Beautiful, Pagan. What a nice photo. When first looking at it, the bloom on the right reminded me of an Azalea flower. Veining in throat looks somewhat like a Pitch Fork.

Rick

Thanks, rick. This second seedling is also a much stronger bloomer--it has not dropped a single bud and I counted about 10 in that bunch.

The red one was much more tentative,,dropped the first two buds before the rest made it through. On the other hand, it's on its second cycle now. So much for my pruning plans.

One of the A. arabicum x crispum is also in bud.

Wow, what are you doing. A bit envious that mine are not blooming, but very happy that yours are. Many from Australia are showing blooms from their seed grown plants. Seed all came at same time and was divided up and sent out.

Super to see them, Pagan.

Rick

Pagan,very neat! I like the crispum traits of the flower. :-) How old is it?

Btw, a flower on my touchy adenium is almost mature. It's beginning to open...

All my Dimmit seedlings are 9 months old, martin. I'm not doing anything, just T5HOs, they're not even getting supplemental heating. They start budding in the basement then I bring them upstairs.

I think they're just bred from carefully-selected stock plants. Plus I haven't been experimenting with them. Just my regular care. They get pruned when unruly and that's it.

This made me decide not to start hand-pollinating until I get plants I know to be exceptionally vigorous.

I want a separate progression thread for that flower of yours, yo! It's a veritable saga now lol we're all vested.

Really nicely captured photo, Pagan! Something tells me you aren't using your cell phone for picture taking. I am so glad you posted this bloom again today especially with the snow arriving. Makes me want to start some Crispum seeds LOL. Although it doesn't take much for me. This baby definitely deserves a thread of her own.

Tracy

Crispum seeds are on my (Christmas) wishlist - as well as true socotranum seeds. ;-)

Very nice looking blooms you have Pagan (cough) :-)

I think A. crispum is the only plant in my wish list now. I'm tiding myself over with othonnas.

I can't get the hang of using my phone camera, Trace. Even with Open Camera, there is no manual setting. And no optical lens.

Thumb twiddling over this one; A. arabicum x crispum.

Pagan

Bonus shot---Ruffles' Autumn Joy from Rinoa

Isn't it funny how it turns cold and suddenly they are now all blooming? What is up with that?

Crispum for Christmas, that has a nice ring to it. I will be on the lookout for some plants or seed of this variety. I am gaining a large number of new contacts and resources in Thailand but this isn't really their specialty. Many resources for Thai Soco and Arabicum seeds. Exciting stuff. Just what I need to feed my insatiable seed sowing appetite. With my newfound resources I have also new places to sell seedlings! Then need to grow first, then sell.

Tracy

So this happened.

Oh okay, okay. It didn't "happen". I did it to my seedlings. I have moved my mesembs seedlings out of the lamp box so as pots moved around, I ended up with extra space on one of my heat mats.

The idea was to slice two seedlings and tape them together and see how it turns out, to wit:

It looked alright when looked at this way. As soon as I potted them up I realized I should have made bolder cuts. I'm undecided. On the one hand, it looks wimpy now but once raised, it will look better. On the other hand, I really feel like slicing a third off of each one.

Decisions, decisions. To be furthered!

Oh and FYI to everyone who has not seen yellow adeniums (I haven't, mine has not bloomed). Apparently, some of them have secrets. The one below is the back of Ruffles' "Autumn Joy" flower.

Pagan

Here is my yellow flowered Adenium Pagan. I say hack a third off each plant. Go big!

I agree. I can't wait to get home and chop that mother down.

What yellow is that? The autumn joy apparently has a pink behind.

Kanjana Yellow is the name. She is dormant at the moment.

Ahh, yes. Pagan is the reincarnation of Dr. Frankenstein, I presume? ;)

( I might just have to give it a try too )

Way to go big P! Can't wait to see if they grow entwined. Or may a pseudo-twin-tower! LOL

The name "Frankedenium" is already in use. Tracy got one named by Phil - or was it me?. ;-)

Great experiment!

Relax, frankendenium is a generic term for all mutilated, glued-in, taped, bolted (?! would that work? what if I used wooden screws?) adeniums.

They're going to grow fused rather than entwined, Trace. I tried wireless entwinement (lol english is so mutilatable) and sort of tangled two seedlings at the roots. After a whole growing season, they were leaning as far away from each other above the soil, to escape each other's shadow.

Hey does anyone have a really really dark plant? Is it dark purplish black too?

This is an Adenium arabicum dwarf black prince, knight or whatever it was:

But then, check out Dimmit's A. arabicum x hansoti. It's the darkest one on the entire bench. It's too far back on the shelf for me to reach and rotate to verify the ID; I'll check later. But I'm pretty sure it's arabicum x hansoti

I don't have any dark skinned plants except the one red skinned arabicum. I will be doing a closer inspection this weekend along with some more pruning etc. I will see what we can find.

Pagan did you see the update on my boron twins? They are what I would call entwined. I don't know how the smaller plant survives with no foliage to make food. Anyhow, the FrankenTwins, how bout it?!

Tracy