Has your adeniums already bloomed? If you live in south half of the USA your adeniums should already have flowered. Now is the time to crop the long branches to give the adenium plants time to grow new ones. There are several articles on this blog concerning cropping/pruning your adeniums. If you are growing seedlings and the caudex is 1/2 inch or thicker it’s time to crop them too.
We cropped the majority of our desert rose seedlings in late March and over 90% of them have produces 2 or more branches just below where we cropped them. It’s important to crop your branches while you still have 2..3 months in the growing season. The new branches on the adenium seedling are now getting to be 2″ to 3″ long and they are almost ready to release on the Adenium Rose site. We call our seed grow desert rose plants seedlings until they are 16 months old. The ones cropped were started in late April of 2014. The majority of the pruned desert rose seedlings from 2014 have a caudex of 3/4″ to 1″ in size (some larger).
The plumerias started to bloom late March and they are still blooming. We are using the Dyna-Gro Grow and Dyna-Gro Tekt on them with great results. Our system alternates so the plants get the Tekt and the Grow once a month. The rest of the month we let nature handle all watering (summer is our rainy season in tropical South Florida).
The hoya plants received in late April are doing great. We lost less than 5% of the hoya “wax plants” imported from Thailand. All hoya plants are producing new leaves and should be ready for release in August. Adenium rose company has started to put them on a regular fertilization schedule using Dyna-Gro foliage and Tekt. when we first received them we used Dyna-Grow K-L-N.