Ok, the addiction has set in.....Now am the proud owner of 4 Adeniums. I grin, wife frowns and looks concerned.

We were in the mountains of NC earlier in the week, and made two more acquisitions. There were three really nice healthy plants on the discount rack at a grocery store, and I captured two of them. One is a grafted plant, and the other one has several buds.

I purchased the grafted plant because I have a plan for it in mind, and would appreciate some of you more experienced growers critique my plan for me.

Since the grafted plant is relatively small, it may have been grafted before it bloomed. The plant has 4 branches coming out of the graft, and 4 small branches and one very tall branch coming out of the Caudex.

My plan is to keep this plant in its present pot until it blooms. I want to see the blooms from the rootstock, and the grafted blooms before I do anything with it. If the rootstock blooms with nice blooms, I can either leave them or graft them onto another Caudex, and will have the original plant with what ever the graft produces for blooms. If the rootstock produces not so nice blooms, I can just remove the stems from it and continue with the grafted plant. Should by some chance I get really nice blooms from both rootstock and graft, I can trim up the branches from the rootstock and have a plant with two different kinds of blooms.

It just sounded like an interesting project to me. Comments?

I'm accustomed to dealing with orchids (approx.7 yrs polination to first bloom) where we could not do all these interesting things to them. I'm not sure I am going to know how to deal with these quick growing easy to graft...etc.etc. plants. It does sound like fun though.

Bill