Hello Yovan, best to start a new thread if you want to ask specific questions regarding your plants, that way, you will get more attention and answers than you will by tagging it onto a thread with another subject line. Plus this thread is old as I started it when the forum had just begun. It now has many posts so takes an age to load on some devices. Just go to the main Adenium page and commence a new thread with an appropriate title that catches people's eye and you will get some replies....have a go! :-) also, please add some location info after your name, that will help give better advise as we then have an idea of your climate/conditions. Gill

Thank you friends.... Chris, what is your zone? This is December, it is too cold for grafts. I normally do my graft right after first blooming season. Around July, so the scions have enough time to grow before winter comes. Hot sunny weather helps. Type in search area (Result of last year grafts) to see my 2012 grafts. Grafting is not hard, it takes practices. John, if you stay in Thailand, you have great weather and you can do your grafting anytime. The most important point is to soak your knifes in rubbing alcohol for 2-3 minutes before you start and often clean your knifes during the process and dry it with clean paper towel. (I used one side razer blade, easy to hold) Ask more question, I will try to help. Many people had different steps, but my steps I wrote in (Result of last year grafts). Marie

Jericson, You have hundreds of photos in this post that it takes forever to download. And while it's downloading the texts/media are jumping around trying to settle in, I guess. Although I enjoy your pictures, I am afraid of crashing my computer (don't think it would). So would you kindly create a Part II or something to this post? I'm not asking only for my own convenience, maybe others are having the same issues? Again, I enjoy your pictures. But in the time it takes to download this post, I could have transplanted an adenium or two. :laugh:

Wow, those worked out really nice, what a diff a little rain makes, huh? Looks like an actual real life prairie. I was wondering if you sowed liatris in that area? I'm curious to see how they do if you did. That plant I dug up to save from development was growing in stiff clay, the sticky red kind that glops up the shovel when you dig, or to be more accurate, breaks the handle of the cheapie spade you bought for the trunk of the car to have on hand just in case. Those liatris were nice & upright growing in the clay but they crawl like snakes in my yard but then so do some of the Kansas ones that were growing in that good loamy soil the ditch along that country road. You got both types of seed. Los Lunas bluestem from HCG came up real strong this year. I've got lots of seedlings which look really beefy compared to other types, its a seed variety rather than grown from clones. I was wondering yesterday how it would do down there? It was selected for dry hostile soils and desert conditions and its a nice light blue in summer with good fall coloring. Speaking of beefy, you ought to see the size of the stems on the Standing Ovation, the leaves are really wide for a bluestem too. One look in person rather than pictures online and you know exactly why those are touted to be flop proof. Its another thats supposed to be good for less than good soil in harsh conditions. Of course, the downside is the high cost and fact that I don't think they will come true from seed. Time will tell.... Los Lunas in mid August, baby plants. One was lodging but the others stood straight. We got a lot of rain in spring, hopefully they will be more upright without all the water. Thats a Gulf Muhly to the right. I dug it out yesterday and plugged in 6 more Los Lunas for a colony. I want that prairie look like you have.