You are very welcome azilem Fronda

Hello jose augusto silva!I'm glad You like it - why do thinks harder if they can be accomplished simply :-)

Wow Dade Pomsouven - 500! that's a lot! Congratulations. As for your growing medium - I think the Adeniums like first and formost good drainage - so whichever way you can acomplish that they're going to like. At least that seems to be my experience.

Thank you for suggestion Jain. Will do. Maybe even tomorrow.

Hello Kelvin Guzman, I'm glad you liked the video. Most of Adeniums get sooner or later swollen base - some wholly or partially under surface, especially if they're little bit root bound and grown in full sun. So if you choose (non-bonsai) pot the size similar like the bonsai pot you would like the plant to be later in, and grow your plant in this (non bonsai) pot in well lit area till it's little root bound and then expose / raise the bottom - you'll get the nature made trunk of the ancient tree look needed for bonsai, called in Japanese bonsai lingo "nebare". But maybe your plant already has it - uncover some of the growing medium close to the trunk and have a look.

Shalom Eli and Anat (I'm saying 'shalom' because many videos on Your page kzfaq.info are in Hebrew) I'm glad You like my videos and information in it I never been to Thailand but from Internet I know that Adenium is very popular there ... I live in united states.

Hello Plants and flowers, I'm glad You like it and thank You for letting me know.

Hello CandiYes, sometimes. Also sometimes some that are thin and didn't reached the soil just dry up/off. I like your icon

Garden S Thank you!

Hello Nikki R, I'm glad You like my videos and plats :-) As for encouraging Adeniums to bloom - well I don't know which advise would be best for your plants, but here are few thinks to consider: fertilizer - You might try low nitrogen fertilizer to discourage excessive leaf growth. Age: if your plants are young and/or small - than that might be the cause of low and infrequent blooming - so yes - transplanting into bigger pots might help. Specie: If your Adeniums are Adenium Bohemianum or (true) Adenium Socotranum -then those are the specie that bloom less often then other no mater what - it's in their genes As for defoliation - well - I have a moth here name Oleander Hawk Moth (Latin name Daphnis nerii) that lay eggs on Adenium leaves and caterpillars that hatch from those eggs sometimes strip all leaves from infested plants and new leaves grow and the plants this affected don't bloom more then the once right next to them - so for me this does not work, but its not much of a hindrance either - just slight delay. As for temperature - I assume they love it - since Adenium is African plant. I have smallest blooming in winter with temperature 60 to 70 F. and highest in late spring - early summer. One more thing about temperature - because it is so high where you live - aren't the roots 'baking'? If so - you might want to put the pot/s in Styrofoam containers and if that helps then next time you're transplanting purchase pots made of Styrofoam. The commercial gardening pots don't look like they're from this material, because (at least in stores here) are sold painted. They're often sold without drainage holes so you have to just punch those. Nikki R I hope something from these would work for your plants. Happy gardening!

Garden S THANK YOU SOOO MUCH for all your advice and prompt response. 😊...indeed, our winter will be at this temperature or maybe mid 60s for a few days. But you are correct about the roots, i also notice minor sunburns on the caudex. I will most definitely put your advice to good use. Thanks again!!

I'm glad you liked the reply Nikki R.

yes. If the problem is attack by 'red spider mites', then, in my experience, the leaves always regrew

I think lava rocks are better than pebbles in that that they have more texture and release more nutrients. But I guess whatever is available might do just fine.

Thanks for sharing!

Hello denho45 as for the feeding - in theory fertilizer rich on potassium and low on nitrogen suppose to encourage bloom. But in my experience more importantly for Adenium is age and size and plenty of sun. I'm in tropics and here Adeniums bloom most heavily in middle to end of spring and least in winter when we have rainy season, but larger plants in larger pots bloom on and off throughout the year.

Our summer is short and could be pretty rainy like this year so I get lots of large leafs but I got one bloom this week for the first time. thank you for your help.

Hello Kalinna Aub, That cultivar is called Spindrift. I purchased it’s seeds from Mr. Ko ‘skilful hands’. His website is: www.adenium.com.tw/desert1.htm With pricelist on: www.adenium.com.tw/2017price%20list.htm As for watering - when it’s warm and plants are growing actively, Adenium likes to be well watered, provided that the growing medium is draining very well. When is cold I water less to avoid root-rot. As for watering till water drains from the bottom - well yes and they don’t like to have plate under to catch the water because in staying water they can get root rot, but if the plant wasn’t transplanted for some years, the water can create a pathway from top to the drainage hole and so parts of the medium in the pot can be totally dry even after the water is coming from drainage hole. That’s one of the reasons why it’s important to repot once in a while. Best of growing Kalinna!

