Can this Adenium baby be saved? Another experiment.
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Adenium Help!!...I Need To Save My Plant.
Comments (6)I see from your page you live in Malasyia nice! Knock it out of it's pot. Wash off the old mix. Put it in the pot upright, prune the branches to a shape you like. You can lift about 1/3 of the base up out of the soil if you desire. Trim off any roots that are above ground. Fill pot with the mix of your choice. Water well. Put it in some bright shade and gradually move it to full sun. In your climate they are very forgiving. You can pretty much prune off as much as you like. I fertilize mine while actively growing if I remember. I am a plant rescuer myself. Got a big yard and think the more green the better. I've rescued some great plants from trash piles over the years. Some looked dead when rescued but with a little care wow!! Tally HO! Good luck with your new baby!...See MoreSaving Grafted Adenium...
Comments (2)Dobbers, Don't know much about Adenium, but I've grown some pachycaul plants (and I guess the Adenium Genius is out of the office)... I'd cauterize everything with Rootone (with the fungicide)or similar product, using hygienic instruments and lots of alcohol on cut-and-the-dusted surfaces after each cutting and before the dusting, ensuring that the only pieces you're saving are those with completely healthy tissue. I guess you're dealing with the usual problems of grafted plants, not enough sun and heat and too much water. I don't know nor care to speculate where the rot was introduced, but clearly you need some heat and sun, and bottom heat would help get the plant growing again. I have never grown anything on a graft but an Aztekium, and I remember said A. genius describing the problems of grafted plants (it takes an expert and not just anyone to make a successful one), but I hope these simple steps help....See MoreMy Twin Babies,Adenium Socotranum....Twin Tower and Stubby,3yrs old
Comments (207)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:...See MoreAdenium seedlings hydro experiment
Comments (40)I'm "Bob" I was using my partners account for this thread. My seedlings were looking really good they had all branched out by early Oct 2016 and were nice little fatties with round ping pong size caudex and 3-5 branches. Unfortunately i moved to a new place that had alot of property, but no room to grow indoors. I went on a trip to Florida and was afraid it was going to get too cold so I had a roommate bring them into a hoophouse that was on the property, with all the rest of my tender plants. The hoop house was unventilated and there were a couple days where the temps bounced back to the low to mid 90s, the hoop house temps got to around 115-120+ degrees F. The sap in all my adenium, plumerias, and dorstenias "boiled" and exploded. i was devistate when i came home to a bunch of boiled exploded plants. because of this I decided to start growing and collecting succulents that are cold hardy so I didnt have to do the succulent shuffle. after the trauma of loosing all my adeniums I stopped coming on the forum. I miss adeniums lots though and im planning a move to southern california partly so i can start growing plants that wont make it through my winters up here in north east california. About 80 percent of my motivation to move has to do with growing these plants year round outside. im hoping to be living down south by mid to end dec 2017. The peat plugs that they were started in, in the aerogarden were planted into pots and the adeniums were starting to establish real nice too. the only plants that survived the tragedy were four of my fockea edulis which started putting out new growth late in the spring 2017.. my fockeas even survived the winter with little protection since i thought they were just pots with soil in them. i thought they had died too. when i do start adenium seeds again it will be hydroponically. until then im growing lots of sempervivums,jovibarbas, aloes, haworthias and gasterias. ive also just started working a little with echeverias, but they still make me nervous that it might get too cold in the winter here for them. I took offsets from a friend who has them in her garden year round, and i akso planted mine into the ground, so they should be good with a light cover even with a short freeze. sorry I dont have them anymore to show pictures!...See MoreMarica 7 high Sierra's Ca 4,000ft
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