Is your plant positioned to receive at least 6 hours of strong sunlight every day?. Are you fertilizing your plant on a regular basis?. How often are you watering your plant?. If it is getting plenty of sun and heat, perhaps a thorough soaking at least once a week, if not twice, will prompt more flowers.. Florida heat, sun and fertilizer should be giving you blooms far more often.. Good luck!

I guess I'm not fertilizing it enough, but it rains so much here, the fertilizer just washes out. I don't have any place to put it where it won't be rained on constantly, and it doesn't get enough sun indoors. I'll try fertilizing it in the early morning, since the rain usually comes in the afternoon, but this has been a particularly rainy summer. I had to bring it inside once to let it dry out because I was afraid it would rot.

Can you mix into your potting media some systemic fertilizer to prevent fertilizer loss?.. I use time-release granules (10-30-10; high in phosphorus), for blooms and growth, as well as a weekly combined dose of liquid kelp and fish fertilizer.. So far so good with my collection.. I would not recommend orchid fertilizer (20-20-20) by the way, because I have seen some stunted and deformed leaves as a result. Also a salt build-up takes place. My advice is to stick with the other fertilizers and keep your fingers crossed for more flowers.

Can you create some kind of rain cover for your plants to prevent torrential downpours on your plants? A shade cloth over a trellis of some kind of description to reduce the water downput, perhaps?

I put a 3-month timed release 2-10-10 on it a couple of months ago, and I've watered it once with Miracle Gro Rose Food (18-24-15 with some minor elements). I'm sure all the timed-release is already gone with all this rain. I plan to get some bloom fertilizer soon, so I'll start it on that. It gets plenty of compost tea, as well. I was using regular Miracle Gro 15-30-15, but probably wasn't fertilizing it enough.

It seems like you are already being very attentive to your plant's fertilizer needs.. I read on this forum that Dynagro Bloom is quite good, too. Perhaps you can give that a trial run.. I would like to try it but haven't seen it in my local stores..

Someone else suggested that instead of pouring the fertilizer through, that I soak the plant once a month, since it's in a clay pot. She said that since it is a mature plant, and the pot is likely full of roots, it probably isn't absorbing much of the fertilizer, so if I soak it , it will likely get more of the fertilizer. She also suggested putting a little dishwashing liquid into the watering can, so it will stick to the soil. I'll see about it. It may just be that this one doesn't bloom much. Some of them don't.

I use Osmocote Plus, slow release fertilizer.

You should if the what I said above in Pagan and others posts, but pruning it when finished flowering will be a definite key in getting a nice new flush of blooms.

Rick

I vouch for the Dyna Gro Bloom. My poor plants are stuck in a NE facing patio with only a few hours of direct sun a day. Despite that, I've been getting pretty good blooms with Dyna Gro. Blooms are a combination of factors, ofcourse; but it's a great fertilizer to try. I ordered mine online.

Also, genetics can come in to play. I treat all of mine the same. Some bloom great. Some are stubborn as heck!

Pagan, thanks for that lengthy reply. I don't have any "full" sun, but mine gets as much as any of my sun plants. It gets sun from about 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. It got badly sunburned a few years back, so I try to turn it a lot to keep that from happening again.

I have no problem with water, living in Florida. I water in the dry season, but right now, I'm actually scared it's getting too much water, which is why I'm not repotting it until this insane rainy seaon is over.

Mine just doesn't branch a lot, only puts out usually puts out one branch per limb when I prune it back. I've tried constant pruning, but I think it's just a leggy species. Have no idea which one it is, because I grew it from seed given to me by a customer of mine at a garden center where I used to work. His was just a plain old ordinary white with red edge like the ones they sell at WalMart, and mine turned out to be red with a lighter red throat. A couple of them turned out to be pink so the mother plant definitely wasn't a stable hybrid. I was hoping for a white, but no luck.

Isn't DynaGro the same as Nutricote? I remember that a nursery man told me that the Dynamite products sold at Lowe's were the retail name for Nutricote. It sure looks like Nutricote. Don't know that it would be any better than any other timed release down here with the heat and the constant rain, since the main benefit of Nutricote was that it didn't release until the soil was 70 degrees or higher.

I've got liquid bloom fertilizer I'm going to try and I'll see about he Dyna-gro or Osmocote.

Dyna Gro is different I believe. https://dyna-gro.com/

With pruning, if you cut it just right where certain nodes are, it will encourage more branches. I think there's a diagram somewhere on here that shows the perfect node "setup" when cutting.

Interesting subject. I suspect that correct culture and the genetics that are bred into the cross may have a big influence on bud and flower production, and also blossom numbers....especially the number of flowers that will open all at once, and how long open blossoms stay on the plant.

It seems that Adenium breeders (I'm just guessing here) release plants for sale that are NOT perfected, and that would be culled under other circumstances due to bad genetics. I think if blossoms looks different, have novel, or new colors, have double/triple petal count, etc...in short, any plants that will sell, get released by major breeders. Nowhere have I ever read, or recall, on any Adenium breeder's sites, any Adenium forums, noted by any seller, that Adeniums were specifically bred for bud/flower count, flower substance, bud retention, for disease/insect/rot resistance, fertile blossoms...etc. I recall not one thread, at least I can't find them, that discuss the virtues of any particular cross or the progeny, resulting from that selected cross. Dimmitt comes close, with his breeding lines, but where are the Dimmitt plants, and where do you buy one?

Ko's seeds, and seeds from other noted breeders might produce some superior flowers, but what about the other important aspects of plant genetics that were mentioned above? It seems that when it comes to Adeniums, flowers are the goal, and little else matters. Are we just growing some inferior mongrels that have pretty flowers, and poetic names?

Just asking. Perhaps all the dogs, inferior plants, do in fact, go into the Adenium compost piles, before any selected and named Adenium hit the open market....but I don't know for sure if we are buying and growing the best of the bunch. My cynical guess is that motives for profit, allow some lousy plants, but, with nice flowers, to be released.

Frank

NYC/7b