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

I've come late to the party, but thought I'd post anyway... I bought a jicama from the store which sprouted two vines off the top when I left it too long. I decided to try to plant it just to see what would happen. Although I cannot yet report back on any progress because it's only just happened, I thought I would pass along some information I got from a very nice man who grew up in the countryside in Mexico where people commonly grow jicama plants. My largely forgotten high school Spanish didn't permit me to understand everything he said, but here's the gist of it: He said I should cut the jicama in half and only plant the top of the tuber with the vines coming off of it - in other words use only the tuber's "northern hemisphere". You want loose soil that will allow the tubers to form easily. The vines should not be trellised unless you want an ornamental vine and no jicamas. If you actually want to harvest some tubers you need to bury the vine in the ground. Examine the vines and you'll see that every so often there are buds which you should leave uncovered. The plain stems between those buds should be covered with earth and they will sprout roots and tubers. Note: these should not be regarded as separate plants. Everything should be left connected together. Those buds will sprout leaves to feed the plant, and you just keep burying the new vining parts as they appear. It sounded like this would take up a fair amount of ground space. He was also saying something about circles and digging trenches to water the plants, but try as I might I couldn't quite make sense of it. He might have meant planting the jicama in a mound of earth and training the vines out from the center in circles... or something. Best of luck to all of us in our jicama endeavors!

Thank you for the compliment, Rick. I felt the need to find the perfect pot for all 3 plants before I could pot them, if that makes any sense at all. I am looking forward to seeing them respond with new growth. Next weekend I will be repotting some of my 16 week old A. obesum and A. arabicum seedlings. Some of the multiple plants that we found in Florida gave me a couple of ideas with the repots. I would like to try potting up some juveniles together and train them to form unique duos and trios. If I use 3 different cultivars then come blooming time, if I am lucky there will be 3 different types of flowers on them too. Just an idea...perhaps it will be good material to start a new thread. Tracy

Hi Jeet, shedding of leaves is normal for adeniums in December. Don't worry the leaves will come back in Feburary when its warmer. HU-268061511, you can login to facebook and there are many sellers from India selling adenium plants. You could join some cactus and succulents net market India group on facebook and receive regular updates from online fb sellers of adenium plants. Though initially I did spend a small fortune on buying these from nursery, I found fb to be a better and cheaper option especially for seedlings and small plants. Hope this helps!