i think its close but you know its so hard to tell with sooo many different ones on the market.

decided to try to get pics of all my adeniums and figure out some to sell well here they are to my suprise so far i have none of the same flower and not one we want to sell YET i know i have doubles and trips
nice dark color fades inner petals to light pink in a day or two.

one i really like almost purple on edge when open then dark pink

small white flower with very faint pink on edges

nice pointy petals

dark pink only on one side of petal

ruffled edges

my fav didnt know i had this

well i will have to wait a few more days to locate the ones im selling. i think i will have ones with basically no caudex ,small caudex,med,and large, all noids then hope named ones also

mike

Mike you're not doing too well if you're not selling any of those

well im looking to have one of every kind i can find. I want to start cross breeding ones like the pure white with ruffles on petals with a purple rose to see what i get. or the pointy leaves with a double like your red. also looking for ones to custom graft on to make multiple different blooms on a single caulex

Can you believe the retail shop would pay 10-12 for any of these i dont think i can get anywhere close to that here most of them have caudex's measure 9-14 in round so far s few none at all but they bloom like crazy.

Mike I hope you have lots of room, patience and money, it will take all three to do what your hoping to do and make money.

Doris
Have you not figured out that im more crazy then most....I have a feeling that i Dont have as much of any of those things and will have to cut down on some but will try to keep the dream alive as long as i can. i bet 50% of what i like to keep will get sold to get more of what.

got looking at everything and am starting to wounder why have i started about 100 more plumeria seeds???

everything will do an about face when i get back to work that is when its going to get real ugly around here

Thanks for the warning Doris I hope your not a "I TOLD YOU SO " type of person i can already hear it!
mike

this is what i want to start doing


and can you imagine doing with doubles and triples?

just have to get the grafting down pat

Wow Mike that would be SO cool!

yea that is one reason i dont want to get rid of some of the plain ones with nice branching and caudex I bet i could get a good $$ for a plant with 4-5 different blooms on a 2 ft tall plant

That's spectacular Mike. What a great concept. I hope you do it and make a success of it, it's a fabulous dream.

You know, the Thai growers graft almost ALL their plants, I don't know why they don't do this more often.

I know it took me a long time to find a pic of this and it came from India adenium. you know its like here you can buy the fruit cocktail tree it has grafted 3 different fruit on one stock. I just have to get plants big to take cuttings and graft im starting to practice soon my plumeria grafts didnt take but they where from rotten cuttings and thats what i am blaming it on

we all know i am better then that

Why try to graft rotten cuttings
Rules are: very sharp CLEAN knife and a tight joint.

Mike I promise never to tell you that, you or Wil will be saying it enough.
I think the reason more plants have not gotten different flowers all on the same plant is that they will not survive, and as for the cocktail tree I have tried three and never got more than one fruit, apple.

Hetty

i had a 2 cuttings that had about 1 1/2 in tip that was ok by the time i cut up the stem to pure white and didn't think rooting was an option and sending it for a graft wasn't either so i said why not

well didn't work

Doris

i have heard horror stories about those trees but i think my idea would work.

a few i have in bloom of the adeniums that did not sell on co-op

sorry pics are little blurry

this is a general view of the adeniums with plumeria in background....................think i counted 12 blooms and 8 more to open!






1 of 4 storage areas for plants!!!

Wow those are very pretty Adeniums!

and they have not sold!!! the next co-op they are going up a bit i have had to re-pot them and take care of them for 6 months but i should have a great idea what flower your getting and they are in full grow and bloom stage right now

Like one of the storage areas i have for plants i dont have the heart to put them all together i might get in trouble they look like not as many if there not all together




i know this is an adenium forum but have to show you one of 3 amaryllis beds and hoe the grasshoppers are eating the blooms.....i have picked at least 30 to bring in house and i just quit picking i still have about 32 from the co-op in pots and dont know might force them for next Christmas or i could just have another co-op and get more

Here is my first bloom on the double purple from Mike's co-op.This is going to make a nice plant.

Oh that is lovely!!