They look to be well on the path to being very cool leaning Bonsai. Love the leaf patterns on #2.

Oh wow, I may have a shot at this with a little one of mine. Very nice!

Did you just tip the caudex or was it all ready bent? Did you wire the branches?

Rick, these look very neat. I'll follow closely. Keep us updated when you wire or make other changes.

I have one i've been keeping in a bonsai pot. It's doing quite a bit of tipping as the caudex grows. I plan on pruning it some after the flowers are done.

Dain, I really like the color of the flowers on your plant.

Last year when I put the wire on the one in Cream colored pot, It marked the skin on the branches. They really mark easily and indentations from wire can be permanent.

I have changed my method of holding the branches. Will post a new photo to show. Not that it is a professional job.

Rick

Dain, lovely flowers! I wish my own seed-grown obesums would surprise me with such colours. So far the flowers have been, should we say, far from beautiful and eye-catching...

Rick, that is why I use strings. It takes a lot of practise to use wire without marking the skin.

I believe that (wiring) to be very true Martin. Have seen the wires left on too long and when removed, they leave lasting impressions on branches.

Rick

The trick I use when wiring Adeniums is to wire very loosely (which by the way, is really frowned upon in traditional Bonsai.) Adeniums have such pliable stems and branches that you can get away with loose wiring and still get the desired bends in the branches while avoiding any scaring.

Martin, thank you. Even though I've had adeniums for a few years now, this is the first one to put on a 'show' in the spring time, blooming from three branches. The colors are quite nice, much darker than my other pinks. I will say this, though. Along with several other people on this forum, I purchased plants from 'antiquetrader84' on ebay. Every single person has noted that flowers from his plants have all been pink, despite selling over a hundred different varieties. It's a shame many people don't know that seeds aren't true to parent, and are not getting what they expected. I ordered from him because he was in the US, but have since gotten over my fears of ordering seeds/plants from overseas.

Rick, sorry to divert attention from your bonsai thread. To get back on track here's another that i potted in a repurposed kitchen bowl after using a diamond bit to poke a drainage hole in the bottom. This plant is about 8 months old and is healthy, but somewhat slow growing.

I have read that some people soften the branches by hanging there plant bare root for awhile. But I have seen vids from Taiwan that just wiggle the branches for bit of time and then tie them. Do you do anything to the branch ?

Marica they do hang them to reduce the amount of water in the plant, which makes both branches and roots more pliable for training.

Nice plant Dain! I bet you are thrilled with the compactness of this little tree. I like the bowl it is staged in too.

Tracy

Do you have an update on these for us, Rick? Also, do you know if you remove the large leaves if they'll tend to come in smaller and more profuse? That is an old trick we use on regular bonsai but I do not yet know if it works at all on adeniums. Did you ever wire these up?

Good luck Rick, I am a non creative person.

When I was single and lived with my 3 brothers when we first came to America. They arranged all furniture in the apartment for me. Now my husband arranges things around the house for me. I promise to keep them clean and neat, but I can never tell what goes where. Haha.

Marie