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Aug 19, 2011 11:13 AM CST
Name: Melissa E. Keyes
St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands
Zone 11+
Charter ATP Member
I let the boiled water cool to room temperature, guess I should go edit that in. OK.

Some more photos....

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They 'look' toward the light

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A late sprout
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Pen is pointing at an odd leaf. I don't know if the plant will be odd.

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I visited a friend when she was touching up her hair color, and I got this great little squirty bottle when she was done.
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. I am silly-fussy, using the bottle to spot fertilize, down amongst the plants. Then I use an old clean Windex spray bottle to give the whole pan a heavy mist. Not a watering, but a good wetting of the leaves.

I'm already fertilizing with diluted 10-20-30, I'm guessing! I use a 'super bloom' kind of fertilizer, (10-35-10), and add Muriate of Potash (0-0-60, not soluable, but most of it disolves) about spoon per spoonful, to try to get in the ball park with the numbers. I also use Spray and Grow, but only on the roots, I have bad luck spraying the stuff, but others say their Adeniums like to be sprayed with Spray and Grow.

The tray gets full sun until about ten am, then I put it out on my deck under a glass refridgerator door that I scrounged. The sun is filtered a bit, and the young plants are protected from the occasional hard downpour of our tropical cloudbursts. One time I got home and found an unprotected tray of month-old babies had been really smashed by the rain, all the potting mix was gone, and the tiny bare root plants were in a tangle in the bare bottom of the tray, waaaa!
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