More blooms today!

My new adeniums are just blooming wonderfully! I am enjoying them so much and still am amazed they kept their blooms even after uprotting and shipping.

Adenium Somalence

This one is just stunning! Adenium 'kiss me quick x red moonlight'

Beautiful blossoms, RR. How nice that they got there just in time to bloom.

Thanks Alberta..yes a truly special blessing.  I am reading up on how to hand pollinate these since I have 2 blooming the same time:)

Well I tried my hand at pollinating my adeniums..will just wait to see how it goes.

Beautifull!!

Those are beautiful RR! Those blooms take me to a far off tropical place.....

Thank you Ichigo...they are a tropical looking flowwr arent they:) However they are actually a desert plant..they are a succulent.

Bright and beautiful. I didn't actually know what an adenium WAS.

River Rock those are beautiful. What attractive blooms. Do the hummers or butterflies like them?

Their beautiful love the bottom picture.

((((((spider_lily))))) thanks honey..so good to see you posting. love ya friend.

sneezie thanks dear:)  I dont know about the hummers and butterflies..so far nothing has bothered the blooms that I have noticed but i dont watch all the time..these are the first adenium blooms I have had so its all new to me.

Bethie, thank you:)  Adeniums are wonderful plants with lots of differant flowers, leaf structures and caudex forms...they are a great plant.

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Bethie, thank you:)  Adeniums are wonderful plants with lots of differant flowers, leaf structures and caudex forms...they are a great plant.

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((((((spider_lily))))) thanks honey..so good to see you posting. love ya friend.

Was'nt on much last week my daughter and her hubby was here all week .They headed back to Florida Sunday.It was a short week flew by to fast.
 

In their native habitat, adeniums make nice trees/shrubs. I have 4 adult trees and 19 2 month old seedlings, not sure what colors they will be, I pollinated one flower on my pink adenium and got seed pods, they are just starting to dry. I'll have lots of baby adeniums.

Very nice and much the color of the flowers mine has as well, and I've been tempted to order a new one with even redder flowers perhaps , though I note it seem my source names the one pictured and the red flowered ones as two different species.  I od know there are more than one species of them, and I'd thought mine was 'obesum', though the catalog lists it as something else.  I've been surprised I've found it one of the easiest of my plants to keep and maintain yearound though it does go through shedding of leaves totally from time to time, depending mostly on whether it's getting enough bright light perhaps.  It's running a tad behind schedule this summer and is just starting to form flower buds for this years display!

Breathtaking,I lost so many plants last winter,that I have room for a few new ones.Perhaps one of these is in order.

Thank you sunny:) I would be happy to share with you, just let me know if you decise you would like it.

Hi RiverRock,

Did you purchase online, could you post the link?

I have about 11 seedlings of adeniums about 6 months old, they are the pink common type. But they do not grow beyond 2 inches, as they are stagnant. Las year I planted half the seeds in spring 2009, and the seedlings, after this stagnant point, began dying one by one after I put them inside for winter.

It is winter in my country (Argentina) now, but the rest of the seeds I planted them directly inside in automn 2010, the seeds were still viable, but I have them inside till spring, hope this time they will adapt to the change and survive. I peeped at one that my cat unberried, and it hasn´t much of a root, only one cm.

thanks, Laura

laura it is my guess that your seedlings did not actually die when you took them in for the winter. You see adeniums go dormant in the winter time. they loose all there leaves and even shrink their caudex some. During the winter they get very little water, only a tiny drink about once a month to keep them alive..I have heard of some growers that do not water at all in the winter.  Then in spring start a regular water schedule again and they leaf back out and start to grow again.  Adeniums are also good feeders they need fertilizing during the spring and summer months while they ar growing and blooming and leafing.

I did not buy mine online a very dear friend sent them to me as a gift. If you need help with your adeniums please feel free to PM me anytime and I will be glad to help you.

