My babies...Adenium babies, that is...

9 years ago

I've been lurking here a long time, soaking up all the info. I love seeing everyone's photos.

A long time ago, I had a beautiful Adenium for a number of years until one winter night we lost power and thus no heat in the greenhouse. This spring I decided to start some Adenium seeds and ordered them from Orient Adenium. I planted them on March 20 and here they are now...

1) Midnight x Indigo Glaze

9 out of 10 seeds germinated, but one never developed true leaves, so I have 8 plants.

2) Sunset Dream

14 out of 15 seeds germinated

3) Silver Wing

13 out of 15 germinated, including one set of twins and one with yellowy leaves.

4) Grape Fairy

13 out of 15 germinated. These are much smaller growing and quite fat in proportion to their height. One of them is teeny with teeny needle like leaves.

I've been growing them under lights on a heating mat and so far, so good :-) Hope they continue to do well.

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Comments (5)

Hyn Patty, Western NC Mountains (USA)
9 years ago
They look great so far! I hope you get at least one purple from your first group. The percentages I'm told are very low on purples but you might get lucky. Might also not bloom with much if any purple in the first flowers so you may need to hold onto those and let them mature a while before you cull.

Like you I also got one here or there with yellow leaves and dwarfed. I also have several tiny fat seedlings with very petite leaves - they also branch nicely and are among some of my favorites. They are mostly my Kiseki seedlings but some are other things.

Keep up the excellent growing. They look healthy.
stupidlazydog CT zone 5b/6a thanked Hyn Patty, Western NC Mountains (USA)
Dain (Zone 5a, high NM Desert)
9 years ago
I am a big fan of single flowers and Grape Fairy is one that Ive been after. Last fall I planted some seeds from a different seller, that are somewhat similar. You might have to share one with me if mine don't turn out. ;-)

I look forward to the Indigo Glaze cross. Those are beautiful parent plants, I hope you get some great flowers out of those seedlings.

Make sure to keep us posted on their progress!
stupidlazydog CT zone 5b/6a thanked Dain (Zone 5a, high NM Desert)
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Dain (Zone 5a, high NM Desert)
9 years ago
And I just bought some seeds. I couldn't resist! I guess summer is here!
stupidlazydog CT zone 5b/6a
Original Author
9 years ago
Dain, that looks like a great cross! The Indigo Glaze seedlings I have are really nice... vigorous, chunky, and a lot of them are already starting to branch.

I love the Grape Fairy seedlings because they're so small and chubby. One of the Sunset Dream seedlings has somewhat mottled leaves and I'm thinking that it may be variegated. Either that or sick, lol, time will tell :-)
Lisa P
9 years ago
Oh wow, you have some healthy "babies"!!! And I think it's cool you won't have to wait forever for them to start blooming. Please post pictures when they do!