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Potting help required!

Merry Christmas Everyone:)

I am new with plants and m loving it.

Well I m from Mumbai, India. The plant is kept outside the room window and it receives direct sun from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon and 2:00 p.m. till sunset. I don't move the plant at all. The day / nights temps are 32 / 22 C.

I used to water it wit liquid fertilisers 19-19-19 when i purchased it as it was a bit lanky. I used 1 tbsp of water soluble NPK in 1 litre of water. I watered the plant with it 2ce a week for a month and then staryed regular watering after the new leaves started. Then last week gave it DAP. DAP is Di Ammonium Phosphate. I got it from the nursery where they said that I could use 1 tbsp over the soil and the plants would bud.

The plant has been watered recently when the pic was taken. The pot is Ceramic and has about an inch diameter hole at its bottom. The soil is a mixture of soil and sand I suppose as this is what I got it in. I generally water it 2 to 3 times a week when the top 1 inch of the soil dries up. I water approx. 300 to 400 ml. And it just starts to drip out from the hole a bit.

I have 1 more adenium which is potted in a mixture of 90 % coco peat and 10 % garden soil. Is that mix fine for adenium? It has 2 drainage holes. I have noted that the coco peat takes almost a week to dry up while the 1 we were talking about earlier in this post just takes 2 days to dry n inch of potted soil.

Kindly bare with me for my queries.

Thanks for your help.

This is the other Adenium with white flowers I was talking to you about.

Top view of 2ND Adenium.

Kingly advise me on the potting medium so that I get rapid and healthy growth for my adenium.

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