A long long time ago in a flat land far far away....
Pagan
8 years ago
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I got these plants---my first adeniums. The first plant I got was the Rik Ni Ran, then I experimented with various online sellers (they've only ever shown up once around here), getting different obesum cultivars before I started sowing seeds all within a three-month period. It was a rapid descent from "all I know about plants is salad" to "what wavelength do plants use most?".
So, do you still have your first adenium? Who do you blame for getting started lol
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8 years agolast modified: 8 years agoPagan, yes, three of them grown from seeds myself. I don't blame a person for getting started, but "it". "It" is a habitat-collected specimen Adenium multiflorum 8 km from here at The Botanical Garden of Copenhagen. ;-)
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