Hi all. Been a long time member here (& DG before that, & GW before that), but I tend to not post much. I mostly lurk & read a lot of the posts.
Just thought I'd post a few shots of my adeniums. Sorry in advance for the backgrounds. I didn't plan these pics in advance and I was in a hurry because I was trying to get some watering done before some company showed up.
First is a variegated adenium I found at Home Depot. Never saw them carry adeniums before until a month or so ago. They had 2 varieties - 1 variegated & 1 non-variegated - and being that I am a variegation nut, I ended up with 3 of those. Nice size plants at only $15 each! Kind of a mostly solid dark pink flower. Doesn't seem well formed (at least these first few blooms), but still nice. This one is in about a 10 inch azalea-type pot.
Here is a little dwarf I bought on eBay a month or so ago. Has the typical pinkish-red flowers, but no blooms right now. In a 4 inch clay pot.
Next is my big mama. She's not really that big, but I've had her for about 3 or 4 years now. She's in a 12 inch clay azalea pot. Typical obesum-type flowers. Buds forming, but none open yet. She's getting a little leggy - need to give her a slight haircut once she blooms out.
These are my babies - please ignore my poor little wilted tomato plants in the back right. I need to get them in the ground! Those adeniums in the 6 cell flat (lower/front right) were started in March, I think? It's on the label, I just don't remember. All of the others were started right about 5 weeks ago. I'd read somewhere that letting them dry out well between waterings at the seedling stage can help grow a larger caudex. Thought I'd try it, and a number of the younger seedlings are nearly as fat & plump as the older ones. Most of the seeds were all ordered from overseas via eBay and a few others were also imports, but were purchased from TopTropicals. I love all of the various leaf shapes, sizes and colors even at this small stage!
Interestingly, out of about a hundred or so, I ended up with 4 pure white seedlings. I'd always heard that the white ones would die. Well, once I moved them outside, I noticed they had started to pink up a little. Within a very short time, they were virtually indistinguishable from the rest. I did lose one of them. One I lost track of and can't remember which one it is. Here are pics of the other two. Both were pure white until I potted them into these flats & moved them outside into some sunlight. The first (towards the back of the pic, leaning) did get its first white leaves burned off by the sunlight, but as you can see, the new leaves growing in are "normal" green. The second one (kind of front & center of the second pic) has always been healthy, and it's leaves seem to be kind of a golden yellowish/green.
