If your plant could speak it would probably say "I wish I was back home in Tanzania, I miss the hot weather" :-) I wonder if it's just not hot enough for your plant to be in full-tilt growth mode, so it may not be responding to watering, sun or food the way you may think. Bring the plant outside in July and August and you will see what I mean. Adeniums are beautiful plants, but growing them well outside of Saudi Arabia, Thailand, China or Arizona is exceedingly difficult...perhaps more challenging than almost any other succulent species. They simply need lots of heat. X

Hi Crazy, Dont worry about the wrinkling, after it is rooted it should plump back up. Some wrinkling is normal in their dormant state. Dont cut it just because its wrinkled, only cut if it is rotten(brown and squishy). You can pierce the cutting with a sterilized needle. If the liquid that comes out is white you are ok. If it is brown, you have rot and need to keep cutting. Sterilize your cutting implement after each cut, as to not spread the rot. Cut until you have reached firm white flesh. Bottom heat during the rooting process speeds up rooting. A seedling mat works wonderfully. And of course, have patience. What I am concerned about is your potting mix. Is it regular miracle-gro? Plumeria need a fast draining mix like a cactus mix, or you add can perlite to regular mix. Some people use 3 parts perlite to 1 part potting soil. Then switch to 50/50 when your plant is rooted/established. Hope this helps! Randy in Savannah

I've been a member of GW for a long time and just noticed this forum. It sounds to me like your mom is doing ok. You might look into the medications she's on, if any. Some of them can cause a mental decline, like one did to my grandmother the last 20 years of her life. A lot of drugs deplete or interfere with nutrient uptake too, which can cause a lot of problems over time. 1 or 2 my mom is on block magnesium, which is a very important heart and muscle nutrient, among other things. There's a good book called "The Magnesium Miracle" that tells all that has been learned about its function in the body. It can be related to mental decline in some cases, maybe a lot for all I know. A lot of older people don't absorb nutrients as well and don't eat as much or maybe don't eat the right foods. I've been going through some difficult times with my mom. She has been in the hospital twice this winter. The first time was a result of a medication, one I had tried to get her off ever since she started it, a beta blocker. She's a worrier and at one dr. visit she was voicing her concerns over heart attacks and stroke and he said he could put her on that drug if it would make her feel better, but she really didn't need it at the time. I could've shot him! That drug has some side effects that just gave her more problems. So she was on that for 5 or so years and she gradually declined with the problems it gave her. She was kept in the hospital overnight for observation and in the evening she told the nurse that it was the time she always took her beta blocker. The nurse looked at the monitor and saw that her heart rate was low and told my mom she didn't want to give it to her with her heart rate already so low and she wanted to talk to the doctor about it. So she didn't get it that night, but they did give it to her the next morning. I went with her to her follow up appt. with her doctor and brought up that issue and he said he had noticed that and had decided to take her off it. Now if I could just get her to quit worrying about everything, she'd improve more. I've been telling her that her worrying so much is part of the cause of her bp problem and she needs to just let it go, that if somethings going to happen, it will and worrying about won't change that. Last weeks hospital trip was due to her bp going up too high and the diagnoses was anxiety,so she seems to be trying harder to not worry. She talks to me about everybodies ailments, even people I don't know and she needs to focus on more positive things, but it's hard since most people she knows are getting up there in age and having a lot of problems. Anyone else have that to deal with? My health is down because of drained adrenals and I can't take a lot of stress myself. Last weeks hospital run about did me in. I hijacked this thread. Sorry! I hope you're mom is ok. You're doing a great job with her!

Looks like it could be an iron deficiency. But, I wouldn't chance it. The best thing you can do is purchase a kit like I did to find out why one of my Rhododendrons looked like that too. I used this kit. It showed that the Ph was way off because it was too close to the foundation, which contained limestone in the masonry concrete. I moved the plant forward and adjusted the Ph and the plant is fine now.