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Mar 31, 2015 10:02 PM CST
Name: Ron
Naples, Florida (Zone 10a)
Region: Florida Hummingbirder Butterflies Adeniums Bromeliad Hibiscus
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Thanks for the link. Quite an interesting article. Thank You! Thank You! Thank You!

I was glad to read that Adeniums grow faster and larger in larger pots, that they do not like to be root-bound. I know from my own experience my three "mature" Adeniums (two obesum and one somalense) that had scarcely grown in the four or five years they were in an "appropriate" sized pot, more than doubled in size the first year after having been repotted into way over-sized pots.

I'm just glad I had repotted them before "learning" they preferred to be root-bound. I had been considering down-sizing their pots, but now realize I don't need to.

They do, however, need to be repotted, simply because the "compressible" media they have been growing in the past few years has decomposed to the point their pots are now only half-full of soil. So I'll be considering the media he suggests.

Timely article for me! Thumbs up Thumbs up Thumbs up
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