This is my first desert rose...it is now 22 inches and have a few leaves only on the very tip. What to do? Will it bloom?
It's been in a 6 inch pot. Does it need repotting?

Hi, Betsy!!

Sounds like it could be a Socotranum, a variety from Socotra Island. Very Special!! A connoseur's plant, for sure

Here's a link to a mix of photos, some are correct, anyway.

Don't prune the plant, it will just send up another stem heading for the sky. Probably doesn't need repotting.

It will bloom eventually! If it decides to go dormant, looses its' leaves, let it stay dry until it decides to start growing again. Then it might just have flower buds, then flowers. Don't water if it does that! It'll start growing leaves, a new stem, and the flower buds will wither and drop off without blooming. Booo if that happens!

Thanks for posting! Which part of Texas?

Hi Melissa,

I'm in SE Texas about 50 min. from the border with LA.

The name I got for it was "super noble concubine". Maybe it needs more light? It was in the east facing window.

piksihk,it needs to be in full sun if you can arrange that.Move it into the sun gradually to avoid sunburn.Super Nobel Concubine is an Obesum.It should bloom on the tall stalk and once you have enjoyed those blooms you can cut it off at about the 6 inch level which will force the plant to branch.The cut off part can also be rooted in sand.

That is a great plant! Very good Adenium. Good breeding. Keep in touch!

I have never had my plants in the ground because of our winters, but could they be put in the ground for the summer then potted for the winter or would that be too much moving araound.

Doris, I've got a few that I put in a pot then put the pot in the ground; just to see if they survive that way. I know our temps are vastly different, but why not just try with one? I'm finding that; with a lot my in the ground adeniums the roots just get too long and deep to dig up and raise. Now I experimenting with digging a few up, trimming the roots and putting them back in the ground in pots!

Don't do it! The roots will quickly or immediately fill the drain holes, and your plant won't be able to drain, and will rot.

How about putting something in the hole under them, like, cut a plastic jug into sort-of flat pieces, so that the roots go bonk instead of straight down like carrots from hades?

Hmmmm, even if I re pot them every year? And b-4 I forget; Hi Melisa

Yo, Jim!

They love to go deep, they are arid land critters, and water is scarce where they live naturally. So it's deep quick, and there goes the drainage in your pot, if it's in the ground.

I cant have mine in the ground so i use orchid pots a lot so as the bottom drain holes start to fill there is still holes in the sides of the pot and just watch for them to out grow the pots. they do grow roots down to drain holes VERY fast but i tend to fine re pot 1 time a year is ok so far but you need to be ready for some tall pots if you don't!!!

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sounds to me like it would be a lot of extra work, guess I will stay with pots

The ones that I put in pots and then in the ground; I first put in a layer of stone (actually broken up coral is what I think it is) to keep the drain hole from clogging; but I like your idea of the orchid pots Mike. I only want to do it that way till I'm satisfied with the caudex at which time I will just replant them in the ground minus pots. I now realize that I've made a BIG mistake in using plastic pots. Melissa made me remember about how easy these guys drown now that we are in our rainy season I think I'm going to lose a few plants. I guess I'll get a batch of clay pots and re-do what I thought I was finished with.

"re-do what I thought I was finished with"

You know you're the ONLY human on Earth that has that problem!!

My "Blooming Table" today---
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"Siam Gold". Mmmmm, not terribly pleased with this one, especially for the price---- It's really cute, but tiny and not gold. Owell.
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The BIG one, of two that I dug out of a friend's yard. She's moving away. The roots were stopped by the hardest, stickiest clay mud, can't even call that stuff soil! The water did not drain--, I flushed the plant out of the ground, digging with my fingers, three hour's of oooofing. Lots of feeder roots. I might be cured from wanting any more full-sized plants now. Maybe

OOps, perhaps this-all should have been a new thread.

Looks great Melissa wellmworth all the work, I sure wish I could put them in the ground then I would end up with as many as you have.

Melissa, Your correct , there will never be another me So, you dug down to clay mud huh! I thought you lived on an island. Even here if I dig deep what I hit is coral rock. So; are you going to put that guy you dug out in a pot? I'd sure like to see a picture of it when you trim the roots and top b-4 you put it in a pot.

Melissa, One Jim Is enough, isn't there???
Looks pretty good, was a lot of work getting that one out...Great Job...

Here are my Siam in bloom now Mine has a good amount of gold in it!!
and my BIG fav white.



i hope the yellow increases with food heat and age!!!








mike

Very pretty...