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Showing posts with label adenium grafting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label adenium grafting. Show all posts
24 April 2016
Conjoined Adeniums:
There really is no objective to this experiment other than to see whether it will succeed even indoors in winter, with just T5HOs and a heating mat as support for the effort. In our wild, pathetic dreams we might come close to the breathtaking potentials of adeniums in nature. But really, I'm just trying to save space.
21 June 2015
Frankendeniums!
Grafting Adeniums
Original posting: Dec 30, 2014 3:22 PM
Most adeniums do not look as good as they do by accident. More often than not, adenium stocks with unusual, attractive blooms are grafted onto carefully-grown plants with the best-looking caudices. If you do not mind having 53 plants blooming in the same color, you're fine and should never have to worry. But most people prefer variety and few are willing to wait out the four or five years it will take for a healthy plant to develop a decent caudex with fingers crossed hoping for anything but pink adenium flowers.
So, like a supermodel born with the wrong nose, pick the plant blooming the kind of flower you like, slice off a bit of it and stick it to another plant with better-looking bod. Voila. Frankendenium.
Original posting: Dec 30, 2014 3:22 PM
Most adeniums do not look as good as they do by accident. More often than not, adenium stocks with unusual, attractive blooms are grafted onto carefully-grown plants with the best-looking caudices. If you do not mind having 53 plants blooming in the same color, you're fine and should never have to worry. But most people prefer variety and few are willing to wait out the four or five years it will take for a healthy plant to develop a decent caudex with fingers crossed hoping for anything but pink adenium flowers.
So, like a supermodel born with the wrong nose, pick the plant blooming the kind of flower you like, slice off a bit of it and stick it to another plant with better-looking bod. Voila. Frankendenium.
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