Hello again - I would just like to add that each of my 'Spindrift' Adenium grew very pronounced codex, but each very different shape. And they grew slower and shorter than other single petal white flower cultivars I tried to grow and they all bloomed profusely, but pollinated with each other very reluctantly. They crossed with non-white cultivars/hybrids readily but lost the white color of petals.

Hello Syed Al Farhad. I don't know but it could be spider mites. Take a look with strong magnifier on the under-side of leaves. There is a type call: Red spider mite. It likes to infect Adenium and then all the leaves might gradually get yellow and fall off.

Hello geri jackson I made a video on that subject the name of that video is: Adenium transplanting - root cutting You can see it on: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ZsBhhLVnsLSXoJ8.html cheers!

Hello Harry Fong.If it's hot, the mature Adenium plants that are not just after transplanting like the rain - even heavy rain - provided that the container has adequate drainage holes and the growing medium has good drainage ability. In other words - provided that the roots are not staying in water but are staying in wet growing medium. In the deserts and rocky slopes of Africa - where they originate - there are rainy seasons, but in the sand or on rocky slope water does not stay.

@@GardenSvideos Thank you so much for sharing. Cheers.

You're welcome. :-)

Hello, I did video on that subject and You can view it by clicking on: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/eKyTdLx9zrS4kp8.html cheers

Hello Tuhina Nasrin, I plant all my Adeniums in same mixture (except Adenium seeds) I made a video about my Potting mixture. Video has name: How to mix Adenium soil An You can see it by clicking on: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/eKyTdLx9zrS4kp8.html cheers

Hi D G, I do. I live in tropics but because I'm not that far from ocean, the temperature is mild. But I've read that somewhere in Texas, grower has to have the pots in semi shade and/or in styrofoam containers to protect roots from baking.

I live in tropics (Hawaii) and even here it's almost like that in the winter.

@@GardenSvideos i am from the Philippines where there is plenty of sunshine; i also cover them when it rsins so they don't get soaked. I guess I have been pampering them, they now behave as spoiled brats. 🤣 Seriously, though, i am on the verge of giving up on them, if not for about 2 varieties out of 15 that gave me pretty blooms. Thank you for your videos. They keep my hopes up.

@@rivergal57 Yes, my also don't all bloom same amount

Hello roylo lopez, seed of this plant was planted May 8. 2015 I'm glad you liked this video cheers!!! :-)

thank you for you response, I have just started growing from seed about 6 days old now and I see some of them are sprouting now. im pretty excited see them grow. cheers

@@roylolopez2598 hi where from u collect seeds?

Hello Gardening With Pleasure,I'm glad You liked this video.Thank You very much for the feedback.

Yes Marybell Tamayo, all those pots have drainage holes - otherwise the'll be great danger of root-root and whole plant dying afterwards. As a matter of fact - if the hole is on the side (not bottom) of the pot and it is few millimeters higher than bottom of the pot then i will re'cut it so the bottom of the pot would not have a puddle. Also - if the drainage holes are on the bottom, then I make sure that the pot is not sitting on very flat surface (for same reason. Cheers and lets be careful please on that terrible virus that's going around.

Thank you so much

Hello DG Yes I do fertilize them. The label says so much every 3 month so I do 1/3 once a month (because my medium is so fast draining. As for type of fertilize - in theory low nitrogen high phosphorus and high potassium should be best for heavy bloom and healthy roots and seeds but I am not observing much difference so sometimes I use triple 16. In winter I fertilize way less because even thou i'm in tropics the plants are sleepy - it gets colder that time.

