Doris I use a time release fertilizer I get from Walmart called garden expert it seems to work really well I have tried others and this one works the best for me. Just a teaspoon for the smaller ones and about a tablespoon for the bigger ones and then I water normal.I have blooms on about 70% of mine right now.I am no expert just a learn as you go thing.
And your right they do love the heat! its a good thing because it been over 100 everyday and about 60 to 80% humidity here kinda like a rain forest. Speaking of that I took the grand kids to Moody Gardens in Galveston a couple of weeks ago and one of their features is a rain forest and I was walking around drooling on all of the neat plants when I came up on a plant that looked familiar then it dawned on me it was a Desert Rose. There was 2 of them and neither one looked real healthy I wanted to dig em up and take them home to doctor em up a little but my wife said they would probably frown on that. All the rest of the plants looked great but the DR's looked sick I don't think I'll be paying $45 dollars a person to go back and check on them though...Ron

Your adenium are great looking! I only have two but neither are blooming. I am sorry you all in Texas are not getting any rain. It is awful!!

Mine on the back patio



this is my varigated


And my seed pod

Marie - we have several blooming now and most have been blooming all summer. A friend in Fountain Hills says her's are not blooming either. I wonder why that is.







This one is ugly. Don't like the petals folding back.


This one folds back too, but not quite so bad

Mine aren't either but I love my plants...They are growing tho....

Harold, if you decide to get rid that ugly one's you say I'll be happy to have it. I don't have any since I lost every all of them earlier this year when my hoop-house collapse.

Better tie that seedpod shut or cover it with a bag, Dear Doris. Popt!!!! goes the seed!!!
Beautiful, all of them..

Harold - your 'ugly' ones are most likely crosses with a species called Adenium somalensis. They have the narrow leaves and the streaky blooms.

I like the backward petals.
Charlene I have wire around it

Great Doris.

Adenium co-op ending soon looking for some people want some purple rose or 1 yo seedlings The thread "Order thread for Adenium co-op" in Classifieds and Group Buys forum

you guys have lot of good looking blooms but who can't use just one more !!!

mike

Somalense crispum has folded flowers, and stripes. It's more difficult to keep, being prone to rot.

Here's a classic crispum flower, the one in the middle. Crispums give stripes to flowers that are crossed with obseums and others.

http://adenium.tucsoncactus.or...
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Sheesh, I sound high flying, hey?

I would love to get my hands on that Adenium crispum !! Love that flower!

Me also

I've named this little guy Egg.

very appropriate too Melissa

I sure miss sparring with Jim. Owell.

What's happened to Jim?? Not seen him forever????

Jim was very ill. Maybe we lost him but there's no way to tell what has happened. Internet friends disappear sometimes, boohoooo.
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We will have great memories of our JIM.