Basically adenium is plant that easy to be customized, particularly with the root. Below are the tips to make your adenium plant perform an artistic plant.
1. Select the plant with minimum caudex size 10 cm.
2. Release the plant from the pot, then spray the root and the caudex with water cleanly.
3. Wipe the root with liquid fungicide, and let them dry.
4. Cut the caudexes into 2 parts on the center with sterile knife.
5. Wipe liquid fungicide to the bottom of the caudexes, and let them dry for 3-4 days.
6. Use stereo form, and cut the stereo form fit to the form of the bottom of the caudexes.
7. Stick tightly the stereo form to the bottom of the caudexes.
8. Plant the adenium to the pot.
9. Wait 3 – 4 month, and you will find your adenium create the root with artistic form.
Happy trying …….
Regards
Multa
Thursday, 28 June 2007
Monday, 25 June 2007
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.
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.
Thursday, 21 June 2007
Watering Adenium
"How much" to water Adenium sounds like easy: to support the plant is growing, always need enough water in the soil thoroughly with some coming out of the bottom of the pot. It may be necessary to water a little each time in the winter, usually with the plant not in growth or even dormant, what we need is just to keep the media from going dry.
The question is How often to water: The factors which will be influence are : 1) season 2) environment, 3) media, 4) fertilizer
Growth: Adeniums can use a lot of water - more than most other plants. Insufficient water will impact the plant will not growth as what we need. But to much water will cause the plant will be rotten.
Environment: hot & dry conditions (sufficient of sunlight), Watering every 7-10 days.
Media: Coco peat + Organic fertilizer + fried hull with Very little water retention.
Container size: Large specimen plants require less frequent water, partly because big pots don't dry quickly and partly because large plants are more resistant to dry conditions.
Growth stage: require frequent watering for young plants, they need growing rapidly. More older of the plant more Less frequent watering.
Growth control: regular fertilizer + nutrients will give a toughened plant with hard caudex. (make a schedule each 2-3 days for fertilizer and nutrients)
The question is How often to water: The factors which will be influence are : 1) season 2) environment, 3) media, 4) fertilizer
Growth: Adeniums can use a lot of water - more than most other plants. Insufficient water will impact the plant will not growth as what we need. But to much water will cause the plant will be rotten.
Environment: hot & dry conditions (sufficient of sunlight), Watering every 7-10 days.
Media: Coco peat + Organic fertilizer + fried hull with Very little water retention.
Container size: Large specimen plants require less frequent water, partly because big pots don't dry quickly and partly because large plants are more resistant to dry conditions.
Growth stage: require frequent watering for young plants, they need growing rapidly. More older of the plant more Less frequent watering.
Growth control: regular fertilizer + nutrients will give a toughened plant with hard caudex. (make a schedule each 2-3 days for fertilizer and nutrients)
Germinating adenium seed
I couldn't remember that when is my first time germinating adenium seed. I just feel that it is very easy and don't even try to remember anything about it. Germinating adenium seed in my growing condition is very easy because I have enough warm and sun all year around. There are 4 things I will mention in this article : seeds, soil mix, temperature and light & humidity.
Seed : This must be the main key to success. Adenium seed loses its viability in short time. Fresh adenium seed can germinate in few days. I have never kept record that adenium seed can hold viability for how long. From rough observation, my 2 months old seeds have 100% germination but after 6 months germination decreases significantly. Anyway I believe that viability of seeds depend on fertility of mother plant. Healthy adenium seed should have perfect cylinder shape.
Mix : I found that adenium isn't a selective plant. It can grow in many kinds of mix which well drain. Best thing to do is selecting materials that are readily available at your place. I don't have fixed formula for mix. I normally use coarse sand, coconut peat, rice husk and some decomposed leaves. The approximate ratio is 3:2:2:1. I have never use perlite so I can not give any comments on it. I use the mix said for seed germination and seedling. For bigger plants, chips of coconut husk will be added to provide more porosity.
Temperature : I have never experienced too cold weather. Average temperature in Bangkok is always over 25 C so adenium seeds can be germinated all years around. Anyway I suppose that temperature below 15 C can delay or retard germination.
Light & humidity : Fresh adnium seed may germinate over a night. Light is not necessary for germination in first few days. I always put seed tray under table so it gets only indirect sun light. All seeds should germinate in 7 days. Once seed husk fall off seedlings should receive more light. Until they are 2 weeks old, I give them full sun. Anyway mix have to keep humid at all time. I water seedlings once a day or more if temperature is too high. Within one month seedling can be transplants to 4" pot and grow until flowering.
