Welcome to Landcaster Gardens: Adenium Seedlings One Year Later.....

Each pair of leaves I've observed comes up each week, it's pretty easy to keep tab at this point in how many weeks old they are. By the second month after they had sprouted, it's time to transplant them. In order to know when to transplant adenium seedlings, they have to have at least six true leaves or more for the transplanting to be a success. However sometimes the plant may go into shock and you should expect some lost unless you're lucky enough to have lost none.

June 13, 2014

Here are the roots of these tiny cute seedlings. As I've read some has experimented on cutting the taproot, I too have done this for some of the seedlings. Why I want to join this experiment? I'm not sure but I sure hope that it'll have more than one main root to feed the plant and also hope as these seedlings grow, the roots will give the plant a uniqueness to it as it gets older.

June 13, 2014

When I have cut the tap root, I brought some Styrofoam balls from the art store. I cut these small balls in half and plant the round top upwards so that the roots would spread around the object instead of crumbling up together. I have seen some people using bottle caps or plastic cut out discs. I prefer nothing sharp around the edges that can threaten the roots.

About five months after that I have un-potted the roots of these plants to see how they are doing. Some had gone through the Styrofoam spheres but not deep enough at least. Many roots of course has formed over time. This time I re-potted them in a bigger pot.

November 19,2015

November 19, 2015

In the teapots, I have to admit I started neglecting the Adenium seeds. If you have been keeping up with my previous adenium post, you'll notice there's more seedlings and also fatten looking ones.

Also, I had decided to raise another batch of seedlings from seed in October 2014. The healthy looking ones seem to be part of the new batch. However, they aren't the same flowers as the previous ones.

Oddly I had lost one new seedling somehow. It fell over. I think it got damp off. I'm thinking it's because I have transplanted them a little earlier than the previous batch.

Before I forget, I noticed one of them starting to branch out! It's pretty exciting, rewarding to see and experience these plants grow. I hope you guys will enjoy try sowing Adenium seeds as well.

Welp, that's it for their first year update. Until next time. Thanks for reading!

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