Wow....please keep pictures coming.

Marie

Is that a crest we have there?

Gill

Looks like it could be.

Unless you have been experimenting with the Keike paste people having been testing?

Hope it is a crested for you. Quite interesting.

Rick

a halloween experiment gone terribly right ...

Sorry to crash this thread, but what's a crest?

Looks like lots of keiki paste have been applied. :)

No keiki paste...or paste of any kind ! Just regular feeding once a week at half strength with a fully balanced food.

Not even sure what keiki paste is...I had to look it up ! Ok...so if it's used mostly for orchids I definitely won't have any...really don't like those, and won't have them in the house...bit of a phobia... :(

The only thing I've done to it fairly recently (and to quite a few of my others) is cut some of the leaves off...and this is the only one that is doing this.

This particular plant is quite small and unassuming...I'll get a photo of the whole plant later today.

Nice, interesting crest growth there. Those leaf buds (except for the top crest) look so much like the "keiki leaf" buds that my adenium are having now :)

Wow, my first thought was keiki paste as well. Looks like it's going to be a very interesting plant, please keep posting updates on the development!

This is the plant...it's a seed grown one - Adenium Obesum "Belle Story". Seed germinated on 10/10/2012 (it took four days to germinate). I guess I should've wished it Happy Birthday yesterday !

The branch on the right is the one that looks a bit interesting - but the higher branch is doing things too. Pot is about 4" wide, to give an idea of its size - small and unassuming !

Cant wait to see the progress:)

This is what the plant looks like today...

Nice!

Cresting in general is fairly rare outside of a few species it happens to often.

A crested cactus is generally far more valuable because the trait is unique and generally not inheritable.

I've only seen maybe 2 or 3 other crested adeniums, (if this one does end up crested).

If you're lucky, it may flower along the entire growth, which looks spectacular.

Good luck!

Another update...it's still growing...

the term fasciation … rather than fascination … is fascinating. It happens fairly regularly in my hostas … but does not return (usually) the following year after the plant dies back for winter. It is more of an oddity, than rare … but it is considered remarkable. It is largely probably, hormonal related, but I suspect genetic instability, perhaps triggered by stress, which could be a recent prune, change in culture, or even change in ownership. hosta have been overrun by a TC market … and someone sees it every year and asks about it. to see it adenium, me thinks, without something to trip the genetic markers, is something …remarkable, and something to watch … very cool

an FYI fasciation link