA FASO, MAURITANIA AND NIGERIA DINT WENT TO SOMALIA IM SURE YOU WOULD KNOW THAT THERES PLENTY OF FIGHTING GOING ON LIKE LIBYA TRAVELLING TO THE CITIES AND BIG ADENIUMM SPECIALIST WHOLESALE NURSERIES MAKING MY CONTACTS AND BECAUSE MY SON IS STAINTATIONED IN SAUDI ARABIA AND MOSTLY LORRY DRIVERS TRAVEL by THEIR MASSIVE LORRIES WHO TRADE OIL BY ROAD TO THE REST OF AFRICA SO WITH GRACE OF GOD IVE MANAGED TO BUILD A SOLID CHAIN OF PROPER GENIUN HAND POLLINATED SEEDS OF ALL ADENIUM SPECIES ONLY FROM THE HEARTLAND OF ADENIUMS THAT'S WHERE PEOPLE SHOULD BE GETTING THERE SEED FROM AND BELIEVE WHAT IVE SEEN IN THESE COUNTRIES THE THAI PEOPLE ARE NO WAY NEAR AFRICA BUT YES IT REALLY HURTS TO SEE SO SO MUCH POVERTY IN AFRICAN COUNTRIES I THINK IM DOING A GOOD DEED TOO BY BUY FROM THEM. NOW TO THE TOPIC ABOUT ENDANGERED SPECIES OF ADENIUMS THAT'S MY STRUGGLE TO KEEP A BALANCE AND ALSO HELPING THE POOR SINCE LASTEPTEBER I CAM IN IN LATE FEBRUARY JUST BECAUSE OF THE HALT TO THE FLIGHTS WE WILL BE RE-OPENING OUR EBAY SHP VERY SOON AND ALSO YOU CAN VISIT US AT OUR FACEBOOK PAGE AT ajwaplantsuk gumtree and hopefully will be starting selling on Etsy too first we were just selling adenium plants but now we will be offering hand-pollinated named seeds of ADENIUM DESERT ROSES BY THE IN CHINA THEY CALL IT LUCK PLANT. IT WAS A PLEASE TO MEET ALL YOUL LASTLY PLEASE STAY SAFE FOLLOW THE WHO ADVICE AND STAY HOME THANK YOU ASIA

Betsy, I too was bitten by the Iochroma bug. Just a word of warning though, although they are not impossibly heat sensitive, at least here in Maryland, they aren't like typical southern Brugsmansia such as 'Charles Grimaldi' either. Which love hot weather. Mine grows better in mild weather of spring and seems to stall, at best, in hot weather. Also have not gotten it to bloom. I think it's one from Annie's Annuals called 'Mr. Plum'. It's in a bigger pot and seem to have responded to feeding in early spring so hopefully I will get some flowers in fall. Google shows some cultivars are grown in Miami (!) so it might vary by cultivar and Mr. Plum is just best adapted to the chilly Bay Area like a lot of Annie's plants.