Johndoug: Never buy trees online unless you are already familiar with the nursery you are dealing with, and are satisfied about their reputation. You could also mention the name of the nursery you are considering. Someone else may have had experience with them. If you have room for only two trees, nut trees may not be the best choice. Even the best grafted trees tend to become large specimens, and they take years to begin producing. They also require some processing off the tree, including curing and cracking, and the results can be disappointing. I had two grafted Carpathian Walnuts that grew over 30 feet tall before I realized they were wasting their space. Nuts were few and far between, and of poor quality, and the trees seemed subject to leaf diseases that made them unattractive. As far as I am concerned, nuts to the nuts unless you have a farm. A couple of semi-dwarf fruit trees would be a better choice for a limited space. Don Yellman, Great Falls, VA

Thanks everybody, I'll be watching them closely to see how they fare. As to how often albinos appear, I have no idea--this is my first experience with adenium seeds and out of roughly 120 to140 seeds sown--I can't remember how many exactly offhand--I got these two albinos. And the majority of my seeds are arabicums and Thai socos, only a handful--perhaps 15 or 20, are obesums. From what I've read, both here and on other adenium forums, they virtually all die because they have no green coloration and therefore cannot perform photosynthesis. I have seen albino seedlings grafted onto small branches of other adeniums, all with vee grafts--no flat grafts. These appear to be successful though I don't know the actual percentage. Lastly, here's a more overhead view of the KHZ albino that shows the three cotyledon leaves fused together as one--though it's not easy to see because they're so pale yellow and the camera flash kind of washes it out. Mike in MN

I get my bare-root seedlings here,http://www.barthelemymaples.co.uk/download their catologue.I use(and they)the Senkaki seedlings but they're not available 'til mid Feb.The 6-12" didn't grow enough to be ready for summer grafting in my garden but maybe the taller ones would be.I do sometimes buy potted seedlings for summer grafting but they're not cheap at about ã2 each.

Haha, you are too kind, Agartta. They are ugly as sin to be honest. But given time and growth they should look better. I think the key is keeping them covered longer. Of twenty grafts, I had two failed and one that didn't take but still looked good and was leafing out, but not attached! So I sliced that one and glued it again. I hope you are inspired to try, Elena! I am eager to see my seedlings bloom for the same reasons, though I doubt mine will bloom this year. I graft a lot of things besides adeniums and I have learned a thing or two. With woodier grafting the common opinion is you really need to line up the cambium layers in the bark as much as possible. But with adeniums it seems that doesn't matter - lining up the soft sapwood instead is helpful as that is what grows back first. You can bind with grafting tape, wide flat rubber bands or strips of other soft rubber, plastic food film, raffia (real or synthetic), etc. Anything string like that is flat enough not to bite into the soft woody material. Ideally stretchy helps but isn't required. Binding the baggies with rubber bands doesn't seem to be ideal and it's easy to get them too tight. You especially don't want that with adeniums as it can shut down the flow of moisture and nutrients from the root stock to the scion. So many of these I bound the baggies on more gently using raffia and that seems to have worked much better, leaving no marks. For sealing wounds you can use lots of different things as well. Nail polish, glues of various kinds, wax, and tar all being popular in traditional grafting. I happen to like clear materials so I can keep an eye on the progress. While every kind of plants have their idiosyncrasies, most grafting behaves about the same. So if you can't find enough inspiration to try when doing internet searches on how to graft adeniums, simply do searches on 'plant grafting' instead. You'll see there are a lot more options to try than just flat grafts or clefts. I'll be trying more variety myself. Incidentally, I also ran into a gal on Facebook who roots all of her adenium cuttings in water! She gets a much higher rate of rooting hydroponically than putting them in soil so I'll be trying that as well, just because I'm now curious as all hell to try it. This sounds right up Jericson Pastor's alley. ;)