He's a cutie..

Have fun watching it grow!!

Joe,

Nice plant w such good shape and what a deal of a price! Does it look like it is pruned out at center?

Nice branching starting on this plant. In a 3 1/2"pot?

Rick

Very cute.

Marie

Rick,

The center has been pruned and it is in a 4 inch pot.

Joe

What makes you think it's a clone?

I'll say it looks pretty good! Given how far north you are, you might want to repot it soon so that it can grow for the rest of the season without hindrance.

Dain,

I would think mass produced plants are from tissue culture. The time it takes to grow from seed and the bench space needed for mass production, for everyone involved to get their money, make a profit, and sell for $5.00 would lead me to believe its a clone. It's done that way with award winning orchids.

What size pot would you suggest when repotting?

Thanks, Joe

I have a Dimmitt clone and it doesn't have a caudex yet. So do clones make caudex's?

Nice buy

Joe, you could pot up into a 6" pot and let it develop a root system during the rest of summer.

Leave the soil on the roots and don't wash off.

I would repot at the same level also.

Rick

Rick, Thanks for the info. Question, leave the soil on the roots. I guess that means removing the old soil, but whatever clings to the roots leave and don't wash off. Pot up using my preferred mix.

Joe

Joe, I have actually read much on tissue culture in regards to adenium propagation, and it appears that it doesnt work very well. There are also lots of very expensive antimicrobials necessary. Even if it worked, maintaining sterility is just too much of a headache without a decent lab setup. The technique just isnt viable, so many use grafting to propagate a certain variety.

To me, this fella looks like it's got too much of a caudex to be anything other than seed grown.

Dain, Thanks for the reply. I thought they could be tissue cultured because of the mass production.

In 2001 I grew orchids from seed at home that were sown and grown in a sterile environment. You are right about the amount of work, I built a glove box and made a sterile agar medium with the use of a pressure cooker. I still have a few in my grow room. I know tissue cultured orchids are identical to the parent.

Good evening, Joe

Hi everyone, My first has been potted up and here is what it looks like, (only in the sun to take its picture). Now it will be in a shaded area for about a week. The old soil had a lot of sand in it, and now it is in a 50/50 mix of grow stone and coconut chunks. Thanks to all for the potting up information.

Good growing, Joe

So healthy looking.

I used growstone with fir bark and for my dry area I had to add a little core powder. It still drains quick but now hold a little moisture.

I am very skeptical it was from tissue culture. From seed they can grow larger than that in a year, much larger. Orchids are different , I suspect. Admittedly I know little about them. One seed pod from an adenium can have over a hundred seeds, like I said they are super vigorous. Easy to hybridize, amateurs on here do it.

Tissue culture plants I think should produce a caudex like a seed grown plant