Great. From seed to buds in 5 months. How did you do it? Full sun? Fertilizers? Growing mix? Do you live in a hot climate with a long growing season?

Just curious.

Frank

Wow, congrats! What form is this? Looks like the flower might be white or yellow?

Mark

Nice tree, Tom. It does look like it could be quite an interesting bloom. Great job having it bloom so young and really nice caudex on it.

Rick

Fantastic results there, it's grown tremendously well in 5 months. Please give more info as Frank asks above, I need to know your secret!

Gill UK

It's a matter of genetics...

Great plant, Tom!

Hi Thanks all for the interests. I am not sure what causes for the early
buds, likely is Adenium loves hot weather and the genetic of seeds.

The seeds name is “Summer snow” a double white flower Adenium Obesum,
provided by Rinoa.

I used mainly organic fertilizer (Worm casting tea, a little bit of Kelp,
and “Seachem” Phosphorus Supplement for planted Aquarium) in every watering
except on raining and cloudy days. Slow release fertilizer once a month. It is
better to dispense fertilizer in small quantity at frequent intervals than a
big amount at one go. I learn this in growing Orchid plants.

I am living in Singapore, a tropical country in South East Asia. Hot weather
( 26 to 32oC ), humid with lot of rains. However, weather here is not always
sunny caused by pollution and smoke.

My plants are growing in the balcony, expose to 5-6 hours of morning
sunlight.

The subject 5-month old Adenium Obesum are potted in full compost soil. Only
small amount of water is fed to the plant every 2-3 days to prevent root rot.
Actually this is not the correct growing medium for Adenium, just a trial for
me but it work if you could control the amount of water feed to the plant.

The rest of my plants were potted in small stones mix with coral chips and
10% compost soil. Plants in this stone mixture are growing bigger and stronger;
a few of them had just produce buds. ( I think the coral chips help to provide
essential calcium for the stem)

However, even seedling from the same
batch of seeds have different growth rate. Picture below is a 6-month seedling growing
in stones mixture with buds appearing ↓

Tom, thanks for the explanation as to how you got such a good plant in such a short time....Rinoa's seed and Singapore's climate! That's what I'm lacking :)

BTW, I love your city, it's a fantastic place with friendly folks. Been fortunate to stay there 5 times and hope to return.

Gill UK

Hi, Frank and Gill. Thanks for the kind comments and encouragement. The seedling
has finally bloom today and is white with red strips. ↓

The actual flower is different from the parent plant. I am very happy to have my first Adenium seedling to bloom with such a
nice flower. ↓

Wow Tom, very happy, healthy seedlings u have there. And to get them blooming so early, well done.

The seedling flower is nicer than the parent. But, I prefer singles over bunched up, crinkled, flowers.

Congrats.

Frank

Tom, really nice bloom on your plant. The red stripes from throat are very nice.

I hope it does not mind heights. Wow, what a view from there.

Need to name you new flower, "Sky Scraper".

Rick

Nice plants and lovely bloom Tom!!Lucky to be near the sea!!

That's lovely, I got a few seeds of same type from Rinoa few month ago. lets hope they turn out well:) how are your other seedlings doing in this lot.? Did they all give single white or are yet to bloom?

Mine ne are much smaller than yours, need to give them more fertiliser I think;)

Tom...that is lovely bloom. Your hot weather had made a big different of the growth and bloomed. Lucky you.

Marie

Hi Tom. Congratulations on your early bloomer. What a gorgeous white bloom. I like it better than the parent. This seedling has a really nice round caudex too. I look forward to seeing the rest of the blooms open. Thanks for sharing.

Tracy

Thanks Shimolee, Marie & Tracy.

I am lucky to live in a "desert-like" country.

Although we have the climate suitable for Desert rose but the plant and seed
are not readily available here.

I have learned how to grow Adenium after reading the posts and was attracted
by the beautiful flowers posted by all of you. I also learned through the forum
where to buy seeds from on-line seller. My plants are still very young and need
your advice to grow them into mature plant.

Shimolee, There are three more seedlings from the same seed batch that have
produced buds but are yet to bloom. Today, there are more bloom open in the
same plant. The first bloom is still fresh although it is already 6 days old. Update
in below picture↓

Now my priority is to transplant this baby to a bigger pot.

In addition to the first seedling bloom last month, two more seedlings from
the same parent plant (6 months old) have also made its first bloom.

However, all the 3 seedling flowers are different in style and pattern
though the seeds are delivered together in a same envelop from Rinoa. Are these
seeds came from the same pod?

