Hello Tina, your new mix should be fine for a couple of weeks I would think. Sorry I can't help you with regard to the fertilisers you mention as I am not familiar with those brands being from 'over the pond'! The same applies to how often you should water them as my climate is so different. However, even here I can water them at least every other day during the summer as it's surprising how much water they will use in a fast draining mix as others have pointed out. I fertilise once a week spring to autumn. As for trimming roots above the soil...I do this when I raise the caudex each spring, but mainly they are those thin feeder roots that will dry out anyway when exposed. I have also been known to trim those slightly thicker ones as well, say just under pencil thickness if they have been sprouting randomly from the really chunky ones. As long as there's plenty of feeder roots left below, you are fine. The roots/caudex/leaves will bleed clear irritant sap so beware. Can you post a picture, it will make it better for us to help you maybe? Gill from the UK.

Hello and welcome, Blooms! I had asked for mscynthia about possible locations around the DFW area to get adeniums from a friend of mine in the nursery industry that lives up there and he said perhaps the higher end nurseries...but they might be expensive. But he knows of my adenium obsession and always has an ear out for places for me. There are a few locations around Houston, however, that Marie had shared with me. They are spread out so if you drove from one to the other it would definitely be an all day affair. Let me know and I could share this list with you. I had bought two adeniums from adeniumrose.com and I was happy with the size and shapes of them. I did buy the proven blooms. I would buy from them again. Kirk

Sue, I have a couple of large standard pink color and both plants have produced seed pods, I guess the flowers were pollinated by an insect and they created a capsule shaped like a pencil (only thicker in the midlle)and when ripe it opened up and the seeds were attached to some fluff at the end to help them blow away with the wind. I have been able to germinate the seeds and actually grew a few babies that I gave away. I had found a solid red flowered plant at Home Depot for $9 in a 1 gal can and I quickly snatched it up. On my return trip from Redlands orchid show, I stopped at another Thai orchid importer and they also sold desert roses, there I found the pure white. As these plants get larger, I will pollinate the flowers and see about growing the seeds into blooming plants. As far as planting the cuttings, I also have trimmed one the big plants and have left the cuttings in the shade to dry and harden and in about a week or so I will plant them in very fast draining soil mix (cactus stuff should be fine). Please note that if you like the fat base of the plant (Adenium obesum) you will not get it when you plant a cutting. The fat base is only generated from seed, cuttings will grow straight up and keep their slim shape at the base...

Jeannie, If that is the soil (pictured next to green pot) it really should be a soil with more large particles in it. It looks quite fine in structure. Where you reside, you can get away with a different soil than where I am in the summer months, but in the fall/winter when temperatures get low and plants go dormant, It is imperative that the roots do not live in damp soil. I would leave it for now in the small pot and in Spring, pot up into a 6" - 8" pot. I like there to be about 1 1/2" - 2" on either side of the caudex (wide base of plant) to inside pot edge when finished potting up. Best to add some Perlite, Grit, Growstones or alike to the mix to make it more free draining. You can also straighten it up when ever you repot, now in existing pot or new one in the Spring. Rick