Thank you for the welcome.
I got my seeds from a UK seller on ebay, there aren't many here in the UK. He sells his surplus seeds, I believe they are imported from Thailand and possibly Venezuela.
He does state that the flowers (and the variegated varieties) may not turn out as expected...all part of the fun of growing them !
My Somalense are looking quite good so far...here are three of them...
The three Obesums are a mixture of pinks, and white/red, with one variety having longer looking petals.
I'm watching one with interest as it's a creamy green colour, quite different to all of the others.
One germinated a bit strangely (a breech birth, perhaps ?) so I'm keeping a close eye on that one too.
I have more Obesum seeds as I got a special offer pack of them, 50 seeds of several different (hopefully !) flower colours. Earlier today I soaked some more, and they are now in my propagator.
Unfortunately I don't have anything to graft the albino onto...there is now an older Adenium on ebay but it would take a week to get here, not sure if the albino has that long left ! I did consider trying to graft it to one of the other variegated seedlings (I bought five of these seeds - three are growing nicely, one is the albino and one hasn't done anything)
The Arabicums...they took a lot longer to germinate, and then seemed to stop - with only a tiny thin root, just visible, sticking downwards out of one end and the case still almost lying flat on the surface. I figured that it was something I wasn't providing, so I made a few changes and now they are growing nicely, leaves are there now and the cases are nearly off. I really don't want to lose those two !
