Tuesday, July 26, 2016

Two years later...

Adeniums will eventually flower if not earlier or much later than two years depending on how it's being cared for. Though they can flower in different varieties, make note that even if you get a seed of different types of Adeniums for specific color or appearance, there are possibilities they would bloom the original Adenium pink color/appearance instead.

In the following photos are Adeniums from 2014 and another batch mixed in that had started to grown in 2015.

I was checking on them a couple of days ago and what I found was exciting. After all, who isn't waiting for their hard work to bloom. I am a bit worried if they will bloom their original flowers instead of the ones I expected when I brought these specific type of seeds. I'm not sure which are which yet, so I have to wait until they start to bloom.

Because they are all bunched up and being cluttered, I decided that they need to be repotted even if one of them are in bloom. If I don't, I may not have time to get to it later on and the pots may break from the expanding roots.

July 16, 2016



I am glad I decided to repot them, the caudex and root ball was expanding so much and growing deep into the pots, they were all hard to unpot. It took a couple of hours until I was able to unpot and repot every one of the Adeniums. One of the tea pot pots was actually so compacted, I decided to repot each plant more spaciously so that the Caudex can focus on expanding instead of going straight down.


July 26 2016


I had also repotted the ones with buds, the roots and Caudex was maturing very beautifully. I hope the flower buds won't blast from the transition. If it does, then that's lesson learnt but at least I know I have succeeded in flowering them.

July 26, 2016


Some of the more older looking Adeniums you see in a yellow pot, a black pot towards the left and legged one towards the back, they are all older Adeniums I've brought from the store. The ones in the middle large black pot, terracotta pot in front and the green pot are the Adenium seedlings that are still growing, most likely from the 2015 batch.

July 26, 2016


This time I've placed a slow time release fertilizer of 14-14-14 to help encourage growth with each potting that has been done.



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