Hi Shang, welcome to the forum. (Your English and grammar is very good) Lots of advice & nice things to see and read here on this forum. You have done the right thing for your plant that has the rot, I am sure it will do well once it is ready to repot. Would love to see photos of your 18 grafted plants when you get them.

With the one you are root training - I assume you have covered the roots with some soil after you took the photo???

Rachel :)

Shang, that white flower is really pretty & I quite like the hollow left in the trunk. It looks like a tree you would find in a forest. :)

Hello, Shang!

Extending a very warm welcome to the forum. It appears you're well on your way to a healthy addiction.

Maria Elena

Welcome to the forum! You will find we are a great bunch of ppl from many locations, all willing to share our knowledge :-)

Your English and grammar is fine, trust me....I'm from the UK!

Gill

Forgot to mention, but as noted already.....

I too would most definitely cover those thin roots as they will just dry up if not in direct contact with the soil, but you can still leave the portion closest to the trunk exposed. In my opinion they need to be completely covered at least to where the cocktail stick is at the 5 o'clock position. They need moisture, darkness and soil all around them to stand any chance of fattening the portions you've positioned and left exposed and without those factors, I'm afraid they're doomed :-/

Rachel, I do love the hollow trunk as well. It gives the trunk characteristic of an old bonsai tree :)

Maria, I agreed with the healthy addiction. They are quickly taking over my back yard. LOL

Gill, Mother Nature used rain to cover up all the roots. This is the first rain in a couple of months.

Thank you all for the warm welcome and great suggestions.

And now please excuse me, I have to go check on my babies. :) They are multiplying faster than rabbit.

Welcome aboard, Shang! Glad to have you! I too LOVE the white one with the hole in the trunk. I've even gone so far as to dig a few holes in the side of some of my seedlings to see how the scarring looks on them as they get larger. *cough* But thenI'm a nut and always up to something strange. Sorry to hear about those rotting roots but you look like you are on top of it.

Patt, I might do the same to my seedlings too. Not sure what to do with them beside mad experiments. These little guys can take lot of beating and still survive. I saw one rotted 95% of the caidex and still survive. I might go buy it when my plants arrive. I will take a picture when I go to the nursery again.

Welcome to the forum Shang! More plants, yay! Can't wait to see! :)

Exactly, Shang. I didn't start 400 seedlings last summer just to keep them all upright and boring. I want to push them every which way and learn what their limits are and what I can get away with, and fine tune other things that we do with bonsai or succulents to see what works best with these. I also saw an AMAZING adenium bonsai that was all hollowed and rotted out and had gotten old and gnarly anyway. Looks like some kind of funky fairy house that is a living tree so I saved the photo.

Patty, if you have extra plants and willing to use them for experiments. You might want to look up a clip in YouTube titled Thu Choi Su Canh O Binh Duong. The clip is 19:40 minutes long and uploaded by Toan Nguyen Huu. They start to show the collection around 2 minutes into the clip. All his plants are stunning. Although, the clip is in Vietnamese, but you can look at his collection for idea and what you can do to the plants.

Sounds good. I'll look that up, thank you!

Update to me seedlings.

A variegated seedling pop up a few days ago. Most of them are putting out their first set of true leaves. The upside down seedlings are growing strong too.

I've seen people plant adenium and other plants upside down in hanging bottles before to make them curve around tightly. I've been considering trying it.

What is it that holding you back Hyn? Go for it so I can learn from the Pro. I have seen tomatoes grow upside down with great result. I will give it a try when I collect enough bottles.

Right now I have too much I need to get done. This is the big plant selling season before my summer heat so I'm packing and shipping like crazy. I'll have time to catch my breath later.

Selling season? Do you own a nursery? If so do you have a web catalog? I will support our members business if possible :)

I do but I am not offering any adeniums yet. I mostly grow geseriads. I hope to have some adeniums on there perhaps by late summer but next year is more likely. We are currently working to repair and put this house up for sale and move by autumn. Then I can build a proper greenhouse.

Right now I am practicing grafting named hybrids, working with roughly 400 adenium seedlings for bonsai, splicing, training, repotting, etc and will try my hand at my own hybridizing adeniums this summer. It'll take me a couple of years to get things really rolling and open to the public. There are USDA inspections and licensing, and I do shows. I do not ship outside of the USA for now but I should be able to provide phytosanitary inspection certificates for larger orders at a later date.

https://www.etsy.com/shop/orneryponystudio

To be able to do what we love is a dream come true. Hope you have great success with the plants business.

It not the best form but the flower opened today.

That is a beautiful bloom, looks like a pink rose.

Thanks Agartta. Due to the multiple layers petals, it always looks down when fully open.

Beautiful flower colour Shang. Reminds me of bubblegum candy. Must be really pretty when more flowers are open together.

Wow Shang, you are training an army of curly seedlings :)

Rachel, that plant plays death for over a year. It put out flowers due to it afraid that I thought it really dead and throw it away After the blooms I have to prune it and hope it becomes fuller.

Tan, I have to prepare for the worse. The cold weather in the US can be very cruel sometimes. It might wipes out my entire army.

The moment of truth :)

two of my grafts heal nicely. Please disregard the leave, it the only thing I found laying around to focus my camera.

It appears we have see pods.

Very good, Shang. This reminds me that I have a number of grafts I should check on tomorrow myself.