What a beautiful varigated seedling!
I am feeding the pods because of nutrition, not to change the DNA. I had a nice pod on a big triple red named Valentine Rose that was rather thin. The seeds, when ripe, were spindly and empty, no viable seeds after drooling over the pod for all those months. It's a huge difference in size and growth of the pods once I started spraying them with everything in my arsenal just as the sun comes up, two weeks ago.. Some have grown thicker than my thumb.
I am not really serious about trying to come up with anything special as to flower form. The Thai breeders are wayyyyy ahead of me, and have hired help, and nurseries of 30,000 seedlings. The photos of year old plants in four inch pots stretching off into the distance amaze me! I am keeping records as best I can.
I am crossing the fragrant flowers with each other. I have a seedling of "New Yellow", a Ko flower, I thimmk, that has a canary yellow throat, and an aroma of sweet vanilla, all day. The other five fragrant flowers I have are fragrant for a few minutes here and there when they feel like it. Erghhhh!
In the Yahoo group, there is occasional mention of a cross between Adenium and Oleander. I looked closely at an oleander flower just this morning, and they are the same as Adenium! I think I'll play around with trying to get a cross.
I need a camera!! I got some seedlings to bloom five months from planting, sown in May. Boy, that varigated of yours is really nice...
Dr. Dimmitt tried, with others, to form a World Adenium Society a few years ago, but it didn't go anywhere. Too bad they didn't just go for American Adenium Society, as none of the SE Asia people joined. They were too busy with making money.
There now obseums that stay very small, naturally. And the Thai-socos are getting to be amazing little monsters.
Yes, St. Thomas. I've been there, and I know there's another St. Thomas, but I've only seen the traffic and 15,000 cruise ship folks all downtown at once. I really don't know why anyone would live there, haha! My island is totally sleepy in comparison. We get only one or two ships a week in the winter season.