Hello Brandon, Good question. In my experience Adenium plants grown in containers like mix with very good drainage. Mixture of what depends on what’s available in your area and also how often you like to water. For me - I plant seedlings in perlite (because it’s sterile) from which I sift off the dust. Once they grew up to transplanting size I use the I mix about 50 percent lava cinder (after sifting off dust and large pieces) with about 25 percent soil-less compost and about 25 percent red wood chips (because they decompose slower then other chips and also because the ground termites don’t like them). But sometimes I use just would chips. Some people use shredded coconut husk, but again - it’s good to sift the dust away first. The used perlite from growing sprouts I incorporate to the mix also. If the container has large drainage holes, I position larger pieces of lava cinder on front of them. I read in some bonsai books that in Japan they use river sand as an ingredient, but wherever I lived around the world the river sand was quite non porous, so I think the crushed lava (releasing minerals more readily and holding moisture more and allowing roots to hold on its shapes is better than ‘glass pebbles’ like river sand.

Such beautiful plants. I was wondering many of the plants I see have just a few long scragly branches, how do you get them full and bushy with lots of short flowering branches? Also for a fuller plant is it better to start with a plant that isn't grafted? Because the pictures I see the grafted ones look very out of place with their fat trunk and then a small top. I assume it takes years and years for the grafted ones to fill out and look normal?

Hello WatersproutOfTheDeep, to your 1st question - about my bushy plants: The cultivar Broccoli and cultivar Mini are naturally bushy. Each in the different way: Broccoli by having active branch-bud on each inter-node and Mini by growing more and more twigs from its base. Each of these cultivars tend to transfer some of these characteristics to their offspring when hand cross pollinated with other Adeniums with other desirable characteristics. Also these cultivars and the crosses where they're one of the parents can be often made bushier to some degree with periodic proper pruning. As for your other characteristics - well - yes the crown will get bigger each year, but from beginning it has a charm to some who - for example - admire beauty of small crown on a tall trunk - of a coconut palm, or Lauhala tree (scientific name: Pandanus tectorius. For those who don't have such types of growth in their environment it's going to be either appreciation by way of acquired taste, or it'll appear plain ugly. As for spreading crown without of number of years of growth - that I'm accomplishing by grafting on each branch of root-stock.

Hello Leelamma Abraham that could be serious problem. Is Your growing medium sufficiently draining? And/or do You have in the container/s sufficient drainage holes? And/or are those holes above very bottom of the edge of container/s (that would create puddles on the bottom). And/or do You have bawl/s under pot to catch the water after watering?

Hi sk nayum, well - all I can say is that it does work for me. :-)

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Hello Roy Philip,The benefits are several:if the soil is 'caked' - stopping water from penetratingif the plant is too big for the potif the roots are tangled and strangling each other (root-ball)If the growing medium is depleted of nutrientsIf the watering drilled a crack/pipe to drainage hole and leaving that way fast is failing to water rest of the pot so some of the roots are dryingif You want to restyle the tree - specifically in case of Adenium the plant has often continuation of swollen trunk under the surface of soilif You want to prune roots to help miniaturize the plant and on and on :-)

Desculpe, mas eu não comerciali plantas, eu só faço vídeos para mostrar como você pode fazer isso. Leva apenas cerca de 3 anos para cultivar tal planta de semente

Garden S obrigado

seja bem-vindo

Hello Linda Jackson,I'm sorry but I don't understand what is: "edagdwg'.As for plants I grew all of them from seeds purchased on facebook and ebay.

Thank You Leudo Jr. Rosas do Deserto. I'm glad You like it. Thank You very much.

Hello Freddy SThis one is obesum. The Adenium arabicum has smaller flowers than this and typically 5 petals in single layer and trunk (swelling above the ground more pronounced - wider). The only 'arabicum like' on this plant is large number of twigs growing out of base.

Yes i got lucky years ago that some bonsai supply outlet in Texas ordered more cheep Korean bonsai pots and so they slashed the price a lot and were offering them on the Internet. Oval and rectangular, in several sizes.

Hello maria luisa cabrido. I made a video on this subject and You can view it by clicking on: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/eKyTdLx9zrS4kp8.html On another subject: I saw on Your page that You save a video as Private about artist Marcel Duchamp. Well, if You are aver in Pennsylvania Philadelphia Usa, You can see all his pieces in museum of modern art in that city. Cheers.

Hello Phuoc Tam, sorry but I am not selling Adenium seeds or plants. But I made a video about sellers I recommend. The name of the video is: Adenium seed selling scams and how to avoid them and you can see it by clicking on: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ibt0mtNq0d7XfI0.html cheers!

