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Please Help My Grafted Adenium Plant

9 years ago

Hi all Adenium friends, hope you can give me some ideas how can I help this plant before any more damage sets it. I have been watching this plant for a while, I noticed It started to rot and go soggy from the top of one of the graft. I thought It will heal by itself, but seems that it keeps traveling down the graft. I really don't want to lose this plant as its a nice rare color hard to find.

I thought of cutting back the soggy bit but I'm not sure if its a good idea as we have winter in Australia and its about 41 Fahrenheit, 5C degree at night.








Any help ideas I appreciate.

Thanks.

Aggarta

Comments (25)

  • 9 years ago

    Make sure u cut off on an angle so it sheds water

    Agartta thanked Peter Newcastle Aust spider mite breeder
  • 9 years ago

    adenium don't really like it below 50 degrees F. Can you place it somewhere where it will be warmer?

    Otherwise, cut below the rot (at an angle) and seal the cut. Even a good wood glue would work. do NOT use gorilla glue …

    Mine overwinter in the spare bedroom, which we keep at about 62 F, unless we have company. I even have some (grafted ones) in the bathroom .. where my bladder can monitor them daily (or more often) ...

    Agartta thanked bragu_DSM 5
  • 9 years ago

    Thanks Peter and Bragu I will cut on an angle and get some superglue to seal. I will also bring it inside at night time. Its been raining here endless hope I finish my greenhouse soon. My plants are undercover but cold at night. The baby adeniums are in my spare room.

  • 9 years ago

    I cut quite a bit and still looks like it hasn't got the plain white flesh, got like a slight greish circle, didn't have superglue so I put B-6000 glue.

  • 9 years ago

    Maybe the Dingo ate your baby


  • 9 years ago
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    Agartta keep a close eye on the branch you may have to keep cutting.i left a little bit of grey on one of my plants and it traveled into the cortex i lost the plant it was a pink one i was going to use for root stock ,if you can take it back a little more. The rot travels inside the branch its to late when it becomes visible. Good luck. halfway you used the wrong accent

    Agartta thanked Peter Newcastle Aust spider mite breeder
  • 9 years ago

    cut way below the rot till the stem is green all the way through. And fast. Or you will lose it. I have been growing these plants for 19 years and lost only one. The same way cuz I waited to long.

    Agartta thanked abrahamx
  • 9 years ago

    Agartta I had this problem not long ago on one of my adeniums. Some blooms died and then they stuck onto the branch I didnt realise but when I got some rain the blooms went soggy and when I removed them I found a tiny bit of rot set in on tip of the branch barely noticable, wasn't even 3mm or dark and soggy yet but when I pinched off the tip I found more rot in the healthy looking branch. I ended up cutting off 10cm until I came to bright green stem because brown ring had traveled that far down!

    Agartta thanked Ben (Brisbane, Australia)
  • 9 years ago

    this is her after 5 weeks :-( its this weather were having started to warm up then it gets cold again plants dont know weather to stay dormant or grow new buds.

    Agartta thanked Ben (Brisbane, Australia)
  • 9 years ago

    Thanks all for the advice, I did cut another 3 cm off and this time it seemed mostly white flesh. I hope I wont lose the plant as it's a rare import grafted plant.

    Ben - your plant healed nicely, I would be happy with that result. I agree, the weather is weird right now here in WA too. like 0 degree one night and 19 degree and sun during day. Hope we wont lose any this winter. I only lost 1 seedling with root rot due to cold weather, but the rest I got are going strong.

  • 9 years ago

    Im glad u cut more off i have learnt the hard way but my plants that i lost are from that bodgy batch of seed i got from over your way all pink which he replaced with new seeds

  • 9 years ago

    Peter - I am worried not to lose the whole graft or even the root stock. Like it's been mentioned before, it can travel and you see signs when its too late :(

  • 9 years ago

    Can u put it in a window with sun it dont have to be full sun this time of the season just keep it out of the chill i have my sick ones in my shed window drying in a real dry potting mix of just coir and coarse perlite to stop root rot

  • 9 years ago

    I have window with not much sun, and the glass seems so cold, the plant is in the nursery inside overnight with the babies, I see how it goes, lucky it has two branches, at least I be left with one, I hope.

  • 9 years ago

    You could put a normal light bulb in with the baby's to heat them up and your sick plant. i had a box wooden box with a light in it i use to put sick birds in to warm them up i have used this technique on DR it seem to dry the plant out any way it seems that u have it under control good luck

    Agartta thanked Peter Newcastle Aust spider mite breeder
  • 9 years ago

    Agartta where did you get your very rare grafted plants from? If only we could get imported adenium's. Has anyone ever looked into importing from thailand or somewhere?

  • 9 years ago

    Ben the plant was purchased from rare imports .why don't u look into it and i will be a very good customer

  • 9 years ago

    Haha yes I will take advantage of your need to aquire non pink flowers and charge exorbitant prices to you all!!!! Lol

  • 9 years ago

    If Rare Imports can do it why cant we? ;-)

  • 9 years ago

    I will read it later thanks

  • 9 years ago

    Ben - thats an interesting article. Yes , all my grafted plants comes from RareImports, they get them from Thailand. For me its cheaper to drive 30 min to RareImports as they are based in WA. I did look at importing myself, but, the treatment of plants and permit cost too much. Also, I spoke to the owner few weeks ago, he told me the whole shippment container of Adenium got destroyed as they found 1 sick plant, they didnt treat the single plant they destroyed all, he wasn't happy. So I think its risky to import, especially in the WA where they have tough importing laws. I think I'm lucky living 30 min drive from RareImports nursery :)


  • 9 years ago

    Orrr rub it in ouch

  • 9 years ago

    :P