Adenium (Desert Rose)
Days to Germinate (3 to 10 days)
Days to Bloom (6 months to 2+ years)
Important: Seeds and seedlings are toxic, so keep away from pets or children.
Adenium (Desert Rose) Seeds Growing Instructions:
1. Soak seeds overnight (or up to 24 hours) with a mixture of 1 tbsp of hydrogen peroxide and a cup of lukewarm water. (Normal for seeds to float.) Use the left over water mixture for the initial watering.
2. Use any clean seedling trays or plastic containers with good drainage. If using humidity dome, remove dome once seedlings start to emerge.
3. Discard unhealthy-looking seeds. Sow the healthy-looking seeds on coarse sand, or 50/50 cactus soil (or potting soil) and perlite. Place the seeds horizontally and using just enough soil to barely cover the seeds. Do not bury deep.
4. Spray the soil with water as needed to keep the soil moist but not too wet. Occasionally, use water mixture with hydrogen peroxide to prevent damping off.
5. Transplant seedlings to individual pots when 2+ months old, same depth, do not bury the caudex deep. Do not water for up to 3 days after transplanting, keep in shade and gradually introduce to direct light.
6. For older seedlings, use fast draining mix, let soil dry in between waterings. When seedlings are 3+ months old, occasionally water with low dose blooming liquid fertilizer and let it enjoy 6+ hours of direct sun.
"Princess Gigi", Grown from seed under grow lights by
@Murky zone 5b developed buds at 6 months and at 7 months here she is full on blooms:
Repotting of Desert Roses Seedlings:
Wildbloomers said: I don't wash the soil off Adenium seedlings until they're crowding 3" pots.
DO NOT DO THIS (even if youtube says you should!)
DO THIS! (I will add a photo when I am brave enough to repot
!)
Wildbloomers said:
I just "up-pot" them. Lifting the entire plant with as much of the surrounding soil as possible without affecting the nearest seedling and then just backfilling the new pot. When a plant is big enough to push roots through drain holes in a 3" pot it will be strong enough to recover from the minor damage caused by cleaning and inspecting the roots.
Hand pollination of Adeniums is fun!
I noticed these seedpods 2nd week of April so these are 2 months old. Still not ripe.
Same plant rebloomed, which I tried to cross pollinate with other adeniums. These are the new seedpods, which are about a week old, and hopefully will not fall off.
1 month old seedlings from last fall's seeds (same momma plant), which I kept in the fridge to keep them fresh.
Here is the Momma plant (gift received from hubby Mother's Day 2014) with blooms in April 2021.
I didn't pay close attention to how old is this baby seedling but this could be 4 months old (very small/dwarf) but the Momma plant is very small too. Got neglected so it is just now starting to grow.
Feel free to post your adenium babies here!
