Hi, Mike, and everyone else. Mike had a coop a while back where he had a lot of double purple plants 'left over'. I thought I was foolish at the time, but now I'm glad that I bought ten, or was that twenty? A bunch, anyway. They were fickle plants, dropping buds every time they got buds, but now, finally with some age and general strength, they are mostly blooming for me. I discovered they respond to more fertilizer than I give my other Adeniums.
I have recently learned a process of cutting open the flower with an exacto knife, moving the pollen, and then putting the flower back together again with tape, groan! I have gone nuts doing this! Every morning, there I am, chop chop chop. For the most part, I do so little damage that the taped-back-together flowers just go right on being in bloom, until they fall off as if they hadn't endured my attack.
Working with the Purple Rose, I have found they aren't all alike..Most are doubles, some are triple, and one so far is a quadruple, having four layers of petals, like a single flower inside a single inside a single and so on.
Hum. I thought they didn't all look identicle. The triple is a darker purple, and the double is a more fuschia colored purple. The double, when the flower is fully open, has a nice, distinctly yellow throat.
Just thought I'd share... And, no, I still haven't gotten a stinkin camera. I really miss having a camera!!!!
