mikerno_,

What type of soil is it in?

How much sun and for how long?

Using any fertilizer?

They can bloom as early as 4-5 months., but 1 - 2 years is not unusual to get blooms.

Good sunlight, heat and light fertilizing help with strong plants and aid in blooming. There is not too much you can do to speed the blooming up if these are all given.

Blooming time would be anywhere from May - Sept/Oct. also depending on your climate.

Rick

Right on, with everything Rick said. I'll just add it is also not unusual for these plants to take their royal time, especially in less than ideal conditions.

I have 4-year old seed-grown plants that I have deliberately kept stunted by growing them really hard---exclusively rain-fed in summer, rarely fertilized and I keep them cold in winter. They are nice and compact as I intend them to be but they don't bloom either.

Pagan

Do you have any pics? It helps us to see what your plant is doing When was the last time you transplanted it?

Oh Pagan, you treat yours like they're in a concentration camp, and I treat mine like they're at the Ritz. Well, maybe the pool at the Ritz..

Lol @ Jerry comments re Pagans plants! I couldn't agree more!

Think that was the trouble with my three as they've taken 5 years to get their first bloom and a further 3 to get ones that grew big enough to stay attached to the plant and then open fully :-/ Once I got the fertiliser sorted out they have had their best season this year having put on more growth with lots of lovely healthy leaves. I didn't mind them staying on the small side as they're more manageable having to live indoors permanently. So I would say that mine have also been 'grown hard' as we say, not neglected in any way as I treasure them if that makes any sense, but certainly not pampered. Grown hard partly due to the climate here and the fact I didn't push them with growth inducing ferts and water to get them to grow big, I wanted them small and more compact.

As pointed out, a lot depends on the conditions you are able to provide, ferts, water, light, soil mix and temp all play crucial parts...get just one or a combo wrong and things don't work out as well as we hope.

Please do post some pics as they are very helpful....and nice to look at!

Gill

Hey every one)

Here are some pics of it. I will come back later and address the questions since I am late for work. Much appreciated.

It;s about a foot high. I keep it in full sun. It's fertilized every time I water with Foliage Pro. It's in a gritty type mix and I water almost every day when it's in the hot sun and back off as it gets cooler and daylight gets shorter..

I'll will be back later today)

Mike

I was wondering if I'm doing at least ok?

You're doing fine, Mike. It's very cold up there and your growing season is very short. So it may be taking longer for the plant to get into the zone, so to speak. Next spring, though, or right now if you want to be daring, consider pruning that tree. Sometimes this shocks them into blooming. At the very least it will encourage branching.

Did that sound uncharacteristically gentle? Okay, try this:

Give 'er a whack with a cleaver, yo! Hack 'er down, that'll learn 'er to spew some flowers, the brat. We're breeding ultra-marathoners here, not coloratura sopranos!

Have fun with that, Jerry lol

Pagan

Yikes!! Do you mean cut it;s head off?? How far down? lol

Thanks for help

On the stem you will see little side ways moons or nodes. You can cut leaving just a few nodes all the way down near the caudex. These are old leaf spots or nodes. It will force it to leaf out several stems or branches. So people prune every year for more low branches or a second bloom.

When it starts getting cool nights below 50 you must bring it in side. It needs all the sun it can get to re-sprout for now,

Some like it tall so only cut say half way down the stalk. Ask if you need more help

Pagan is having a strange speaking week, so funny...........

Mike, if she were mine, I'd probably cut the top at about the point where it starts to bend. I believe you could easily create a mini tree form from that, combined with raising over the years.

Oh my...Your serious aren't you? lol Um, would now be a good time since it's coming back in soon or next spring? Your too funny..I already like you..)

When do your temps usually change? Do you plant to with or without lights this winter?

You can cut it at any length. We all get be to nervous when we have to surgery to get a shape we want and more branching for more flowers.

You bet Pagan is serious, Mike! She'll have your adenium more pumped up than a Soviet era female weightlifter!

I do prune my adeniums even in winter if they look annoying. BUT--and this is a big but--I can do this because I maintain a near-tropical habitat in my office in winter and I provide them with bottom heating and supplemental lighting.

I also have so few adeniums (26 plants at last count) that I know each of them individually. I can roughly predict how they will react to abuse.

Since you know your plant, only you can know whether it will freak out if you pruned it now. If you are able to keep it warm and well-lit, I think you can do it now. But if it will spend winter on a window sill with no bottom heating or supplement lighting, you should probably wait.

In fact, most of my adenium experiments happen in winter because I keep some of them in my office, they're on a desk and right above the drawer where I keep my plant surgery tools lol So convenient.

Pagan

Pagan...You give a good laugh ol Did you even give your plants personal names? If so, then I can bet you certainly do know them than most people..You are right, they will be sitting on a window sill in a sunny spot then allowed to almost not to grow at all as winter sets in and the window sill area gets cold..Arg. Maybe I should think about keeping them out of the colder window and under warm lights...That sounds like a great idea...Till then I will wait until spring and cut then. When I do I will be back for further encouragement...

I love Jedoba's description..lol

Marcia great questions and encouragement...Thank you I'm reconsidering how to maintain it all winter..I'm thinking lights and warmer temps..I should keep it actively growing like they do in greenhouses...Good idea..