In tropical climate like Bangkok, adenium seedlings grow very fast. Plants should be watered everyday unless it rains or no sun. If seedling is repotted regularly according to its growth, it will flower within less than one year. Fertilizer can be used to accelerate growth rate. I use even formula soluble fertilizer. Fertilizer can be applied with watering every 10 to 15 days.
By Chuyos Punpreuk, Nov-2000.
Seed : This must be the main key to success. Adenium seed loses its viability in short time. Fresh adenium seed can germinate in few days. I have never kept record that adenium seed can hold viability for how long. From rough observation, my 2 months old seeds have 100% germination but after 6 months germination decreases significantly. Anyway I believe that viability of seeds depend on fertility of mother plant. Healthy adenium seed should have perfect cylinder shape.
Mix : I found that adenium isn't a selective plant. It can grow in many kinds of mix which well drain. Best thing to do is selecting materials that are readily available at your place. I don't have fixed formula for mix. I normally use coarse sand, coconut peat, rice husk and some decomposed leaves. The approximate ratio is 3:2:2:1. I have never use perlite so I can not give any comments on it. I use the mix said for seed germination and seedling. For bigger plants, chips of coconut husk will be added to provide more porosity.
Temperature : I have never experienced too cold weather. Average temperature in Bangkok is always over 25 C so adenium seeds can be germinated all years around. Anyway I suppose that temperature below 15 C can delay or retard germination.
Light & humidity : Fresh adnium seed may germinate over a night. Light is not necessary for germination in first few days. I always put seed tray under table so it gets only indirect sun light. All seeds should germinate in 7 days. Once seed husk fall off seedlings should receive more light. Until they are 2 weeks old, I give them full sun. Anyway mix have to keep humid at all time. I water seedlings once a day or more if temperature is too high. Within one month seedling can be transplants to 4" pot and grow until flowering.
In tropical climate like Bangkok, adenium seedlings grow very fast. Plants should be watered everyday unless it rains or no sun. If seedling is repotted regularly according to its growth, it will flower within less than one year. Fertilizer can be used to accelerate growth rate. I use even formula soluble fertilizer. Fertilizer can be applied with watering every 10 to 15 days.
By Chuyos Punpreuk, Nov-2000.
Wednesday, 20 June 2007
Adenium seed and its problem
There are two main problems in adenium seed. #1 Seed don’t want to grow, #2 Types of seed doe not meet to our criteria.
There 4 parties should have responsible to the above case: seed farmer, seed trader, seed buyer and adenium it self.
Their involved due to :
1. Wrong in handling seed when harvested
• The way to take care the plant should able guarantee nutrition availability for the seed.
• Seed quality worsens fast as fast as time ticking.
2. Wrong in planting
The way and procedure of planting will impact to life survival of the seed. The good quality of the seeds will be fail if wrong handling in planting
• Planting media is not meeting the life requirement of the seed/plant
• Insufficiency sunlight/weather
3. Genetic Problem
• Genetic of”mother plant” will influence seed quality.
• Mostly Adenium in the market currently is Hybrid. For example: yak siau, thai soco, RCN, brazilian, desert night fork, etc.
• Nowdays rarely we found “true type” of the seed, due to produce the seed will take a long time, minimum 5 generation needed.
4. Fraud and limited knowledge of the seed
The seller sells the seed in obsolescent condition.
The terrible one is when the seller has limited knowledge of the seed, they don’t know which the goods seed and bad seed, how to keep the seed always in good condition after they has had harvest.
There 4 parties should have responsible to the above case: seed farmer, seed trader, seed buyer and adenium it self.
Their involved due to :
1. Wrong in handling seed when harvested
• The way to take care the plant should able guarantee nutrition availability for the seed.
• Seed quality worsens fast as fast as time ticking.
2. Wrong in planting
The way and procedure of planting will impact to life survival of the seed. The good quality of the seeds will be fail if wrong handling in planting
• Planting media is not meeting the life requirement of the seed/plant
• Insufficiency sunlight/weather
3. Genetic Problem
• Genetic of”mother plant” will influence seed quality.
• Mostly Adenium in the market currently is Hybrid. For example: yak siau, thai soco, RCN, brazilian, desert night fork, etc.
• Nowdays rarely we found “true type” of the seed, due to produce the seed will take a long time, minimum 5 generation needed.
4. Fraud and limited knowledge of the seed
The seller sells the seed in obsolescent condition.
