nice one stuart..

I am not finished yet with this post , too busy with work.

Nice one too JP, how old is your plant?

I have a bunch of S1+Chada, and the bottom of the leaves are sooooo luxurious w/ that velvet fuzz. This is one from you Jericson.

Nice Rob. How old is it?

Hi Stuart.

This one is about 7 1/2 months.

I'm running out of room, but I'm getting ready to plant 80 more.

stuart my CP was planted 8.6.15

thats a lot of seeds rob you gonna be a busy guy this coming summer lol.

I've been talking to a couple of local nurseries about buying some of the already 80+ plants I currently have growing, because I'm already a busy guy. In fact I'm doing some transplants right now. lol

Rob

Rob. It's looking good for 7 1/2 months. It will be soon like JP plant

I think my "Golden Bells", "Emerald Crowns" and "Black Hawks" are the fattest.

Rob

Two years old now.

Love the look great work

The last one potted up Today.

Hi Stuhenhof(11), how they're blooming? I love compact plants with big blooms. Polina.

Thank you, they're beautiful!!

Rob - the white one has curly leaves?

Rob. The first plant is grafted with chada peth? And the second one a chada peth with white flower?

Mr Ko is selling arabicum seeds with white flowers.

Any bugs ID?

Stuart, that's a scary looking bug....Could this be your bug??????

Assassion bug or Milkweed Assassion bug????

Assassion bugs do not feed on plants, but hide on plants to find their prey. They get their name from paralysing their prey and then sucking the juice/life out of them.

***Their bite is said to be an extremely painful/burning sensation for humans, so if this is your bug....be careful not to let them bite you.***

Btw, nice plants....Yours too Rob.

Rachel. I am not sure but this is very scary!!!

I will leave them on the plant but i will be very careful.

Thanks for the warning.

Stuart, I am not a bug expert, but I saw these critters on the Internet and thought they looked similar to yours. I have not seen these bugs here in Australia. Probably wouldn't hurt for you to do a search on the Internet to try and identify what you have there, particularly because they look like they're laying eggs on your plant. :(

Hi everyone,

Sorry I haven't posted lately, But I too am battling a pest problem (spider mites); at the same time I'm remodeling/overhauling my grow set up's.

Stuart - I know there are several types of bugs titled as "Assassin", which are all notorious for specializing in their prowess for wiping out different sorts of pest insects. From your pics; it appears they're laying eggs, but I can also see evidence of spider mites (webbing, eggs, and mites themselves). Keep an eye on that. When it gets to the point where you can see mite webbing, that means they're already at formidable numbers.

https://greenmethods.com/spider-mites/

Agartta, Stuart - For reasons unknown, I have a handful of plant's w/ curled leaves.

Actually, neither of those plants are "chada petch". I posted those because of "1bl's" comment; saying she liked compact plant's w/ blooms.

(12/4) S1 + chada

I just zoomed in on that pic (above) in my library, and if you look closely, you can see spider mites on the underside of the leaf pointing towards the camera.

Rob

Eagle eye rob i have been fighting them all arvo on my seedlings they have devastated them i had the seedlings underneath shade cloth i couldn't see them man im not happy:×(

Yes i have Spider mites but i am spraying them with water and maybe the bugs are helping me to fight them.

1beautylover2012, the first real chada peth flower. It had a few times buds before but every time the plant was dropping the buds.

Hi everyone,

It's been a while, I've been busy.

It's Winter here; and I was losing the spider mite battle. Evidently they were developing an resistance to the pesticides I was using (Safer Soap, Neem Oil 70%, Bayer 3in1). With the weather being cold outdoors, it's hard to spray a large number of plants inside, so in the end, I gave about 98% of my Adeniums; a hard chop. I removed every leaf from all but a handful of plants, and it seems to have worked.

And on the plus side, all of my Adeniums are branching out nicely.

Spider mites mmmmmmmmmm dam things but on the up side that plant is going to be spectacular. :×)

Nice symmetric form Rob. I'm just washing the spider mites away with plenty water and it's working too

A second Chada Peth is blooming

Stuart, thank you for sharing! I bought seeds from Mr. Ko and they are growing now. In a few days I will post my questions to you guys as you know a lot and I am just a beginner.

Polina.

Hi Everyone, I am new to adeniums. Where did you get your Chada Petch seeds?

Welcome to the forum.

My seeds are from

http://www.adeniumcenter.com/index.html

Here are my Chada pets from seeds.

They are beautiful Stuart. Thank you.

After I saw your posts, I ordered some Chada Petch/Peth. Did you prune your plants to get the even branching? If so, how old were they. It also looks like you cut the root back in some of the photos? Is that correct?

Only a few from the second picture and they were two months old. After all I'm glad I didn't prune all of them