Mine didn't lose their leaves, actually my oldest one is 3 yrs old and its never lost its leaves completely. Mine even bloomed right after christmas.

Mine seems to ebb and flow completely in regards to the leaf shedding according to our local weather patterns, and it will flower for me in late fall land midwinter , should we get enough sunny days, after a long period of overcast weather for as little as two or three weeks, it then begins to shed though. and contrary to the notion that you must be stingy with watering , since they're succulents, mine do very well with a good watering once a week when indoors for the winter and as often as almost every day during hot weather, with never a problem of rot with mine.  However they can be very sensitive to over watering it's said with cooler temperatures, if they're in a cool greenhouse or room during the winter months!

The problem with your ideas there is tha you are not allowing your plants the dormancy time they need to live long and thrive. Plants not allowed to go dormant that need that dormancy do not live as long as ones that are allowed the normal natural dormancy they should have for their spieces. Yes they are very prone to rot if watered in the winter like that and I would never recommend it but even more so they need the natural dormncy time for this variety of plant.

I water often in the hot weather also since all mine are in full day sun for over 6 hours a day and it gets over 100 here at times and in the upper 90s many days in July and August. Everyone should judge the plants water needs according to their environment.

Adenium are summer growers and should rest in the winter.

Thanks for your reply.

When I bought the seeds on ebay, the instructions for growing said as you say, to let them go dormant in winter, but protecting them from too much cold on their first winter, and water only once or twice a month in that period, and that then, they may loose or yellow their leaves, and this dry winter period would make there caudex fat later on, as they would develope strong roots, so when the high watering began in spring, they would develope their caudex. I think they died, because they shrunk so much, wrinkled and bent, then lost all the leaves, turned brown, and never recovered, so they dissapeared surely dead, maybe my fault, overwatering in winter got them some fungus, maybe the change of place, but they all died in summer when I went on vacation, they werent very well, but didn´t resist the probable lack of water of my sister or mother in law, in charge of the plants, all the delicate ones never resist my vacations.... I suffer for that.

Also said to use a poor soil, sandy, not fertilize in winter, don´t remember what it said about summer, surely as you said, feed them then, as they were a completely different plant.

Yes that is right..however I want to add that I would never let seedlings under 6 months go through a winter this way. They are still to young to let them go without water that long and it may very well kill them.  They need to have some size and stability to them first.If I plant seeds after July 1st they will NOT go through a dormancy their first winter...I will let them grow their first year then put them in dormancy the following winter.  Now if I plant seeds in the early spring or during the winter then by the next winter tey should be ok to go through a dormancy, but you can judge that by how your seedlings ave grown. Small seedlings in small pots need water mor often then larger plants in larger pots.

Hope this helps...I will get to your PM also I ust have not felt to good today, but I did read it an I will responde.

Where do you get this information? Mine don't go dormant, and they do fine.

Smurf I looked this up.  It is one plant I do not have an interest in growing but I like to know about everything....  It appears that depending on which one you are growing they should or will go dormant regardless of conditions.......

"Adeniums must be grown in containers in climates with frost or cool, wet winters. Adenium obesum, A.swazicum, and some of their hybrids, can be kept active by maintaining night temperatures above 50F (10C). The other taxa will enter various degrees of dormancy in autumn regardless of conditions.

Recognizing dormancy is critical to a plant's survival. Not only does the timing and depth of dormancy vary among taxa, but individual plants (even of the same clone) vary with cultural conditions from year to year. Dormancy is often signalled by a sudden yellowing and dropping of most or all of the leaves. Some weeks before this occurs you may notice a significant decline in water consumption. Either of these events demands sharply reduced watering."

Very "odd" Aud, since they are desert plants. Cool wet conditions almost always kill adeniums.

Thank you Audwoman..very nice research you did...thank you for taking the time to post that..Adeniums are so wide ranged and have so many hybrids now..it really is an amazing plant.