Oh and this one, I dug out of the pot again this spring because it finally outgrew that one. Remember him from last summer?

Here is what it looked like underneath:

I'm keeping it in a shallow pot (about 10 cm deep), but a wider one this time.

Sigh....they grow so fast. It used to be this small.

Remember you guys, do not forget to document your seedlings!

Speaking of which, my Golden Bells:

More pics later in the week!

Pagan

Pagan, stunning flower!

Yes, I do remember the fatty. ;-) Nice one indeed. I also use shallow wide pots (made for cacti). I plan to grow all of my adeniums hard and keep them pot-bound...

Thanks, Martin! That was a phone cam so the flower looks slightly better in person. It lasted about a week too, under T5HOs. I can't wait to chop this plant up for grafting. It seriously needs pruning---it looks like an abnormally long slingshot.

Wide shallow pots are annoying to find where I am and when they are available, they are usually planters with no holes so I have to drill holes. Although I typically drill more drainage holes in every pot I get, anyway.

I think I only lost one plant this winter. I will probably lose more this spring, because temps are so erratic.

Pagan

Nice to see you back again Pagan, your plants are doing well :) yes, I also favour the shallow bowl types as opposed to regular flower pots.

Gill UK

Thanks, Gill! I was just admiring your grass too in that other thread. You should see the grass in my yard.

I've resorted to using actual soup bowls as pots because of the lack of non-boring options. I found this one in the kitchen department--it's plastic so it is easy to drill holes in and it is square-ish which I prefer.

More pics:This is my winter conjoining project. The rubberband and tape came off around January, after I was sure they were firmly attached to each other.

This below is one of my A. obesum x crispum. I have another one like this---tall and lanky with very little branching. Note that the internodes are still rather tight (about half a cm to a cm apart) so it is not etiolated. It's just its growth habit, almost volunteering to be harvested for grafting.

have fun this weekend!

Pagan

Pagan, they are all doing well, and are lovely.

A cat flossing its teeth, lol!

Thanks, Cynthia. This is also the first winter that I did not bother keeping my adeniums in a humidified room. As long as they were warm, it wasn't a problem. My bat plant was miserable though.

I'm digging out my oldest plants this year. I haven't looked at their roots in three years!

Beautiful plants. My Golden Bell seedlings don't look nearly as chubby as yours. Looking good.

Dain! That thing is the size of a barn! Mine are probably about an inch in diameter at the widest. If you are going to chop it, you should do it soon so it has time to grow over the...well...decapitation point. It looks super, though! Excellent work.

HWT, it's probably warm there now. Your GB will soon start to explode.

For my part, the freezing rain kept me indoors all day so I yanked my adults out of their pots.

And as long as I was looking at it, I dug out this young 'un too.

Pagan

Pagen, I read your blogg during a 10 hour train trip. It was a great read and I learned alot from it/you. Thanks for shareing. Nice looking adeniums and grafting!

So I just cleaned out that A. arabicum RCN and found several lava rocks that I apparently had embedded the last time I potted it.

The next part of this program is finding out if my biggest adenium is dying or not. It's complicated lol

Pagan

P.S. to Steffen: tak!

I know what went wrong with it, I'm just not sure whether I can fix it. Clue: if you look at it from the top straight down, you can see the damage on the trunk describes a circular pattern.

Pagan, oh no, this doesn't look good... :-(

Indeed, Martin. This is what death by LED burn looks like. Mea culpa. I parked it too close to the bulb and then..you know, forgot about it. The root base close to the substrate as well as underneath is perfectly healthy. The top grafts, as you can see, are equally sturdy and will probably survive being grafted onto something else, with no problem.

It's that [rabid expletive} middle that has zero tolerance for discomfort. Sigh..how so like human societies lol

Root check time! Pagan it is really nice to see your plants again after a long winter. Love the stripes on the first bloom. Sorry to see Hasseedee Red (pink) looking so tattered. The arabicum looks yummy it is so compact. Maybe its shift into the new pot will stress it into bloom, fingers crossed!

Tracy

You know, except for my Dimmit seedlings, none of my Ko plants have ever bloomed. This is one downside of growing them extremely hard. I do not mind this at all, but just a note for anyone who grow these plants for the bloomies.

Pagan

Pagan: Every time I check here for updates. I drool over Rinoa's bloom you have. I looked it up and your pic is much nicer then the one in Rinoa's catalog.

Wow! Pretty bloom on that Fancy Girl!

Look who the cat dragged in---Kirk!

Yes, another pink when it was supposed to be red. I think I am pinkursed.

Pagan

Pagan, never mind about the red. The pink flower is strikingly beautiful. You know, if you don't like it, you can always send it overseas to Copenhagen. Just a thought... ;-)

I would actually do that, Martin, if they didn't have to cross quarantine borders on their way to your house. Grafted seedling though---I like the base and caudex of this particular plant. Rinoa did something funky with it and they are all knotted up under the soil.

Pagan