Adenium hybrid seeds question about adenium seeds pods and seeds of hybrid plants. I have been growing a desert rose for a few years that I purchased at a local store in my areas. I didn’t know anything about it when I started growing it. I have fallen in love with the plant. It is beautiful and last year it gave me some seed pods. I now have babies growing. I have been reading and learning about the Desert Rose. I found your site and I would like to order some more plants. I love getting the seeds and growing them. I noticed on your site that you have some plants that are grafted. The 3 and 5 packs I am looking at say they are grafted on a caudex. If a plant like this produces seeds, will the seeds match the color of the grafted blooms?
Answer: Adenium hybrid seed pods will develop on grafted plants however there is a catch but first a true story. AdeniumRose Company would rather tell the truth than propagate half-truths. We have purchased seeds from various countries and people including on eBay (not anymore). There are shttps://www.adeniumrose.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=1&zenid=7030c19aebd0fce911ca2d8eed113cc5everal adenium seed sellers on eBay who show hybrid rosy adeniums. They show blue adeniums, orange, totally black, and one even has a drop down menu when selecting or seedlings. We challenged one of the popular vendors by asking them if they guarantee that the seed will produce the flower indicated. The vendor reply by blocking us from buying from them. In otherwise, they would rather deceive a buyer than tell the truth.
Adenium Hybrid Seeds and the Truth
The simple truth is that adenium hybrid seeds collected from hybrid adenium desert rose plants will produce a plant with flowers of the hybrid plant maybe 5% of the time. If you buy seedlings its the same no matter what the seller says or shows on eBay, Amazon, esty, etc.
Presently, reliable adenium seeds and seedlings are available for NON-Rosy adeniums in the following colors: standard adenium plant flower, all white, pink, red, dark red, picochee and now Double Pink.
Why Grafted Adenium Desert Rose Plants?
People grafted adenium plants for two reasons: 1) ensure the flower type form the grafted part of the plant produces the desired result and 2) grow fat caudexes faster by using an mature plant as the base. Planting branches directly in soil will not produce a fat adenium.
Hybrid plants are created by pollinating two different adeniums and then waiting several years to see if it produces a new type of adenium flower. It takes time and years to get new flower types. Once they get a new flower type then they start the grafting process.
Should i let the seed pods grow and open or cut them off. I have one plant with 6, and multiple plants with 3 or more. Are they hurting the growth?
They do take energy away from growing so removing them will help the plant.