Nice seedlings, Bunnygirl! I have always wondered about those peat pellets, let us know how they are absorbing water in about a month if you don't mind. We will have some fun later with attempted identification your caudex mixed group seedlings. Take many photos and post your progress. I am eager to see how the gritty mix bunch does as well. Did you use equal parts of all components or did you do the 5-1-1 mix?

Tracy

Well I planted the caudex seeds a couple weeks before the Adeniums in the gritty mix. I have not had to water the peat pellets since the original first watering to expand them and I have had to water the gritty mix once since the original watering at planting time so as long as the dome is on moisture seems to be retained. I used equal parts 1-1-1 for my gritty. I need to make more gritty mix but I killed my blender chopping up the bark (I could only find chunks that are way too big) so now I'm on the hunt for some smaller stuff before I can make more.

Your blender? OMG Bunnygirl that is the funniest thing I have heard all day! I too am suffering from pine bark mini-nuggets that are not mini enough. I finally thought that I found the right bag of pine bark and I got it home and it is way too big.

Tracy

Yeah. I read on here that someone else was using a blender to chop their bark - don't remember who though - and I got all excited. It worked for a while but then the bloody thing melted....and my excitement melted right along with it. Now I need to buy a new blender so I can make my smoothies and find a plan b for bark, although good news I think I may have found something else. I am currently consulting with Al about it. Man do I love Al....purely in a plutonic plant way of course.

Nice seedlings and it is nice to have new people share their plants. Finding the right stuff sometimes is a chore. I found both my last purchase of bark and Coconut chunks at Petsmart in the reptile section.

rick

Very nice. Welcome to the club.

I have some nice little seedling pots that didn't germinate. They are crying out for more seeds.

Bunnygurl I use a leaf blower one you can vacumn with works real good to make bark its better to get new vacumn bag so you don't get any dust .my wife has not missed her blender yet

They look great :) excited to see them grow. Where did you find seeds in Florida?

I got them off of ebay from a seller named exotic_cactus_collection. The Adeniums are from adeniumcenter and kingadenium. kenni_koala_seeds has some really cool stuff too for a great price from Australia. My favorite seller so far. I just ordered from kenni on weds and they were shipped yesterday so the waiting begins once more.

Thanks bunny. I'll look into them.

Woo hoo Bunnygurl. I am so glad you shared your photos of your seedlings. I just love seeing everyone's photos of their babies.

I'm looking forward to seeing progress photos. Thank you for sharing.

So a little update on my seeds. They haven't done too much yet as a) August probably isn't the best time to be planting them and b) we had some really crappy weather with lots of cloud, rain and wind. Got kinda chilly at times. I don't use grow lights so anything that happens is all natural up here in the great white north. First up a few pics of some seedlings.

Now we have the caudiciform seedlings. They are sprouting randomly and slowly. I haven't had many sprout yet. Either germination rate is a lot lower for such plants or they take a lot longer. It almost seems like adeniums sprout right before your eyes. Some pics of these little critters coming up. All were planted in peat pellets. When I get some more space I will try a round in gritty mix and see how that goes and if it makes any difference.

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Looks like your plan is working, Dave.
Bunnygurl welcome to the fold. Great-looking seedlings. I bet the first thing you do in the morning is check out what's new on the trays lol

Pagan

Gorgeous seedlings bunny, they look very happy.

They look terrific, Bunny

Welcome Girly Adenium Bunny. ;-) And good growing!

Ha ha Bunny.....you are going to be a busy adenium lover soon.

Marie

Welcome and get the market stall ready Bunny, looks like you could be in business pretty soon :)

Thank you everyone for the lovely comments. My Agave, Aloe and Mammillaria seeds mixes just arrived in the mail today. I seem to be overloading myself with seeds as what you see above is just a fraction of the Adenium seeds I have let alone everything else I have. I think I need 40 more seeds trays and a bigger house.

Bunnygurl, you are hilarious. Welcome to the world of seedaholics! Your seeds look beautiful and healthy. Glad you hopped over here to join us. Will be fun to watch the progress of your seeds.

just wait until they go off to college and wanna get married ...

They do say children are a six figure investment...seems I've planted the seeds for a busy future. :p

Well, a little...actually quite off topic but the weather here absolutely sucks - cold @ 3 degrees C, windy and raining (thank goodness everything is in gritty mix or they'd all be so waterlogged as it's been raining since the wee hours of the morning) - but this has given me a test run to see if everything fits on my one little shelving unit in front of the patio door for the winter. It does! Barely.

Thankfully they all fit.... for now. Good luck trying not to buy anything else. I think it's more likely that you'll be knocking walls out of the house for more window room. :)