Dear Mr. Sessions,

I'm new at all this and will appreciate your advise if possible. I have fresh seeds gathered from naturally polinated adenium, have read your article and understand about soil mixtures and planting of seeds, but I have questions. To keep myseld from wandering I'm numbering my sentences:

1. Should fresh seeds be soaked overnight before planting?

2. Do I plant seeds now as I would like, or must I wait until next spring? I live in South Carolina but winters are still too cold to start them outside.

3. At about what temperature should the seedbed be kept? Would a grow light work?

4. Is it OK to repot the parent plant, following your instructions concerning soil mixture? Is it OK to repot this time of year? I'd appreciate any other instruction or advise you'd care to pass along.

Thank you, and thank you for the good article.

"L. I." Williams

Hi,
I will take these questions in order;

1 I soak for at least 4 hours.8 hours is ok but not much longer.

2 You can plant now if you can keep the temperatures above 50 degrees at night.

3 I like the seedbed daytime temperature to be above 70 degrees.A grow light or heat mat would help or you can use my "redneck' method and put them in your car in the daytime.

4 It is ok to repot this time of year if you can keep the temperature warm enough.

I hope this helps.It would also be a good idea to read through the old forums.There is a world of information there.Also,if you ask future questions on the current forum,#33 I think,you will get answers from me and from others who may have a different viewpoint.
JT

OK I will confess I have never been able to start these plants from seeds. I have 5 plants that I love dearly. Will older seeds germinate at all? Will soaking allow some to germinate?
C

Hi, I have found that older seeds are much harder to get to germinate, I soak mineabout 5 hours, when you plant them just barely cover the seed with soil, and keep warm I use a shop light, they usualy sprout in a few days.

I never have much luck with old seed.With fresh seed I get over 90% germination.With year old seed 0- 15 %.
If you already have the seed it won't hurt to try.

I have found these very easy to grow from fresh seed. They will germinate in 24 hours at time. I put them on a heat mat to start.

From whom do you get fresh seeds? I ordered from a Thai grower on eBay last year and didnot receive my seeds at all.

ebay is NOT a good place to get them, ask JT maybe he has some for sale.

Hey, someone sent me some adenium obesum 'Sakura II' seeds. Anybody got a clue on where I can find out what these are?
I did find Sakura blossoms on two different sites and they were totally different blossoms. Is this inconsistency common with adenium websites?
Oops, that was my second question! The first one is the answer I am really looking for!

I'm down to two adeniums, one from JT and one from Charleen. You can tell I'm not a big collector, but I enjoy when they bloom and find the challenge of not killing them, well ................... challenging!!!!

Hi I'm new and have also not had much luck with old seeds, I can tell instantly because they usually sprout within a dew days. I have one 6 inch out of 30 seeds. 4 from 30 and 18 Fromm my last batch of 20. I just planted 38 of a new batch today I just can't get enough of these. I still have not seen a flower yet, any tips on what watt bulb I should use to get them to bloom? I have a indoor greenhouse with a set up of 250 watt rite now. Thanks for any help you can give. Karen