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Showing posts with label how to graft adeniums. Show all posts
Showing posts with label how to graft adeniums. Show all posts

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.