Hello Dinesh Banerjee, I made a video on this subject. it is call: How to mix Adenium soil and You can view it by clicking on: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/eKyTdLx9zrS4kp8.html cheers!

@@GardenSvideos Thanks

You are very welcome Dinesh Banerjee

I'm glad You like it Shubham Sharma and thank You very much for letting me know that.

Hello Ruth Simbulan, I'm glad you like the videos. For hand pollinating Adenium (unless you have unusually good eye sight, like my granddaughter) it is important to get strong magnifier that's attached to your head - call visor magnifier such as these: www.google.com/search?q=visor+magnifyer&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-b-1 Have fun :-)

Garden S hello..wow nice I got reply from u Sir, I already did, but flowers fall after 4 days.hoping the best result...have a nice day to u Sir.

You too Ruth Simbulan

I'm glad You found this video interesting. About the pin code on Your mailing address - that is very interesting because here in use we don't have pin code in mailing address but we do have area code which is maybe same thing ... . The seeds are starting to ripen so as soon as they finish and are cleaned and packed I'll be mailing them to You and others.

@@GardenSvideos thanku sooooooooooooooomuch sir god bless u your all family

Hello Cham Miralles,the video on Your channel is amazing! About Your question: If the roots weren't damaged during transplanting AT ALL, than I would water normally, but if there was some damage than I would transplant into slightly moist medium and don't water for few days so the disturbance can dry/heal. After that I would water normally by which I'm trying to say - according to weather.

Thank you

Hello Lu Neto, I'm glad You like it. It's a simple idea but to me it makes the plant beautiful.

Garden S, Congratulations, good idea I have adeniuns, I'm from Brazil and I watch your videos, I use the techniques you do to take care of my adeniuns.

Hello Lu Neto, I'm glad You find these videos inspiring. Intenet makes us all 'next door neighbors'.

Hi Mohammad Aslam.

Como se sabe cuando tienen semilla las coronas de cesto y como se cosecha?

El borde de la vaina de semillas se agrieta y luego se corta la vaina y se seca

Hello TechT!Love videos on Your channel!. TechT in this particular video I was showing how some aspects of bonsai can be depicted by Adenium. Namely shallow roots with swollen trunk which in more traditional bonsai specie would take way more years ... . I made other videos showing other typical aspects of bonsai reenacted with Adenium: micro-leaves, raised roots, cut roots, topiary like crown by pruning etc.Cheers!

Hi De Tudo um Pouco E.A.C sorry but I don't understand. :-(

Hello Linda Jackson,I'm sorry but I don't understand what is: "edagdwg'.

Hi I cut its short edagdwg is every day is a good day with god

Oh @@lindajackson7310 - beautiful acronym - Thank You for explaining. EDAGDWG to You too! :-)

Hello Hare Krishna Food for life, I'm sorry that You have this problem and thank You very much for telling me about it. Right now I don't know how to fix it, but will look into it. Meanwhile I hope You won't have this problem with other of my videos.

Hello Muri Salin. Thank You for Your comment. Your comment is music to my eyes! Muri where are You located?

@@GardenSvideos I live in Finland 🤶🎅👩‍👧‍👦☃️❄️🌨️ , I have very big and old 🌺 , but my girlfriend kill hin ☹️

Wow! That's far from here!I checked Your channel page - You have lots of book marks on several subjects in Your 'playlists': homeless, stone, musical instruments .....

:-)

Hello Shabham Blswas,We have so many wild roosters and chickens here, because one young man in the neighborhood is a cook in the restaurant and when he comes from works he brings them rice so they come from far and wide to live here. :-) :-( As for eating the wild roosters here - I am told that they have parasites, so people who want to eat them first catch them and give grow them in the cage for a while while giving them medicine against worms. As for me - well I'm last half a century vegetarian. : -)

I'm vegetarian too... I was just joking.... But sometimes it's annoying to hearing their voices all the time.. Even my place I have the same problem... Anyway happy gardening and am delighted and glad to see your adenium collection love from India

Hello Shubham Biswas Thank You for reply because they're making those sounds all the time, I no longer 'hear' them. But on beginning it was very desturbing. Love from Hawaiip.s.: I don't know why, but Your comment disappeared, so I'm copying it here: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~You wrote: I'm vegetarian too... I was just joking.... But sometimes it's annoying to hearing their voices all the time.. Even my place I have same problem... Anyway happy gardening love from India