this is picture I took of my cut back plant...

Pretty, pretty!

Oh, Thank you. Yours are too....

It seems the rule to really cut these seriously back! You cut once a year?

RobertB

this was my first year. They were so long and stragly, I couldn't stand it.
My problem is getting them to bloom. I don't know what I'm doing wrong. No blooms....:-((

It looks healthy and I love the caudex. I found that mine bloom like crazy if I keep enough full sun on them... at least 6 hours a day. I mix a little bloom booster with water and drizzle a bit around the caudex once a week.

RobertB

yep sun and fertilizer works every time.

I do fine some of mine push flowers in cycles but sun and food = healthy plant healthy plants show off!!!you will get their and if not you did a great job and we will start to figure out why. Melissa suggests a 1-2-3- formula like A 10-20-30 first is nitro for foliage 2nd is blooms most part and 3rd roots basic. I fine i use 2 different i tend to use a 15-30-15 during heat of summer an all my blooming plants and 13-13-13 or 6-6-6- they rest of year. Over in the other group we are in those guyes preach no synthetic fert, any time use manure chix is there preference!! just keep the faith!!1

i truely love this one and would considering buying just for the great caudex

mike

Yes, Charleen, fertilizer and sunshine. If your plants aren't in direct sun, move them slowly, one hour at noon the first day, two hours of noonday sun the next day, then maybe five hours, then full sun.

When they're actively growing new leaves, they can handle generous watering and feeding.

I've bought several Adeniums for the caudex. This one grew on me, one of JT's plants! It's in a plastic pot saucer with just gravel and a tiny biy of compost. Lots of drain holes.

WOW thats a great find Melissa i love it

JT sent me two small plants what? Three years ago? This one is an arabicum, and has a fatter caudex naturally than an obseum. The flowers are teenie tiny, and I love them! Blooming more generously as the plant ages.

I'm going to have to edit to say what this photo is!---- Oh, I thought more of a caudex image. But you can what is more like an obseum caudex, fuzzy in the background...

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I love the looks of that one also... I need to find out who is this JT??
I like the ones with the tiny flowers...looks so...tribal..


RobertB

JT is a very good man to know. He was very instrumental in us getting addicted.

AND NO ITS NOT ME BEFORE any newbies ask...

It did cross my mind....




RobertB

I think it crossed all our minds Robert

Robert By the way this wise guy Wil(with one L) smith92 is my partner He used to be on giving updates on my surgery and i think monitoring my buying and selling but he gave up could not keep up with (what some one called me) the co-op King

Hello Wil!
Mike is definitely an enabler of plant buying here..


RobertB

Yeah...sadly I haven't been able to locate a "Plants Anonymous" program anywhere near here.