Nevermind, I found out that for every 1 Inch you should leave it out for 1 Month.

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.

These plants will go dormant in the winter. The foliage drops but the caudex and stems should remain firm. I'm in zone 7a and most of my DR's are now dormant. A couple are still blooming in the GH but even most of the plants I moved indoors are dormant. I water very little while dormant, if at all. Not sure if you have enough daylight hours to bring them out of dormancy or if they'll wait to wake up when the day lengthens in your zone. I begin watering again in the early spring and put them back outside the end of May.

Hi Carol...every time I buy a desert rose that has buds they abort before they open.It's not uncommon.The big fat base can be raised up out of the soil if you like it that way, I have done so with several of mine, be careful not to expose the freshly raised part to extreme sun until it is used to it.These plants can take full sun and do quite well in it as long as you move it into full sun slowly. Karen