Question: December19, 2013 – The Desert Rose plant what size container will they be shipped in and do they have buds are flowers now? If not when will they be blooming.
Answer: The desert rose plants is a spring to early summer bloomer depending upon your climate. The adenium plants are not shipped in a container. They are shipped barefoot which means no soil. Desert rose, Adenium, plants are succulents that are desert water thrifty plants. Cactus and succulents are dormant during the winter months and then leaf out during spring (in southern states they leaf out late winter) before they flower. However, many times Desert Rose plants will flower before leafs develope depending upon the amount of water they receive and nutrients in the soil.
People grow adenium plants throughout the USA and people in the North learn that they need to be protected from cold. If you are familiar with growing other succulents or cactus type plants then you will do well with these desert rose plants.
During the winter months AdeniumRose Company LLC ships the adenium plants with 72 hour warmers to help protect them from the freezing cold weather. They are not flowering now and if they were they would lose the flowers during shipment. Most collectors obtain their desert rose plants in fall and late winter so the plants are ready for blooming in a couple months if treated right. Customers in the southern states (FL, GA, Al, MS, LS, TX, NM, AZ, Southern CA) buy year round due to their more temperate climates.
AdeniumRose Company is based in Miami Florida which is a topical climate. The plants do go semi-dormant (grow slower) and lose some of their leaves but not all because of our extreme southern location. Our tropical location makes it a great place to grow desert rose plants for our USA clients. example: We obtain a shipment of adenium plants in late September (potted last week of September) and all the adenium plants have tons of leafs. Plus, two of the adenium plants varieties flowered already.
The plants in the AdeniumRose Company nursery are grown in open are not under nursery nets which makes the adenium plants stronger (weak ones die) but we have less control of when they bloom. In most areas the USA, the adenium plants will start going dormant in October – November time frame and lose their leaves but not in south Florida.
P.S: We are receiving another shipment this weekend from Thailand ans should be ready in 3 months just in time for spring!
One of my plants has developed a “loose skin” on the outside. When pressing against it, it is not solid (hard) like my other adeniums, but the plant itself is still green and there is some firmness underneath the outside. Is the plant dead? How did the plant get this way? Too much water/not enough? Most of my plants defoliate inside in winter (including this one) so its hard to know how often to water them. Should I hold on to the plant and hope for signs of life in spring or pitch it? Give it more water or less than the others?
The adenium plant is shoudl still good. However, you need to removed the loose skin if it is rot. If the loose skin is a dry brown skin then its not rot just a bit too much moisture as against the skin at one time but t dried out OK. Adenium plants will fight some rot problems on their own especially as they get older. You may want to use a grow light to help the desert rose plant a bit and get it out of dormancy early to prevent the problem from causing more issues. Make sure the adenium plant is not against a window that is colder than 450 over a period of time.
Good afternoon. I have 3 Desert rose plants (bought from you guys in Miami) that has grown to be 3 feet high by 1 foot
they are in Tallahassee but I would like to ship them to Melbourne FL.
How can I do that? any special bag, box or container? Also can I cut them so they don’t wait that much?
Only reason I’m doing this, is because they used to belong to my sister who passed away and my mom wants them. Otherwise I would get other ones from you.
Thanks for your time.
Sounds like the desert rose plants are doing well. It’s better to ship them bareroot (without soil). I would not cut them smaller at this time of you are shipping them now. If you are shipping them in 2 months then you can crop them now, let the adenium plants recover in their present container and then un-pot them for shipment.
hello there, I have bought adeniums this year 3-in-1 and a 3 pack, the 3 packs are doing really well, starting to grow leaves. The adenium 3 in 1 has a problem. I crops away the bad part of the tip and put cinnamon for a good measure to prevent infection. Now it looks like that same tip still is shriveled. I’m afraid I will lose that graft coz it’s all the way to the graft site, its not completely dead, just shriveled/wrinkled unlike the other grafts w/c look healthy. Today I removed the whole desert rose plant from soil, washed and will crop dead roots. What do you think? The plant itself looks firm all the way, I see and feel some soft roots w/c probably dead . Any other advice that you can give me ?
Lets start with the adenium roots first. When plants are transplanted/moved/etc its normal for some of the small roots to die. They turn color/get soft/turn color/start to dry up and just die. You can removed them without hurting the plant. Any roots that are oozing/discolored mushy then they need to be completely removed back to good root color. When you crop the roots them do NOT REPLANT the desert rose for 7..10 days depending upon your environment. The 3-in-1 plant how may grafts does it have? can you send an image?