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My first trys at Adeniums

7 years ago

A bit long post, hope it's not too much.


After reading rhe threads in this forum and seeing the lovely photos, I jumped in with both feet. I went on eBay and purchased a grafted plant, a seedling plant, and 3 small, cheap seed lots. All purchases arrived on October 22 and I planted them up following what I thought was best advice gleaned from threads here. South window with heat mat and supplemental light added after about the second week.


Mixed success:


Seed germination was very poor and slow (Think I had them too wet and seed may have been old). Only 3 of 34 seeds sprouted into plants, but 3 more obviously tried and then died off. These 3 are now starting to put out first real leaves but slowly. After further intensive reading here, I decided to go the Mr. Ko route and got 4 sets from eBay and 4 direct from his store so I just planted the first of these last Monday and with pre soak and drier media, hope for better results.


Both plants are doing great. After a little over a month, both are showing green points of active growth with tiny leaf buds and I have started giving them a bit more water. Seemingly a success.


I have been asking questions over this time here, and maybe I've learned some things from all your kind answers. Surely hope I can learn to grow these fascinating plants.

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