Ylis said: The first of my Thai Socotranum S1 is blooming.

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You're doing great, I got buds on some of my arabicums last year but no flowers, my first 2 both opened today but the plants are 2 years old.

Those are adorable 🥰

kyle_fl said: You're doing great, I got buds on some of my arabicums last year but no flowers, my first 2 both opened today but the plants are 2 years old.

Thank you! I love how chonky yours are. I hope mine will chonk out more over the summer. But mostly, I'm happy that they have survived and that they are what they're supposed to be.

Those are 10x as big as my 2 year old plants!

purpleinopp said: Those are 10x as big as my 2 year old plants!

I have some that are tiny too. Although I have 2+ years old that are 15x taller As soon as I repotted them, they took off.

Isn't she lovely 🎶

I really want Good Luck at some point! Gorgeous, Gigi.

Keeping my fingers crossed that I can squeeze some seedpods out of these blooms. Some of her blooms are doubles and others are multi petals.

A couple of photos of mature root trained Adeniums at the Green Thumb Festival in St Petersburg Florida. I didn't even look at the prices.

Ylis said: Thank you! I love how chonky yours are. I hope mine will chonk out more over the summer. But mostly, I'm happy that they have survived and that they are what they're supposed to be.

It'll probably take off once it's large enough to move to a bigger pot.

The 6 plants in front are 1 year old arabicums.

These are all 2 years old.




The 2 year old plants were all about the size of the larger 1 year old plants when they went into gallon pots last year 😉

@wildbloomers those are beautiful root trained and tower Adeniums! I like them but I am too lazy to train any adeniums.

@kyle_fl you have some real beauties there. Yes, I am afraid to repot my seedlings they double and triple in size and height when I repot. So I have kept them in small pots until I see them with their first blooms. I do have some that seem to stay true miniature, even when I repot them. They bloom and still stay tiny.

Kyle if you like to experiment here is @Kaktus tutorial for root training. I might try them now that I have a lot of seedlings to play with.

The thread "Adenium root training" in Adeniums forum

@GigiAdeniumPlumeria
I appreciate you pointing out the thread, there's a lot of good information there. I don't really like the radial root look but the root over objects technique is intriguing .

You are you can have a lot of fun with them. I like the radial root but that is too stressful for me to cut the roots and try to revive them. I kill enough already without even trying I just grow them the normal way.

Here's today's blooms. This is Madame Violet but I think this is mislabeled. I've seen this bloom sold under a different name. This is a beautiful purple, probably the most desirable purple because it is two-tone, 2 blooms opened today, more blooms soon. I need to graft this as this is hard to find and I have no luck with cuttings.




Here's some blooming, sadly hubby accidentally knocked off my Vulcanus seedpod. I superglued it. Hopefully since it is almost ripe that the seeds will ripen and still be viable. I re-arranged, they are getting sunburned in full sun. I should have slowly moved them from shade to full sun.










On sad note, Borderexdenia got sunburned and showing rot. I grafted two cuttings to try to save it. One seedpod ripened but seeds are not plump and 2 more are almost ripe. Hope the seedpods remain viable since they are almost ripe. I will test the seeds on the one that just ripened.

@purpleinopp
for the 3 days ago - I can't believe I didn't see that

GigiAdeniumPlumeria said:
Here's some blooming, sadly hubby accidentally knocked off my Vulcanus seedpod. I superglued it. Hopefully since it is almost ripe that the seeds will ripen and still be viable. I re-arranged, they are getting sunburned in full sun. I should have slowly moved them from shade to full sun.

What a fantastic display!

Fingers crossed that the pod makes it.

This one is keeping the red colour and not shifting towards pink or purple. Second bud opened yesterday.

https://garden.org/thread/view...

Gigi, I love that first purple one above, it's an unusual color for an adenium and very pretty. And the group photo is a fantastic, like all the family together! But all very pretty.

Thank you both! This is first group that has showy blooms for now. I kept these in part shade for now since I hand pollinated some. I think the less sun they are exposed too after hand pollination, the longer the blooms and fertilization cycle. The better chance for seedpod.

The Madam Violet (two-tone purple) has a seedpod hopefully it will keep! I'm afraid to breathe on it. Good thing it didn't get hit with a broom 🧹 as it was 2 pots away from Vulcanus.