The terrible one is when the seller has limited knowledge of the seed, they don’t know which the goods seed and bad seed, how to keep the seed always in good condition after they has had harvest.
Tuesday, 19 June 2007
How to Plant Adenium Seed
How to plant Adenium Seed
Basically plant adenium seed is easy. Adenium is easily to grow-up. The seed has a bristle that can be flew by the wind to any where.
If you want to be success in planting adenium, the key is use a sterile media with good quality. You can boil the media and spray with fungicide and put it to the sunlight.
Below is the easy way to plant Adenium:
1. Drawn the seed with water +/- 10 minutes.
2. Put media into pot with composition : Fried hull : Coco peat= 1:1
3. Put ¾ media into the pot.
4. Put seed in horizontal position, the distance between the seed is +/- 1 cm. You can put the seed 100-150 pcs in one pot with diameter 20”.
5. Spread the seed with a little bit media (don’t drawn exceed 1 cm)
6. Spray with water smoothly.
7. Cover with transparent plastic and put into a place with low intensity of sunlight.
8. Spray with water everyday. It will take one week the seed will become seedling.
9. After having the leaf, open the plastic, and keep in the shady place and spray with water.
10. After 2 month, remove each seedling to pot. Media composition: Fried hull: volcano sand = 1:1 (add organic fertilizer).
11. Put the plant into a place with medium intensity of sunlight until the plant having age 3 month, and after that you can put it directly to the sunlight.
Have a nice Planting
Basically plant adenium seed is easy. Adenium is easily to grow-up. The seed has a bristle that can be flew by the wind to any where.
If you want to be success in planting adenium, the key is use a sterile media with good quality. You can boil the media and spray with fungicide and put it to the sunlight.
Below is the easy way to plant Adenium:
1. Drawn the seed with water +/- 10 minutes.
2. Put media into pot with composition : Fried hull : Coco peat= 1:1
3. Put ¾ media into the pot.
4. Put seed in horizontal position, the distance between the seed is +/- 1 cm. You can put the seed 100-150 pcs in one pot with diameter 20”.
5. Spread the seed with a little bit media (don’t drawn exceed 1 cm)
6. Spray with water smoothly.
7. Cover with transparent plastic and put into a place with low intensity of sunlight.
8. Spray with water everyday. It will take one week the seed will become seedling.
9. After having the leaf, open the plastic, and keep in the shady place and spray with water.
10. After 2 month, remove each seedling to pot. Media composition: Fried hull: volcano sand = 1:1 (add organic fertilizer).
11. Put the plant into a place with medium intensity of sunlight until the plant having age 3 month, and after that you can put it directly to the sunlight.
Have a nice Planting
ABOUT ADENIUM
Adenium was from South Africa, Somalia and Arabic such as Yaman and other places in Middle East. From there, Adenium spread, well known and famous in United States, Thailand, taiwan, Vietnam, India and Indonesia . Adenium was plants from Apocinaceae Sp, that the flowers similiar with Plumeria Sp. flowers. Fook Hui Hwa, that's Taiwaneese call adenium, it means Lucky Flowers. And Chuanchom at Thailand, it means Brings luck and prosperous. Have Adenium at our home will gave courage, motivation, happiness, and luck. Adenium was first time hand polination by Dr.Mark A.Dimmitt, a plant curator from Arizona Desert Museum. In 1985, he hand polination Adenium Obesum with Adenium Swazicum that gave us new hybrid call Adenium Crimson Star. Adeniums have been, till recently, comparatively rare and high value succulents. In part this was because they are somewhat difficult and slow under cool conditions and in part due to the need for cross pollination to set seed. The rather complex floral structure means than hand pollination technique is not obvious.
Thus, in the Western countries, where multiple clones were available, slow growth and closed greenhouses meant little seed set while in tropical Asia, where seed set would have been possible, there was, for a long time there was only one clone- "Singapore"; it set no seed and was propagated by cuttings with its primary use being in landscaping., there was, for a long time only one clone and so no seed set- the cultivar "Singapore" which was propagated by cuttings.
Adenium seed from the wild is usually of poor quality due to pests, poor harvest timing and inadequate processing. Something changed in the late 70's- a little seed became available in Asia.
The huge number of seedlings raised all over the world led to selection of elite clones. Hybridizing between these selections was started in USA, Thailand, Taiwan and India. The story of Adenium breeding in USA is well documented else where.
