Oh Melissa I love that one,
have you seen anything advertised by Mr Ko, if you do let me know please.

Melissa
sorry was responding to a question about amaryllis bulbs i cant seem to keep them separate scene did 2 co-ops at the same time and shipped together I have to store my amaryllis bulbs in a there because there growing and im selling them for x-mas so there about 3 weeks to early and my warm humid days and nights tell them to grow.

my Adeniums are all outside and wont come in till it gets about 55 here then im turning up the heat and the grow lights on the purple rose hope they dont go dorm-it i need them blooming in the spring here for sale





here are my baby's i bet they don't turn out the colors i thought they would so i will most likely try my hand at grafting?

But it sure is fun watching them grow. I love mine.

oh i have a big seed pod and i will be planting them for sure. i cant get over how fast they grow and how you can see how there little fat bodies develop

I agree Mike they are exciting to watch how fat they get.
my plants from you are potted up in my plant room, look forward to blooms next year.

Good Morning everyone from a very soggy S.Florida. wow do I ever have a lot of weeding to do if the rain ever stops. I'm not complaining though we need as much as we can get. Doris I'm going to have to get some hints from you on pot size and garden mix; I've decided that my biggest failure is in growing D.R. in a pot. Since I suggested that you have so many you might try to grow one outdoors, I think I should take my own advice and try growing one indoors since I have way too many.

Jim if I put them outside for the summer they would do fine BUT I would definately have to dig them up for the winter, we get far too cold,
I use small pots, and I mix perlite, cactus mix, so water can go through them water them once a week.
this is Star of hope that I got from Brian



this is my Varigated one, no blooms yet

Very pretty Star of Hope, Doris.

And I neglected to say to Charleen that the fat bit at the bottom of one she showed us is as cute as can be.

OK, Mike, you frightened me! haha. I'm downloading my photos of the Arrival of the Purple Doubles right now- story coming soon!

A "Wilfred" I need to write to that guy, snail mail.
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That is beautifulMelissa, This is my while one nice blooms and still has buds, click on it to see all blooms.

OK, my drama for the month. Or something.

Mike seemed to have an awful lot of the double purples, so I decided to take some off his hands. They got here yesterday. My, what a big box!!
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And, wowee, a box within a box, fantastic packing job, Mike!
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Full of little grafted plants, hollering and moaning and groaning, "Get us outa here!!!"
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The Line-up. (If these plants are 4 to 5 years old, then I must be 307 years old...)


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Lolling around in warm water with a bit of Superthrive added for good measure.
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Pots, pots. A little shredded mulch to keep the potting medium from drooling all out the holes---
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Some perlite to soften the blow, I'll add my potting mix, this time it'll be about half and half perlite and peat. Or maybe more perlite than peat.

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Wheee, all planted!
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And a mess to tidy up.



OK, this morning they got a little sunlight, tomorrow they go out under the overhang of the roof on the deck, where they'll get early morning sun, until about ten am. Let's all give a big cheer for these little guys, they've had a rough trip, and they're just babies. Another photo in a few weeks once they've leafed out.

Doris, Adenium_ko has two hundred and fifty choices!

http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html...

wowee, if that doesn't work, look on the left side of the page, and find 'specify seller" and go from there, adenium_ko.

The grafted plant seller I buy from is kwarunee. She has a Triple Amazing Thailand for $20, and a Valentine Rose for $22.50.

http://www.ebay.com/sch/khwaru...

Whew, I always get dizzy looking at all those flower pictures!

Great pictorial Melissa, and I agree, those plants don't look 4-5 years old..... maybe Mike needs to yell at the supplier?

Hetty I thought the same thing when I got mine, then I thought maybe because they are grafted they didn't get very big.

sorry if you all did not understand the spreadsheet lists seedlings in one place but these are all grafted on 9 month old seedlings i showed a pic of this in the original thread The thread "Order thread for Adenium co-op" in Classifieds and Group Buys forum i explained somewhere a few times large growers just plant all there seeds ans graft on babies, what they dont use for grafts they sell as seedling ( NO GRAFTS ON SEEDLINGS) i also have on the pic grafted plants and seedlings. my supplier i find out is the 2nd largest in Thailand and works with Mr Ko they supply 87% of the adenium imported in the USA. i just get them from a different broker then others. My broker has people on 3 continents (Australia , north America, and Thailand)
Hetty
FCN supplier traces back to the same area of Thailand the difference she can order smaller amounts due to the fact i go threw a broker that imports only LARGE amounts so we pay very little in shipping compared to them. i pay pennies per plant to ship to Miami then my main up charge for shipping is fed ex overnight to me
I have am import permit now and can import but small amounts like 50 plants can be $700. in shipping only
My apologies if anyone misunderstood but i had it all explained and answered questions as they where asked I told all that seedlings we would not know what they would bloom as also due to they are seedlings not grafted plants!

OK I should have read back I guess. No problem Mike!!

Dutchlady1 said:Great pictorial Melissa, and I agree, those plants don't look 4-5 years old..... maybe Mike needs to yell at the supplier?

The grafted plants were not supposed to be 5 years old.The 5 year olds were the seedlings.I would guess those grafted plants to be about a year old.

Ah,I see that a couple of us were posting at the same time.

Hello, everyone.

I have a theory that the word "adenium" is a contraction of an ancient latin curse meaning: "I will make you sweat".

My little adenium looked great out of the box, with 4 green leaves. So, I potted it and set it outside, where it was 78-80F and a steady drizzle was falling. It drizzled for 2 or 3 days. The baby was under the eaves, so it didn't get constant drizzle; just enough to keep the soil nicely moist, but not soggy. And there's where the latin curse took hold. As of this morning, all 4 leaves fell off. But, I have been through stuff this before and I KNOW for a fact that it will perk right up. I am not sweating this one out.

Take care, all.
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Sylvain, I would gently take the plant out of the pot and shake off all the medium, to see what the roots/caudex look like. I hope you don't have a problem! Mine would be rotting, me sweat, too!

Mike! Great news, all the plants are growing. I am very nearsighted, when I'm wearing my 4X grocery store glasses, anyway, and I could see growth on all the little guys. I am NOT unhappy with the plants at all. They had a long strange trip to get here. I am reassuring them they'll never have to fly again, I hope I'm not lying!

A picture just to add some color to the thread...
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Wow! They did go for a long, strange trip! I'm amazed that you can receive plants in the mail on a Caribbean island, I guess because it is the US Virgen's you have US mail? I'm a tad jealous, yes I am.