Ouch... where did you buy them, Dennis?

Gorgeous caudex by the way!

Just going from the Wikipedia averages in temp, Dennis, I strongly recommend you take the trouble of building a very gritty mix made of pumice, crushed granite and bark with all the fine particles sifted out. This way also, you will have absolute control of the nutrients the plant is going to get without worrying about ever over-watering the plant.

Sometimes I don't even other with granite and just use bark and pumice for my larger plants.

Pagan

Thank Rick ! I bought the isopropyl alcohol and a sharp knive set. I cleaned the roots with water so there is no old soil sticking on them tomorrow morning I'm going to cut the rotten parts and put cinnamon on the wounds and let them dry for a week out of the sun. For the draining mix i already have the ingredients so that's not going to a problem. Wen I'm going to put them in the new draining mix do I give them right away water and put them in the sun ?

@ Conny thanks for the complement I so happy with them ! I bought them from a bonsai collecter who wanted to lose som of his collection.

Thank Pegan ! I already put them out of the soil and cleaned them . Tomorrow I going to clean the rotten pieces.

This one and some others I repotted three weeks ago, I left them one week out of direct sunlight and after that week I gived them a little bit water and put them back in the sun. Now three weeks later they still don't showing new leafs or growth. I also have to say that we didn't had sunny weather the last weeks here in the Nederlands much clouds and rain. For the info they are standing in front of my window in side my house where it's like 22 decrease. Am I doing something wrong ? Do I still have to give them often water ?

I would water in right after potting it up. Filtered sunlight for. Week would be good, then increase amount of sun. Probably really depends on what each of us call full sun depending on where we live.

I use a transplant fertilizer on my plants when repotting or buying bare rooted plants.

Rick

Weather has been horrendous over here for the past few weeks indeed. Not the best for the seedlings in the window cills either, the little bit of sun today certainly had an instant effect, incredible.

Dennis: don't you feel like a kid on Sinterklaas' evening all over again when you uncover and clean the caudex of an adenium? :-) I love it!

Dennis, just follow Rick instructions, your plant will be fine.

I like and pink bloom, it's shape. Looks like a pointed star. Very pretty.

Marie

Dennis, follow Marie's instructions.

I wanted mine to leaf out so fast. They need time to adjust from the shock of reporting and surgery. They should grow but with us watching them so much, time seems to take for every.

I want to tank you all so much for the knowledge !!

Rick I'm going to follow your instructions. Hope we are going to get some full sun here for the other plants ! Transplant fertiliser I couldn't find here.

Little update

operation successful !

the thing is wen you start to cut a rotten part of the root you doing realise how far the rot already is even wen its seems only a little part is rotten

And here they are in the recovery room

That is so true about the extent of rot. Really do not know until you start cutting. This is why it is so important to get every bit and leave no biege marks in root. Must be clear white/cream.

Those plants of yours are so beautiful. They have some of the nicest caudex's on them. So Special.

Rick

Job well done by the looks of it Dennis! It seems that it wasn't so bad after all (at least not as bad as my one two weeks ago).

After a couple of ours you are seeing that the cut parts are starting to dry but in some cut parts you see a little hole, is that than still a soft part because of rot or is that normal ?

I saw your pictures Conny, I almost read the whole forum to find information. How is that plant doing ?

Dennis, It is hard to tell from photo's, but they look fine. The little indentation in the one root that I can see. Looks fine.

As long as you are confident that you got all rot of these roots and good healthy white/cream tissue was apparent. They should be fine. With the root cutting that you needed to do on them, is not aggressive and they should dry well.

There is no rush to replant. They can stay out of the soil for many weeks and still be fine. Better to take the time and have them heal really well.

Rick

Really great roots and caudex's. You can months from now look at you cuts. I have seen others cut a bit more to balance out the shape. For now you did good

They look like this when they are dry enough to plant back in the pot, Dennis.

Pagan

Thanks Pegan ! Under what circumstances you let them dryed ? I'm letting them dry inside my house where the temperature is always like 21 decrease