I purchased 3 bareroot euphorbias and 2 bare root adeniums. My questions are: do I plant them in dry medium or damp medium. Do I need to soak the roots or just plant them dry?






Euphorbia Ineris

I've never planted bare root succulents before.

When i repotted my own euphorbias(within a week after a certain event), i realized their roots were pretty wimpy. I went mineral on them, and they recovered. Cant say the same about the adenium, but a seedling did like the mineral+top dressing soil. And all were kept dry during 2 weeks after repot.

Do not soak the roots or water your plants right after you pot them up. Just give them a few days in their new location, maybe water to 50% completion after a week or so, and maybe start watering in earnest a week after that. The Adeniums may drop all their leaves and go dormant, in which case you want to back off on the water. That is a nice big medusa and you can look forward to fantastically fragrant flowers.

Thank you Stefan and Baja. I will be planting them up this weekend. I have plenty of cactus soil and pumice.

Love your new plants Frenchy! I will plant them first on the dry side using gritty and coarse mix. Be patient, it takes awhile for them to show signs of new growth. Just keep them warm and dry for now. As Baja said, that Adenium may eventually drop all those leaves, but it will grow new ones and that is your cue it can be watered.

Hopefully by mid Spring you can bring them out gradually to enjoy the outdoors too

Thank you tarev! I'll make the soil mix very gritty and well draining.