Month: July 2015

Plant discount codes and coupons codes have been extended through August 20, 2015 on the AdeniumRose Company website for all cactus, adeniums, plumerias and succulents.  Remember to put in the codes during checkout to get the discount.  Do not use Amazon Checkout to use the codes. The Amazon checkout does not have a method to put in coupon or discount codes for the plants. The free shipping coupon code is always on the first page of the Adeniumrose website. Remember free shipping does not include soil or jumbo plants. Also, free shipping is only for the continental USA excluding Alaska.

Here are the coupon codes except for the FaceBook coupon codes (please see our Facebook page www.facebook.com/epicgrower):

Use code:   Spec15%Off     Get 15% off coupon from AdeniumRose Company. This coupon is good for orders of $67 or more.  You can use it as many times as you want from now until August 30, 2015

Use code: FreeShip2015   Get free shipping on orders of $97 or more continental USA only.  This coupon excludes Soil purchases, pots and JUMBO Plants.  Jumbo plants are listed as Specials on the website from time to time.  Use it as many times as you want until December 31, 2015

Special notices to clients: Between August 18th and August 24rd we will not be making any shipments from the nursery. We will accept orders and put the plants aside to ship on Tuesday.

First, yes I know plumeria plants are not succulents; however, many followers of this blog collect the colorful flowering plumerias so I’m including them in this blog post. The plumeria plants in southeast are still blooming and we expect them to continue blooming through September in our area. South Florida is in the middle of the tropical rainy season with many thunderstorms dumping inches of rain every day.

The adenium plants, plumerias, prickly pears, echeverias and all our plants are receiving rain every day (no we do not grow under a greenhouse what-so-ever). However even with daily rain we still water the plants once a month and the remainder of the time rely on the time released fertilizer during the summer.  It’s important to remember that water leaches out nutrients from the soil quickly. Since you should be using potting a mix with less than 15% soil the nutrients will be deplete after a couple short months.

In the desert areas, where you get much less rain, we highly recommend increasing watering of your succulent and tropical plants now through early September. Fertilization of the plants increase the growth, health and resistance to problems.

The adeniums (desert roses) and other plants are in their main growth period for the year. If you have not transplanted your adenium plants (if needed) do so now before the end of the month or wait until next year. In small pots the adeniums will push up exposing more of the roots (caudex) as it grows. Under the soil the cramped roots will get twisted so when you do re-pot the adeniums you will have interesting shapes.

We purchased several inexpensive inline automatic fertilization kits and installed them about 2 years ago. No we do not sell the kits. The ones we use are called by EZ-Flow.  We use two 2 gallon EZ-Flow kits per plant section (one with Dyna-Gro Grow and one with Tekt during the summer).  Each watering we alternate the fertilizer so each section gets a dose once every month. EZ-Flow has all types of kits including ones that connect to a hose lines (3/4 or gallon size will work great for most hobbyists).  They are simple to install!

The only plants not out in the open are the Hoyas which like less direct sun than other succulents and cactus plants. The hoya plants are receive 70% sunlight for 8 hours a day in a screened in area. They are doing great. Yes, AdeniumRose Company has increased the watering of the hoyas too!  Plan to see a release of hoya plants in late August or early September.

New adenium plant collectors receiving plants shipments for the first time sometimes experience problems getting the desert rose plant to grow new leaves quickly. Collectors who live in the southern half of the USA have less problems then ones in the middle and northern states.

The adenium plants shipped from AdeniumRose Company are grown in South Florida which is tropical year round warm climate with long hours of sunlight (10 to 12+ hours).  When the plants are shipped they go into water conservation mode and will drop many of its leaves (sometimes all). Many times if the plants are shipped to cooler climates with fewer hours of sunlight they actually go into dormancy.

The normal (natural) time for the desert rose plants to be in dormancy is between December through February in the their native growing environments. In south Florida adenium plant dormancy many times does not truly happen because due to very mild winters the adeniums do not go into full dormancy instead just a slower growth pattern.

In mid and northern states, unless the collector promotes longer growing season through the use of grow lights, dormancy can began as early as late September and go through late April or even May depending upon how far north. Adenium plants will go into dormancy when shipped north because the plant will get less light and cooler weather which the plant responds as if the seasons are changing. When receiving adenium plants we suggest to us Dyna K-L-N when you plant the desert rose and then Dyna-gro bloom every other week for a couple months or until you see new growth.