Showing posts with label adenium. Show all posts
Showing posts with label adenium. Show all posts

Thursday, June 8, 2017

How to Grow Adenium Seeds - Desert Rose

So my fascination with the Adenium Desert Rose continues. After order some seeds Honey, Loungnumchok, kumanto.

Honey 

Kumanto

Loungnumchok


As it turns out they are quite easy root. After soaking them in water for about 24hrs. I used some of my soil mix into some seedling trays and planted the seeds. 




I placed them into a plastic shoe box and covered it. After less than a week they began to spout and they look glorious! I've read that the seedling do not usually grow true to the parents but that's ok, most of the adeniums out there are grafted anyway. 

2 weeks from sowing:

I have a success rate of 4 out of 5 seeds with each variety.


Update: 7/4/17


Update:




Tuesday, May 30, 2017

Adeniums The Desert Rose

So recently, I was at an Asian Seafood place in Orange County called Oc & Lau. This place was simply amazing! Fresh unique seafood, like snails, shrimps, clams, crab and razor clams prepared in the best way possible way. It was quite the dining experience.






Well within the restaurant were these beautiful bonsai'ed caudiform, cactus and succulents. So I asked the waiter if she knew the name of the plants. She didn't, so I asked the owner and he said they belong to his father and that he didn't know either.

Well being the plant lover that I am I did some research and after 4 hrs of google searches I found out that they were adeniums and cyphostemma juttae.

Adenium

Cyphostemma

With further research I learned that adeniums are quite easy to grow and came in so many different varieties. And the are quite beautiful.

Cyphostemma juttae are a bit more rare but an grow quite large and be bonsai'd to look like different things. Which  I find very intriguing.

When I got home I ordered a couple plants and some seeds.

Adenium

RAPHIONACME FLANAGANII

Cyphostemma juttae

Adenium seeds