My Adeniums in New Delhi
Thanks to Kadie for pushing me to begin a new thread about my adenium progress. Actually my journey started fairly recently. The word "Adenium" came into my life in May 15 when someone in my office mentioned that their's was flowering. I asked what was it, as I had never heard of it before and was soon enlightened about them through my work friends as well as Google images. Well being out of gardening a good 15 yrs ( after the kids grew up and our continuous lives in apartments all around the country due to a transferable job) I was once again caught up in the mystique of the "desert rose". Which was until that day just a song by STING to me. On the very next weekend I paid a visit to the nearby nursery and picked up six plants at Rs.600/ each. Grafted adeniums flowering too. Then I read up some more about the soil etc and set about getting the right soil mix. The vegetable vendor in the colony where I reside was asked for coconut husk(to be cut into bits) and someone else for some grit and sand from a construction site, until I read about Perlite and vermiculite. Then found a supplier of perlite who also had coco peat bricks but he requested me to come and collect them, because he only supplied wholesale. I went about 10 kms to pick up those and thereafter on 15th May mixed up the ingredients to transfer the plants to containers I had bought.
The next day someone mentioned small seedlings for sale at RS.20 each and yours truly was first in line to go buy them at that nursery. So 05 seedlings also added to the collection. In the third week however one evening the pink flowered adenium died ( the best one of the lot) I was heart broken and tried my best to save it but no joy.
With a heavy heart I was back at that nursery from where I had picked up the earlier ones but they were sold out, however they had some plants with seed pods but no flowers and so this time bought 04 plants and 03 of these had seed pods. So today I am proud mum to 15 adenium plants. The last 04 ones have been shedding leaves since transplantation to pots ( they were in bags)
After transplanting into new containers
The yellow pink adenium
All my adeniums (fifteen) including the dead one (3rd from right in 2nd row)
They live in the sun on my terrace and are brought inside the moment its thunder/rain.
Forgot to add that after the first adenium died (the pink one) I removed by sieving all the sand that I had added to these pots because I felt the sand was not allowing good drainage of water but retaining it too much along with coco chips
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Sinha
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New to adeniums, but so far my seedlings are looking well!
Comments (10)Thanks NeonCactus I got a desk lamp & grow light strip from Walmart. I set it up in my small closet that has a bench and put all seedlings/rehab/over winter plants in there. It gets warm in the closet during the day from all the lights and at 5pm I pull the plug from the wall and keep the door open so air circulate. Lights are 6am-5pm because I leave for work at 6:20 and get home at 5. So u have one curly bulb (warm spectrum) and LED which is (cool spectrum) and the light strip which the color is purple so it's the broad spectrum light. And it is cheap so here's pic lol my mom gave me the idea since all my plants Weren't used to the dry air in our new home here and kept dying. Leaf drop, shriveled branches, yellowing, it was bad and plants aren't cheap, so I thank mom for this idea...See MoreMy New Adenium Obesum
Comments (18)Pictures are downloading as we speak. Unfortunately I seem to have encountered a problem with an outdoor, mature azalea tree on the porch. It's been living here in this exact spot win the exact pot for over a decade but now It appears something is clogging the drainage holes on the bottom and the pot is flooded with water, not waterlogged, worse, as in the tree has been sitting in water for days. it seems that is has been this way for at least a few days as the water smells stagnant. The tree has a small bit of brown leaves but it actually looks relatively okay, when considering how bad of circumstances this is... at this point it is still in water as the pot weighs at least 100lbs, solid glazed ceramic. I tried getting a long thin pole and poking down to the bottom of the pot, attempting to make a path for water to flow out of the pot, but about 3-4 inches from the bottom I encountered something rock hard that I could not penetrate. I also found when poking around with the pole that the pot may be rootbound, as I felt so many roots digging down. I am going to go try again and see if I can lift the pot. I just finished lifting the pot and got some of the water out, though it is still waterlogged soil, and upon tilting the pot over to the side a bit I found a thick bundle of roots blocking the water exit hole and they had gone all the way out of the bottom of the pot and wrapped around the area between the pavement and pot. this is going to be one helluva hacking job for me... I actually don't know how I am going to fix the situation on such a large scale. I can't get a bigger pot, these are about as big as they come and even if there is something bigger a quality one would cost hundreds, How would I do a large scale root trim on a 6 foot tall tree? It's such a big plant, I would need a forklift to get it out of that pot and putting it back in would be a disaster. Any tips?...See MoreMy new adeniums
Comments (14)Tracy, It does not look that it is a grafted plant, just what I was seeing in other photo. I am not an expert at pruning, but it looks as though this plant could use a pruning when the time is right. I would say definitely above the small lateral branches that are close to base. Marie, would give good advice as she is very experienced in pruning. From what I have seen, the pruning is very subjective, depending on the structure of plant you are after. I like the compact and full look of the pruned ones. You have some nice plants. Rick...See MoreMy New Adenium is Loosing Leaves
Comments (5)That's a nice plant! I have several adeniums in large clay pots. Even 9b isn't always warm enough to support these guys being outside year round, so when the short winter period arrives, I bring them inside and place them under lights. I have read in adenium research how plants going dormant increases the likelihood of failure from minor afflictions which could have been "grown through" if the plant were actively growing. In the past, I used two small banks of LED grow lights. However, I recently bought two, four-bulb fluorescent lights (4 feet long). I purchased them at Home Depot for a combined $100.00. I also decided to hard trim my adeniums this year. I trimmed my two large plants on all except 1-2 branches on each. I left those branches to ensure that the plant had energy coming in from at least those leaves, and I will cut them after more new branches are showing. I want to avoid any downtime that might weaken the plant. Placed under these lights I am able to do all of the things I should not do to an adenium in winter. I water them almost daily. I fertilize them. I would recommend placing your plant in a warm location with at least some additional lighting. I would also recommend something that I should have done sooner to my first adenium: trim the spindly limbs. Cutting a main limb at the correct length will result in the growth of 2-3 new limbs - greatly increasing the number of limbs, and thickening the growth....See Morearti
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8 years agoThe entire log for the grow out is at this link including my comments!
