Month: September 2012

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Adenium plants desert roses growing 2nd bloom this year

This has been a busy summer with adenium plant growing and importing new hybrid

adenium patarapa dream flower
real look of the patarapa dream adenium flower
Adenium plant desert rose flowering succulent plant hybrid flower
Image from Thailand which is different from the actual actual adenium flower

plants from Thailand.  Several of the desert roses succulent flowering plants are blooming for the 2nd time this year and some for the first time since received the adeniums from Thailand. The image to the left is the patarapa dream which we received earlier this summer and they are starting to bloom. This is a great example of desert rose plant received based on an image form Thailand which was not accurate.  The image on the right is the inaccurate image and the left one a picture we recently took of the flowering succulent desert rose plant at our nursery. If you have been reading our blog you will know not to trust images from Thailand or other foreign countries when buying adenium plants.

Images from Thailand and other countries are greatly enhanced and changed by the sellers to get you to buy their desert rose plants. Be careful! if you go to Epic Grower Company you will see a photo gallery of flowering adenium plants and other flowering cactus succulents.  It explains what NOT PROVEN means when viewing the adenium plant flowers.  We import plants from Thailand and until we see the actual flower bloom  with our own eyes the image we show will say NOT PROVEN.

However, just because the adenium succulent flower does not look like the ones sent to use when we purchased the plants does not mean the their is anything wrong with them.   Look at the two desert rose flower images again. The true flower type is even better because of the flower petals shape and arrangement looks better on this adenium.

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Common Desert rose adenium problems and desert rose plant rot

With Fall just around the corner it is now time to check your Adenium obesum for problems before they go dormant for the winter. There is still some adenium growing time so take care of problems now. One of the most common problems is stem root and leaf disease.  Stem rot occurs on the tips of the adenium desert rose plants and progresses down the stem. Leaf rot occurs in adeniums when the leaf is continually wet.

Fist, leaf rot in adeniums is the easy to treat. Just remove the effective leafs on the desert rose plant. Then move the plants location so the leaves dry out. When you water, try not to wet the leaves or put the adenium in a place where the leaves dry quickly. Do not water adeniums in the evenings. If you are in the tropics or desert this is not usually a problem because the nights are  warm enough to dry out the leaves of the adeniums fast.

Stem Roots Rot

Desert rose plant stem root is caused by a fungus. It’s the most common problem with adeniums. The adenium rot is either black, dark drown or yellow.  The actual desert rose rot part can be wet or dry and it processes down the stem of the adenium.  When we see this we do not wait for he plant to fight the problem. We cut the effective part off the plant. When cutting off the stem make sure you look inside the stem. The cut the branch  far enough down so you only see good tissue with discoloration. Adeniums may stop this rot by forming a abscission zone. This zone happens more in desert regains than in tropical, humid and cooler climates. One sure sign of stem rot on desert rose plants adenium obesum is when the leaves start to fall of on the tip and turn brown.

White leaf fungus on adeniums

There is one leaf disease reported that we have not seen yet. It’s a white fungal adenium disease that affects the leaf first and then kills the rest of the plant. The fungus will spread to other adeniums quickly.  If you encounter this problem remove the diseased desert rose plant to an insulation area.  If the problem gets to the stem then the plant usually dies. Again the main cause of this and other leaf problem is caused by to much water. It’s important that the leaf of the desert rose plants does not stay continually wet.