Hence now I got 3 different types of flower from the same seed batch and
there are 10 more seedlings from the same batch have yet to bloom. Anyway, I am
happy to have the seedling flowers nicer than the parent.

Thank you for reading. Wishing you a Merry Christmas and a very happy,
prosperous New Year!

Hi Tom,

I am staying in the same little red dot but I don't get the SAME results as you!

You are doing a great job growing your plants.All your flowers look awesome.

Looking forward to see more nice blooms .Keep it up!

Hi Watervan,

Thanks for the kind comments. We have the climate suitable for growing Adenium. Three other important factors for growing Adenium are,
Sunlights, good draining medium and fertilizer. If you get all these conditions
right, the plants will take care of itself.

Tom, your plants are gorgeous. None of my seedlings from this year have bloomed, so I am hoping for such lovely blossoms.

Im already thinking what to order in the new year. I want them ready to set out as soon as it warms up. But then it hasn't cooled down yet here. It was 87 degrees yesterday, unseasonably warm, even for SW Florida.

Another batch of Adenium seedling has bloom today. The seeds were from
Orient Adenium, named as Shanghai Night.

This batch of seeds has low germination and low survival rate. Out of 20
seeds sown in May 2015, only 5 seedling plants survive.

Today, two seedling plants have finally giving off it first bloom, but bear
different flowers and both do not appear similar to their parent plant.

Some nice looking ones again. To bad though about the low survival rate.

What did the parent plant look like? Did you get any new buds from your other bath. At the start if this topic.?

A comparison between seedling flowers and the parent plant, all three look so much difference ↓.

Seedlings #1 does look a bit like it. I think double flowers are harder to get.

Awesome seedling#1 have the very nice darken red.

I can't believe how great those flowers came out. Makes me wish I had some obesum seedlings! Inspiring pics. Thanks for sharing!

Hi Tom

The blooms are beautiful. You are very lucky all the offsprings have nicer flowers than the parent plant. Mine turn out to have the ordinary plain red and pink ones even though the parent is dark red with black edging, Prince William. I am sure your media and fertilising play a big part. Happy adeniuming. By the way we have 3 things in common. Same surname. Same adenium addict. Same climate. Philippines.

Part

Simply beautiful!

Tom, you are very lucky guy. They look different than parent but still so beautiful. We all wish our seedlings turn out that way.

Marie

Hey Tom, I wonder how are your beautiful adenium plants, doing after more than 1 year. Beautiful blooms.

Very impressing! It's looking big already for being 5 months old. I have a question about the pots. I see that you use clear pots. Obviously, you're not having any problems with them as your plants look beautiful. Can I use those for my seedling here in Texas where the sun can be brutal in summer? I'm just wondering about root burns.
Stephane

Stephane, many people use plastic drinking cups (w/drainage holes in the bottom) to germinate seeds and as interim "pots" for their seedlings. It's a cost-effective, discartable solution. I believe that is what Tom has done ... It has obviously worked very well for him.

That said, I do not believe it's a good idea to use clear pots for adenium, especially not under full Texas sun. You do not want to expose the roots.

From what I understand, Tom lives in Singapore. He has his adeniums on a balcony, exposed to morning sun only, then indirect sunlight the remainder of the day. It also looks like he has all the clear "pots" altogether in another receptacle. This would protect the roots from exposure.

Hopefully, Tom will come along soon and respond ... And share more pictures of his gorgeous and precocious plants.

Maria Elena

Thank you Maria Elena,

I thought it would be nice to use clear pots so that I could see the water going down when I water but I was afraid of the sun burning the roots in summer time. I'll just stick to what I use.
Stephane

Hi Maria Elena and Stephane. i also saved all my spring water bottles to cut and make pots out of them ready for my seedlings to be transplanted. Do you think that they would still gets roots burned if they under filtered light? I did read somewhere that clear pots develops the roots more as the light is more exposed to the roots. What you think?

Thanks!

Agarta

Nice thread, beautiful plants! Good job! Yes, it's perfectly normal for seedlings to be very hit and miss with regards to looking like the parent plants or not. Only grafted plants or other cuttings are clones of the original. For one thing with seeds you don't always know if they are selfed or cross pollinated with something else entirely. A lot of sellers don't tell you! Also with white flowers you are dealing with the alba gene with is an 'on or off' switch that masks the real color of the flower.

/Some/ hybridizers work very hard to line breed very specific colors through many generations and thereby get much higher results looking similar to the parent plants. But most do not.

Anyway, I would be /delighted/ to get such diversity from a white seed parent! All of your plants turned out to be quite lovely, whether they are what you wanted or not. I hope you like them too! They look very healthy and lovely.