Martin,

Marie has been storing her plants in the garage for a number of years now and also a friend of hers. She hopefully will see this note.

A friend in Africa where the plants need to be taken in, puts his in the garage, but left in the pots.

Rick

Thanks for the replies!

You see, I have too many adeniums and other plants already filling up my windowsills. And outside are even more! So the ones I plan to sell will be stored bare root wrapped in newspaper in a box. They will just have to manage 4-6 months on their own. Adjust or die. The Pagan Way of growing adeniums. ;-)

Hi Martin I also have too many adeniums can't beleave I just said that :) Ive had them inside for the last 4 months at about 15c some receiving a couple of hours of sunlight but most no direct sun only 150-200 on my light meter, I keeped them in there pots and watered them lightly a couple of times on sunnydays just to stop them from dehydrating to much, that seamed to work for me whereas the ones I depotted all suffered dehydration even the ones I desided to repot a month ago have gone a little soft now probably should have waited untill they dropped the dormancy and started to grow again good luck with your babies

I left several of mine potted in bone-dry media last year in my garage. The only damage was tip rot on several of them. I don't plan to do that again, and bare-rooting them scares me even more.

There is a lot of talk that w storing like this that the tip rot is a result of being too dry. Might mean a light misting periodically?

Rick

I had not heard, but they were totally dry. I didn't even look at them too hard.

They all had some damage, but just the tips.

Thanks, Rick.

Was it rot or just dead tips? Dead stems or tips are caused by too low temps. But normally the tree heals itself by self-pruning the dead branches.

High humidity and low temps will do that. So if you have a place protected from humidity fluctuations (which does happen in winter) and stay above 10°C but no warmer than around 15°C, that will be fine.

I suspect, though never really tested myself, it will be better to dump them all in open boxes so they will also air out. Even when allowed to dry out of the pot, plants will continue to transpire. Kept in a closed box, the relative humidity could still rise and then you'll have fungus issues. My winter storage for unpotted adeniums are just open boxes.

Or just to cover all bases, you could also treat them with desiccants like cinnamon powder or sulfur.

Or, treat them like I treat my hand planes. Put actual bags of synthetic desiccants in the box if you really want to seal them in to save space.

Pagan

That would have to be what happened Martin. I just checked, and last years low was 40 here. I had thought that the unheated garage would be sufficient if dry enough.

I would say that the tips died. They were just soft empty husks, and fell off when I touched them. The stems below that point were healthy.

I think in an open box would do them much better than wrapped in newspaper which absorbs the moisture.

Tracy

well, i stuck all of mine, potted, in a spare aquarium in the extra bedroom and turned off the heat. i didn't water enough, and several just dried up. if you hang them and let them dry, you could just string em across the wall, but label them ...