Adenium Seed

Adenium seed can be produced from natural-pollination or hand-pollination. Generally the best hybrid adenium come from hand-pollination.
The seed as result of natural-pollination can not be controlled to get a good next generation. This seed generally only be used for trunk-material due to the form of caudexes can be made an artistic plants.
Most of us know that adenium plant is “a desert plant” that is why called as “desert rose”. The major factors to get sustain generation in desert area is the wind. Adenium seed has hair, slight-skin and hollow-space, therefore easy blown by the wind. When the seed is ripe, then the seed pod will be broke and spread the seed. A couple of seed pod usually produces 100 to 150 of seed and takes 80 days to be ripe.
Adenium seed will be dormant until they find a suitable place to grow, they will react against water. The penetration of the water to the seed will cause the embryo produce a hormone. This process also creates enzyme which will stop dormancy of the seed.
After pass dormant period, the seed start to live through respiration and transform food-reserves become energy. The energy will trigger a sustain process for seed casing separation, create a root, trunk and leaf. The above process kotiledon (part of seed contain food-reserve) will be move-up to the land surface. Kotiledon is used for food-reserve and fotosintetic
Actually adenium is easy to germinate. However there are seed will not want to germinate due to such factor i.e seed fertility; wrong handling seed when harvest, and planting process of the seed.