Beautiful and delicate flower! Congratulations Agartta! :)

Nice flower is it pink?(hope u say its red)Agartta see the bud behind it looks shredded i have a plant that dose that its puzzling me what's going on with it .

I THINK it's gorgeous too. - J

Peter - the bloom is a dark pink around the edges. Quite a nice small bloom. The bud does look shredded, I think it different variety. Every bloom is different on every plant. Depends on light, soil, feed etc.

Hi Agartta, nice flower. Glad to see your plants starting to flower. Still waiting to see your pale pink flower bud open :)

As for the bud that Pete calls shredded, it is what the rest of us here on the forum have referred to as "split flower buds". Pete says he has one that is doing that....well so do I. It really is a strange phenomenon that none of us here on the forum have been able to understand or rectify properly. It seems to mainly affect double/triple flowers. Sometimes the flowers rectify themselves during the flowering season and sometimes they don't. As Pete says, it is puzzling.

We have one that had split flowers last year and seems to be destined to repeat the split flowers this year too. (It did not have split flowers in the first year of flowering) It has me baffled. As my husband and I have grown lots of plants in the 15+ yrs we have been growing desert roses....I just have to say, we have only experienced this in the last few years - never before that. We have wondered if this plant needs extra fertiliser to help it flower properly and if our rain ever goes away, we will try feeding this plant extra fertiliser this year to see if it improves flowering without splits. Will be interesting to see if it makes any difference :)

The split flower

after 2 days

Stunning

Another bloomer ready

Before

And after

Nice

Just beautiful Agartta!

The plants today

The green house is working wonders for you good to see you are growing more than just plain old pink:×)

Wow check this out

From this :

To this ---->>>>

The Happy Trio

Nice flowers well done love the white one and the ok love m all

I would have never suspected that underneath that light pinkish wrapper was such a strikingly colored flower. A lesson learned, not to judge a flower before it opens!!! Would love one like that!

Agartta, Oh My God, Beautiful, spectacular. I have been waiting to see this one bloom. you must be soooo pleased. Wow, who would have thought that this pale pink bud was hiding something so unique. Enjoy your beautiful flower. Thanks for updating the photos :)

I just typed a message here and it all went away....Oh well.

All 3 are Beautiful. I think the greenhouse helps....even here in southeast Texas, the ones in the greenhouse bloom so much better.

Way to go Agartta!

Happy Gardening, Jeannie :)

Thanks all, yes I had a surprise when I opened the green house and seen the beautiful buds opened. All I could say was " Woow" lol

This is the original photo of the grafted plant advertised;

And this is my bloom;

The blooms today

Stunning, congrats!

More bloomsin the greenhouse;

This grafted Adenium was supposed to be Purple flowers.

Nice again your collection has expanded well done.

Agartta, that greenhouse seems to be working well for you. Lovely flowers.

Rachel and Peter thankyou, I'm happy to have 4 plants to enjoy looking at. They seem to like the greenhouse, but tately the weather in Perth is warming up. Now, inside the small greenhouse, its like an oven even with the 2 little windows open. The last few days I had to roll up the door all day so they don't get too hot, especially the seedlings. I should have put the greenhouse in the shed, but then in winter its cold lol.

Pssst...a little secret.....I do like apple trees too ;-)

Wish i had the greenhouse now its been persisting down all day

Agartta, your greenhouse is fine where it is. Don't put it in the shed. Just keep the little door rolled up in Summer to let out the excess heat. When you get rain/storms, you can close the door again to keep them dry and that way you can control how much water they get. Your plants seem to be enjoying it in there, so don't worry.

That greenhouse will be a blessing through Winter. You will be able to keep the door closed through most of Winter, that way creating a warmer environment for your plants. You will probably find your plants will still have growth through Winter.

I had to make a shade cloth door to the greenhouse so the afternoon sun won't burn the seedlings. It gets very hot inside.

They can tolerate heat but if not watered enough they start to look dry leafed.

Here some of my plants

In the next photo the last grafted plant on right, advertised to have white blooms, well if has lots of dark red buds lol.

U r spoilt with choice lol so lucky to have rare imports and a nice tent the plants are rewarding u:×)

Agartta, good idea with the shade cloth. I spy some chubby little babies too. Your terracotta pots should work well for your Adeniums. Good work :)

Hi Rachel, yes some of the chubby babies are quite old 6 months old seedlings that got stunned by winter cold and stopped growing, now with warmer weather they started to fatten up rapidly. I like terracotta pots very much for Adenium. I like what Peter did too, painting the terracotta pots. I will paint some pots once I get the proper paint for swirl painting. The shade cloth to the greenhouse door keeps the insects out too. It's a good ideea.

More blooms

Wow nice

So beautiful! Great colors!- J

Agartta is your greenhouse 1.8x2.4x2

Peter - it is this one

https://www.bunnings.com.au/shelter-logic-1-8-x-2-4-x-2-0m-grow-it-greenhouse-with-shelving_p3321419

Ok thanks thats the one i was looking at

Wow....So many nice blooms!

Happy Gardening, Jeannie :)

Jeannie - I have more buds in different pots just ready to bust open. I think they love the greenhouse :-)

I also think they love the greenhouse. They seem to bloom more and I noticed that some start budding and bloom faster than others.

I'm wondering if I should add a fan to my greenhouse......it gets too dry in there. I have a screened door which my DH usually covers in winter (which we forgot to do last winter) with what he built the greenhouse with and there's 2 window on two different sides of the greenhouse. I got those spidermites with some Adeniums I got off Ebay and I'm so afraid of them coming back....they were a pain to get rid of!

Happy Gardening, Jeannie :)

Beautiful blooms. I’ve noticed that the first round of blooms after being in dormancy or on break in between flowering will result in split flowers.

Hi, Going back to split blooms I was told to put your old tea bag on them from your tea so I did it for 2 or 3 morning and no more splits I put some potash also on it I think it worked well

Today explosion of blooms in my greenhouse

Plenty more buds to bloom and plants. The seedlings grew extremely fast. They all love the greenhouse.

Gorgeous blooms! Such vibrant colors.

Man your collection has grown looking good :×)

Peter - yes they looking great. Im not buying any more adult plants, last 3 I bought from Bunnings were rescue ones. Can u believe RareImports is having a sale today and plenty of grafted plants all colors and yellow ones and .....Im not going. Last to weeks had the worst mechanic and vet bills. So unfortunately, I cant get any more plants for a while. I still have seeds from last year which Im germinating now. Also, I have seeds from mr Ko to plant as well so I have a great time playing with the babies :-)

Year Agartta i would love to buy some grafted plants but i have about 500 in all stages. most of my main plants are just starting to leaf out very slow start i don't know whats going on. cannot wait till i get the same greenhouse as yours i put an order in for santa to get me one.hope luck will turn around for u :×)

Today grafted Adeniums in the greenhouse.

Nice