I haven't yet fertilized them, because I've only recently just purchased them. Which was about a week ago. I measured the 2nd pot and its diameter from the outside rim is 8" across, and its height from top to bottom is 6" tall. The inside depth is 5" deep. I also measured the height of my 1st Adenium, including the pot, and it's roughly 21" tall. And the decorative layer I have covering the soil it about 1", so the depth of the soil is only about 4" deep. You can see where the original soil line used to be, as I raised the caudex up only slightly from where it used to sit. I planned on raising it up a little bit higher, but decided not to just yet. I wanted the roots to fatten up and develop even further, after washing away all of the old soil and getting a better look at them.

I bought these wonderful "Aqua Flowers" that you place at the bottom of your pots before your repot your plants, and they work great. They hold the soil in place and let the water to drain freely. Which is great at preventing the soil from washing out of the drain hole and clogging up the attached drip tray. I also wrapped a few of the branches loosely together with some stretchable Miracle Gro garden tie tape, to help support them until they get stronger. It kind of blends in with the leaves and isn't very noticeable.

Pot size sounds good. I am trying the fabric pots. They may dry out to fast for my area. Everybody seems to like them.

I am using Dyna Gro 9-3-7 it doesn't have high nitrogen.

I am new so I was hoping someone would say what kind you big one is. It may be a arabicum but with the baseball shape it maybe something else or at least a cross.

Are the branches week or you just want to reshape them?

They're somewhat sturdy. It's just that my frisky kitten thought it would be fun to attack it, HaHa. He didn't break any of them, but I decided they'd need a little support as a precautionary measure. I never heard of the fabric pots before. They look like they're made of the same material as those "Aqua Flowers" I'm using to cover the drainage holes of these pots. Interesting.

These are the ones sold by Wal-Mart and grown by Costa Farms, so I'm pretty sure that they're Adenium obesum.

Just a cautionary word about pots with openings that are narrower than the body of the pot.....make sure the caudex/roots don't grow too large and fill the base of the pot, it makes it very difficult to remove through the smaller opening. Nice plant btw!

Gill UK

The rim is only slightly smaller. The caudex and roots have plenty of time before they fill up this pot. The roots weren't as substantial as I thought they'd be, though they were all still very healthy and in good shape. Which is why I barely raised up the entire plant when I repotted it. To give them plenty of time to grow before I go and repot it again later on. Which I presume will be long before the caudex has swollen to a size that's too large for this pot. I'm heading outside to repot my 2nd Adenium right now, while it's still light out. I'll share it as soon as I get it cleaned up and repotted. :)

Are you going to decorate with the roots on either of these?

The pot can break if it get to filled up. A lot of use you 4" to 6" tall pots and about 3" away from the caudex at the top of the pot.

Here is my 2nd Adenium, which has an unusual graft. My best guess is that the grafted section took hold, but then grew its own caudex and roots? Perhaps someone with more experience with these interesting plants can take a look and give me their own informed opinion? I rescued this Adenium off of the clearance rack. The only problem being its leaves were slightly sunburned. When I repotted it, I washed off all of the old soil and its roots were otherwise very healthy. This Adenium took up slightly more room than my 1st plant, seeing as how it now has two caudices.

In this photo, you can see where it was grafted, with the new caudex growing down on the far side. The darkened area of the roots is from being buried under the soil in its original pot...

In this next photo, I rotated the plant around to show the new caudex. It seems to be outgrowing the original...

There were a couple of tiny offshoots growing up from the original caudex, right at the location of the graft, but I trimmed them away. All of the other grafted Adeniums I looked at didn't have any growth that was similar to this.

Great plants. I,do like the pots and then stones on top.

I love how the caudex gets all narly. Bet it is doing neat things under ground. What you are doing they seem to like it.

I am in winter today.

The top decorative layer is broken shards of colored glass (not sharp), and crumbled sea shells that look like they've been tumbled until they were smooth to the touch. I like that the shells have that pearl-ish iridescence to them. I originally bought them for something else but never used them. When I repotted these plants, I thought the blue glass and broken shells would look good in contrast to the pink flowers, whenever they get around to blooming for me. I suspect the grafted plant to have red flowers, but I won't know for certain until they appear. I went to the floral department in Wal-Mart to see if I could find more of the decorative glass or shells and they didn't have any. Fortunately, I had enough for both pots.

Now both Adeniums are sitting outside on either side of the walkway leading up to my front porch, where they're getting bathed in direct sunlight all day long. Yesterday dumped a ton of rain on my location in buckets. So at least I know the fast draining soil mix is doing its job. I think that they turned out pretty well for being a couple of rescued plants from the clearance rack.

These are the only two Adeniums that I have so far. Now I'm already searching for other varieties to add to them, HaHa! :)