Eeeppp I've been re potting mine any time, whoops. My oldest one (just over a year) I re potted into an unglazed ceramic pot awhile ago (start of winter)and a couple of weeks later its caudex had visibly lost a lot of its size and become soft. I quickly pulled it up thinking it had root rot but it looked fine, just soft, so I thought maybe I was under watering. After a good soak it was solid again but then a week later it was soft again so I put it back into a plastic pot with another big soak and it has been solid ever since, but I'm sure the caudex still isn't as big as it was. So I'm thinking I will not put my adeniums in unglazed pots again and have learned that, as only one of my babies out of about 70 has gotten root rot this winter, not to be too stinggee with the watering. As yet (we have about a month and a half or so to go) my adeniums have made it through thier first winter!!! YAY!!! Touch wood.

Greenjay, thanks, glad you like my efforts so far, my fav is #3. Bikerdoc, hope someone from the USA comes in to help you find a good seed supplier as I'm from the UK. As for the germinating media I tend to use a 50/50 mix of cactus and general purpose potting compost. The seeds need to be soaked in warmish water for 4 hours or so before lying them on the surface of your pots and covering with just a sprinkling of mix. Keep them moist but not saturated and in the mid 20'sC. If fresh, they should pop in a matter of a few days, mine come through in 5/7 usually. They grow quickly once through and need to be kept moist for several weeks after sprouting. When around and inch or so high and with a couple of sets of true leaves I re-pot mine individually into 30% cactus mix, 30% potting compost and 30% horticultural grit...it needs to be very fast draining. I let mine dry out before I water again which can be every other day even here in the UK! Give them as much light & warmth as poss. Keep them growing year round for 2 years if poss...I find young seedlings don't go dormant anyway and the bigger the plant is going into winter, the more reserves it has to go through a dormant period. When older/bigger, in summer treat as tropicals...ie.warm and watered often but remember, don't let them sit in water or get waterlogged or the roots rot. In winter keep drier like a cactus....if they go dormant and loose leaves hardly water them at all. Cold and/or constantly wet and soggy feet are killers, the roots and caudex can rot easily. As for root pruning, well I'm not the one to tell you much about that as I haven't got to that stage with mine...yet! Good luck, hope this helps, it's what I do with mine anyway. Josh, thanks for the heads up on the root pruning... I will certainly now wait a while before I chop them as I'd certainly like them to put on some more growth yet. Regards, Gill from the UK.

Hey, I have an A. Obesum from Logees! I originally had it in a clay pot, but it out-grow it and all I had was a plastic pot. It has been in that pot for over a year now and is doing fantastic. I kept pruning it and it just kept growing. Filled the bottom third of the pot (since it is fairly deep) with pistachio shells, and use a fairly well-draining soil. Before I put the shells in, the plastic pot was holding too much moisture. I noticed this because when I went to re-pot it, the bottom of the pot was muddy and the roots seemed dead. I also have lifted the caudex three times since I put it in that pot. It seems to be thriving. I would say a clay pot is definitely preferable, but as long as the soil drains well, you should be okay with plastic. I must agree with everyone else though that a self-watering pot would not be a good idea. Here is a link that might be useful: My DR with pistacio shells

Oh yeah that was def good deal considering that the plant must be at least 4 years old judging by its size. My addiction to Adeniums started after I purchased one in walmart for $15. After researching about Adeniums more, I started growing them from seeds... and yeah now I have about 80 of them. It is one very easy plant to grow from seeds. I feed them liquid food mixed with supertrive and they are out of control! One thing I love to do is to order different colors of seeds and mix them up and trick myself into not knowing which seed is what color. In the end when they bloom for the first time it's always a surprise to find out what color they are! lol http://home-and-garden.webshots.com/photo/2438729350042710999SKrHqL?vhost=home-and-garden