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May 9, 2014 4:48 PM CST
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Name: adam
hotsprings, AR (Zone 8b)
Region: Arkansas Cactus and Succulents Container Gardener Miniature Gardening Seed Starter Tropicals
I bought a desert rose I found at walmart.
Here are some pics of it bare root.




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And here's a pic of it in its new home.
Hurray!


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May 9, 2014 5:20 PM CST
Name: Cheryl
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Looking good! Walmart! Of all places! We never have DR at our Walmarts.
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May 9, 2014 6:49 PM CST
Name: Rick
Vancouver Island, Canada (Zone 8a)
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Adam, that is wonderful and nice caudex.
We would not find them here.
I have heard of some people finding them at Lowes in the U.S.. In fact a fella just got two beautiful pa,nts with the very thin 'Somalense' type leaf.
Wish we could find them like your and others.
Rick
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May 9, 2014 7:04 PM CST
Name: tarev
San Joaquin County, CA (Zone 9b)
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Lovely one Adam! Lovey dubby Like you, I got our first Adenium at Walmart - summer of 2010.
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May 10, 2014 10:06 AM CST
Thread OP
Name: adam
hotsprings, AR (Zone 8b)
Region: Arkansas Cactus and Succulents Container Gardener Miniature Gardening Seed Starter Tropicals
I wonder what the flowers will look like.
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May 12, 2014 10:45 AM CST
Name: Melissa E. Keyes
St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands
Zone 11+
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Hi, Adam!.. Welcome! This is your first Adenium? Oboy. The bloom might be similar to this ---- And, aha! I looked more closely to your photos, it looks like a grafted red with the root stock growing stems, so you will most likely have two colors. I say red because some of the leaves are reddish. Be sure to post photos when it does bloom!
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May 12, 2014 12:12 PM CST
Thread OP
Name: adam
hotsprings, AR (Zone 8b)
Region: Arkansas Cactus and Succulents Container Gardener Miniature Gardening Seed Starter Tropicals
This is not my first adenium. My first one is one I got at walmart last winter. I'm trying to save it I cut a bunch of the top off. I was watering it when it didn't have any leaves. *Blush* Then after unpotting it to check the roots I found out that some of the roots had rotted. So I cut away the rotted roots and dusted with cimmion and let it dry for about a week. Then I potted it up again and misting it.
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May 12, 2014 12:28 PM CST
Name: tarev
San Joaquin County, CA (Zone 9b)
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This is the Walmart Adenium I got in 2010:

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2012 bloom:
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Have repotted it twice and really love its caudex:
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Still waiting for it to wake up from its dormancy for this 2014...hopefully our mid to high 90's this week will jolt it awake! Hilarious!
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May 12, 2014 3:53 PM CST
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Name: adam
hotsprings, AR (Zone 8b)
Region: Arkansas Cactus and Succulents Container Gardener Miniature Gardening Seed Starter Tropicals
Melissa you got me thinking. So I took a closer look at it all 3 branches might be grafts.
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May 14, 2014 9:01 PM CST
Name: Robert B
Bradenton, Florida (Zone 9b)
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Tarev I love those caudex. What a greenthumb! Thumbs up Thumbs up Thumbs up

Adam I've found some great finds on the discount tables at Lowes and Wally World.
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Aug 8, 2014 7:38 AM CST
Thread OP
Name: adam
hotsprings, AR (Zone 8b)
Region: Arkansas Cactus and Succulents Container Gardener Miniature Gardening Seed Starter Tropicals
One of the two branchs that doesn't have the red leaves is beginning to form buds. Hurray!
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Aug 12, 2014 5:04 AM CST
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Here is my Walmart save from earlier this year.
Lonnie
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Aug 18, 2014 9:19 PM CST
Name: Robert B
Bradenton, Florida (Zone 9b)
Plumeria to trade!!!
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Lonnie, way cool! Hurray!
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Aug 19, 2014 5:35 AM CST
Name: Doris Klene
Greensburg,Indiana.
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I always check Wal-Mart but never find anything like that.
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Aug 23, 2014 12:29 PM CST
Thread OP
Name: adam
hotsprings, AR (Zone 8b)
Region: Arkansas Cactus and Succulents Container Gardener Miniature Gardening Seed Starter Tropicals
Here are some update pics.


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Aug 23, 2014 2:07 PM CST
Name: tarev
San Joaquin County, CA (Zone 9b)
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Looks so exciting Adam!!! Hurray! Hurray!
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Aug 25, 2014 9:50 AM CST
Thread OP
Name: adam
hotsprings, AR (Zone 8b)
Region: Arkansas Cactus and Succulents Container Gardener Miniature Gardening Seed Starter Tropicals
Here is a pic of the first flower to open. Hurray!

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Aug 25, 2014 11:14 AM CST
Name: Melissa E. Keyes
St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands
Zone 11+
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Very sweet flower Smiling
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Aug 25, 2014 5:47 PM CST
Name: tarev
San Joaquin County, CA (Zone 9b)
Give PEACE a chance!
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Pretty Preeeety!!! Hurray! Hurray!
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Aug 25, 2014 7:07 PM CST
Name: Deborah
midstate South Carolina (Zone 8a)
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I agree Hurray!

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