In Asia breeding and selection efforts were probably most intense in Thailand, where the "bubble" economy meant crazy prices for anything new. The Thai growers imported the best material from USA and Taiwan and worked out a very efficient system of propagation by grafting on seedling Adenium rootstock. Breeding and selection, however, continued in Taiwan, partly because a stronger economy could sustain high prices for new hybrids and partly due to their access to the Chinese mainland market.
From the beginning, three "species" were involved in the breeding- Adenium obesum, A. somalense var. somalense and A. swazicum. Pure white clones and variegates were found and propagated. The Thai's propagated almost anything new including a lot of very mediocre material. Taiwan, all along, concentrated on reds (the Chinese consider both, the Adenium as well as the color red as lucky) since that's where the money was. The newest and best reds still come from Taiwan.
A Taiwanese Adenium nursery, fully under plastic greenhouses. The overall standard of plants is much better in Taiwan but so are the prices.
More recently, the introduction of Adenium somalense var. crispum has added considerable variation to flower color, patterns and form as well as added a certain degree of compactness to its hybrids. Current selections tend to be small flowered and of poor form but that should change. Further crosses using A. s. var. crispum holds tremendous promise for the future.
What lies in the future? There is a lot of new material including some second and third generation crosses using the older A. obesum and A. swazicum hybrids. The discovery of two distinct genetic dwarf lines of A. obesum may lead to a range of ultra compact hybrids.
The current worldwide interest in Adeniums augers well for further efforts with breeding and selection- unless there is money to be made, most growers will stop the breeding effort.
In Europe & USA, Adeniums are just entering what could be called mainstream floriculture. Most of these plants are seedlings.
The market is not only USA and Europe but also Asia- for many cultures, the Adenium is a "lucky" plant. In warm and hot regions, Adeniums, grown to potential, can rival Azaleas in beauty and impact of flowering with much more character to the plant form.
Re-write from www.adeniumshop.com
Thus, in the Western countries, where multiple clones were available, slow growth and closed greenhouses meant little seed set while in tropical Asia, where seed set would have been possible, there was, for a long time there was only one clone- "Singapore"; it set no seed and was propagated by cuttings with its primary use being in landscaping., there was, for a long time only one clone and so no seed set- the cultivar "Singapore" which was propagated by cuttings.
Adenium seed from the wild is usually of poor quality due to pests, poor harvest timing and inadequate processing. Something changed in the late 70's- a little seed became available in Asia.
The huge number of seedlings raised all over the world led to selection of elite clones. Hybridizing between these selections was started in USA, Thailand, Taiwan and India. The story of Adenium breeding in USA is well documented else where.
In Asia breeding and selection efforts were probably most intense in Thailand, where the "bubble" economy meant crazy prices for anything new. The Thai growers imported the best material from USA and Taiwan and worked out a very efficient system of propagation by grafting on seedling Adenium rootstock. Breeding and selection, however, continued in Taiwan, partly because a stronger economy could sustain high prices for new hybrids and partly due to their access to the Chinese mainland market.
From the beginning, three "species" were involved in the breeding- Adenium obesum, A. somalense var. somalense and A. swazicum. Pure white clones and variegates were found and propagated. The Thai's propagated almost anything new including a lot of very mediocre material. Taiwan, all along, concentrated on reds (the Chinese consider both, the Adenium as well as the color red as lucky) since that's where the money was. The newest and best reds still come from Taiwan.
A Taiwanese Adenium nursery, fully under plastic greenhouses. The overall standard of plants is much better in Taiwan but so are the prices.
More recently, the introduction of Adenium somalense var. crispum has added considerable variation to flower color, patterns and form as well as added a certain degree of compactness to its hybrids. Current selections tend to be small flowered and of poor form but that should change. Further crosses using A. s. var. crispum holds tremendous promise for the future.
What lies in the future? There is a lot of new material including some second and third generation crosses using the older A. obesum and A. swazicum hybrids. The discovery of two distinct genetic dwarf lines of A. obesum may lead to a range of ultra compact hybrids.
The current worldwide interest in Adeniums augers well for further efforts with breeding and selection- unless there is money to be made, most growers will stop the breeding effort.
In Europe & USA, Adeniums are just entering what could be called mainstream floriculture. Most of these plants are seedlings.
The market is not only USA and Europe but also Asia- for many cultures, the Adenium is a "lucky" plant. In warm and hot regions, Adeniums, grown to potential, can rival Azaleas in beauty and impact of flowering with much more character to the plant form.
Re-write from www.adeniumshop.com
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