Thursday, March 13, 2014

Adenium Obesum - Desert Rose

I purchased the seeds online from a seller that buys wholesale seed from Africa direct from the grower.
I have purchased 2 packets with 10 multi-coloured seeds in each packet. This will be a trial run for me, depending on how successful I am with them. Hopefully I will eventually grow a variety in my collection of Adenium plants.

This is the link to the website and I can assure you it is worth a look.  I had no idea of the variety that is available and it has really set me on a mission to gather a collection.  The flowers are beautiful and the structure of the plant is a piece of art.


This information I share below is from the above website- 

About the Adenium

Adeniums are native to East Africa - their common name is Desert Rose
Adeniums variety of colours- white, black, red, pink, yellow, purple and blue - from seed they can revert to the most common colour which is pink.

Planting the seeds

  • First soak the seeds in water for 2 hours
  • Plant each seeds 3 to 4 mm deep in coarse perlite
  • cover the seeds in a mix of medium perlite and coco peat or peatmoss
  • keep seed moist not wet at all times
  • Place in good light (not sun, lights are best)  I kept mine in a hot house with shade in Feb bringing them out into the sun on days that were not too hot - and they shot 9 from 20 seeds)
  • Keep the area they are in between 18-27c is best
  • Pot up as soon as you can handle the seedlings, use a very well drained mix (see below for mix)
  • they must be in a humid environment, under glass or in a mini hot house


Adenium potting mix - not for germinating seeds, this is for plants only

  • 8 parts coarse perlite
  • 3 parts 4mm stone (washed gravel or very coarse river sand
  • 3 parts aged cow manure
  • w parts pine bark
  • 2 parts high quality potting mix
  • 2 parts coir

The mix I used



Transplanted from seed mix to plant potting mix, my 9 plants from 20 seeds




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