I am familiar with what you mean but I really can't tell you if adeniums will react the same way and develop roots. I actually failed at that slicing the bottom thing. But I'm about to try again.

You know. Boldness...and then, again, boldness.

Pagan

good luck. I'm going to wait a while before I start slicing and dicing my seedlings. maybe after I do a big sow in late winter, early spring. I do however like the anaconda techniques I found on you tube. I might try that one first. here are some seedlings I sowed on the Sept 26th. pictures taken Oct 2. my first sow of adenium arabicum. or any adeniums for that matter. sowed 50, 20 came up as of now. I don't really expect anymore to come up but we will see. I think I am going to sow several hundred come Jan or feb. I would like to try some bonsai techniques and get some grafting stock going. as well as all natural. I seem to lean more towards arabicum, somalenses, and multiflorum. I have a few of each right now. I really want to get some socotranum going though. saw some real beautiful ones on the forum. that's the planting media I used and I topped them with fine vermiculite. I've been doing a lot of seeds like that lately.

Mark Dimmitt, show air layering in his book. This of course is done with a older adenium and not a seedling. He does it the same as you would with a shrub or tree of other Genus.

Good way of securing a duplicate of a tree that you like. I would imagine that somewhat of a caudex would form over time.

Rick

Awesome, thanks for your response Rick.