I had sown 7 seeds of black giant of which 06 sprouted and 07 seeds of thai socotranums of which only 03 sprouted
http://forums.gardenweb.com/discussions/3374410/log-for-grow-out
Some pics of them today are below
Sinha
8 years agoTime for a short update on the plants. Most of them survived the winter and are all are growing new leaves and a few are putting out some buds too. They have not been pruned at all as they hardly grew last year before the winter onset.
There are 10 new additions obtained from Chennai this January. Two of those have a bud each(enough to make my day). One of last years is starting to form a few buds.
The weather is inconsistent, in that it becomes quite hot of late in the afternoons and then there are sudden showers and the temps come down again. This is happening atleast once a week since past two weeks.
Now for the pics
These two are new from Chennai of the ten that I received.
The one below is a year old and has started some buds which I observed today. Hopefully I will have some flowers finally God willing!!
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8 years agoSinha
8 years agolast modified: 8 years agoWelcome to the forum Angel-face!!
I am sure your adeniums will grow very well.Just make sure you dont over water them. That is the only insult they dont tolerate somehow.
Here are a few pics of my blooms that happened yesterday futher to the pics of the buds that I had uploaded. Few more have buds now maybe again in two weeks I will have an opportunity to upload some more pictures.
This one is called Marilyn Monroe
This one is called Jam Far
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7 years agoI just hard pruned most of my adeniums.Thought Sep to be the best month because temps are still 30°C plus and they will all get new leaves by the time winters set in here in nov/mid Dec.
Sinha
7 years agoThank you Gill, Marie & Tracy,
The Delhi weather there is only one word to describe it- "Extreme". The details of the weather and seasons are given at this wikipedia link here.
A pic from the link inserted here will appraise you why we need AC's from March till October and then heaters from Dec end till Jan. However, September and October are the best months...when it is all moderate.
Poor Adeniums... they too suffer these weather vagaries along with us!
I also mixed some epsom salts and some urea (just a little ) to ensure that they grow despite my pruning!
Sinha
7 years agoThank you Gill, Marie & Tracy,
The Delhi weather - there is only one word to describe it-
"Extreme". The details of the weather and seasons are given at
this wikipedia link here.A pic from the link inserted here will appraise you as to why we need AC's
from March till October and then heaters from end Dec till Jan. However,
September and October are the best months...when it is all moderate.
Poor Adeniums... they too suffer these weather vagaries along with us! I also mixed some epsom salts and some urea (just a little ) in the media to
ensure that they grow despite my pruning!
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6 years agoHi there friends, sorry I have been out from the forum so long. Just saw so many comments on my thread so thought to update. Actually I have moved out on transfer from Delhi, in Jun 17, to Mumbai.
Sadly, I bid all my 30 odd adeniums goodbye and left them behind with another addict- my father- who resides at Delhi, and agreed to be their care taker until I return.
He became so addicted with them that now he is thinking of getting a small green house set up made for them at his place. That made me look up the forum, so that I could forward him the green house posts- made by the members here in their locales. Hence this post.
Deepak, I tried grafting on my adeniums but it didn't work out on any of them. So in my opinion if you are new to adeniums, just enjoy growing them and forget about grafting. On FB there is a page cactus and succulents net market india. I recently bought grafted adeniums on it for Rs.15 each for my dad. He is quite happy with them. There are many sellers on this particular page and you can see the listings.
Geeta, for making them bloom in Mar Apr 18, please start feeding them some liquid fertilizer in the water.Potash, epsom salts, etc do wonders.
Currently all my succulents including adeniums are at Delhi and only one flowered after I left in June. Posting a pic below. Now I get to admire the pics only, so sharing.
This forum is a great place to be and its as bouncy as ever! To adeniums!!
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6 years agoY J Gandhi
6 years agoThis is my Adenium, Grown up well. New leafs coming up but no flowering now. Should i Re-pot to larger pot as current pot is very small one? Should i add fertilizer? Can I prune in this season? As winter is there i am watering it after every 4-5 days once dry. And keeping it inside during night.
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