My chubby compact Adenium babies
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Comments (9)Hi Sue, I sowed ten seeds of A. Obesum back in April and this is my remaining seedling pictured for you a few moments ago. Think 8 germinated, but alas, I lost the others to various issues including rot, deformity, clumsyness and critters. We got back from Spain last Thursday (temps in mid 20's, lovely!)and wasn't sure what would greet me plant wise as it's gone very cold here in the UK (snowed all yesterday, brrrr!) but pleased to see all are OK. No leaves have dropped from this baby so far apart from it's seed leaves, and it's now 6 inches tall. I am really pleased to have got it to this stage. It survives on top of the tropical fish tank getting 'free' bottom heat from the light unit. Ideally, I would like it to stay short and chubby in preference to long and tall, and have asked about pinching the growth point out to keep it that way. The reply was to wait until it has put on more size....so I will! I guess it's slowed down now and won't pbe getting much bigger during our cold winter days. Sounds like you have a good growth rate if you have some at 2 inches high in a month! Any pics? Gill....See MoreTime to prune my favorite giraffe Adenium
Comments (116)Thank you for the compliment, Rick. I felt the need to find the perfect pot for all 3 plants before I could pot them, if that makes any sense at all. I am looking forward to seeing them respond with new growth. Next weekend I will be repotting some of my 16 week old A. obesum and A. arabicum seedlings. Some of the multiple plants that we found in Florida gave me a couple of ideas with the repots. I would like to try potting up some juveniles together and train them to form unique duos and trios. If I use 3 different cultivars then come blooming time, if I am lucky there will be 3 different types of flowers on them too. Just an idea...perhaps it will be good material to start a new thread. Tracy...See MoreAdenium Garden - Martin in Denmark
Comments (158)Martin, your Bursera look lovely ! I'm quite envious ! :) I would love to grow some from seed. Maybe when I've got some space...I've just put 8 pots of rooted cuttings of P. Afra on ebay as I have too many ! If they find homes, I'll get my heated propagator out again, and maybe try some Commiphora too. I'd really like to try Boswellia, but it's hard to get seeds (and even harder to get them to germinate !) My Bursera is very much a work in progress. When I got it, it had no branches and was about 3 feet long ! The first 6 or so inches was maybe an inch thick - it then tapered off like a whip. It had lost almost all of the few leaves it had whilst in transit (I imported it from Spain !) It's shorter now, and thicker, and has developed some branches - it really is pot luck where they appear - but for me, any branch is welcome considering what it looked like when I got it ! As they are quite rare, I try to root everything I cut off it, and have had some success with that. I'll get some photos later today, or over the weekend....See MoreUpdate of my Adenium trees
Comments (14)Cindi, I agree with Rick that your babies are elongated. If I may, I would like to recommend this: place your trees where they can get the most sun and leave them there, do not move around; stop fertilizing for now; let the rain provide the moisture needed, but if it does not rain for 3 days, then of course water them; decapitate the elongated stems where the leaf nodes started to elongate and apply cinnamon powder. I visited Florida once, during the month of February, and found it quite humid. But I visited the NE side, Palm Coast, so I don't know about the SW side where you are located. Hope this helps, my friend. Kadie...See More- 9 years agolast modified: 9 years ago
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