Spring is a few weeks away in South Florida (we do not know the meaning of winter). The spring adenium plants are almost 100% leafed out and recently added to the Adeniumrose site. There are a few new desert rose flower types and some old ones not seen for a couple of years. Now is the time to look at your adenium plants and change their fertilization schedule from maintenance to growth. We recently increased the percentage of Dyna-Gro Grow and Tekt used so the plants have the nutrients needed for spring growth. The percentage is now the recommended amount by Dyna-Gro. In November, December and first part of January (semi-dormant time) we reduce the percentage by 50%.
The adenium seedlings in the larger 3″ pots, transplanted from the 2″ size pots last November, are ready to be cropped. AdeniumRose company will crop 50% of them within the next 1..2 weeks. The remainder will be available on the website. The 3″ seedlings, on the average, are 2..3 time larger than the standard seedlings.Seedlings tend to grow tall with very few if any branching the first year therefore we crop to form larger caudex growth and branching. Do not expect seedlings to bloom this year. Desert rose plant seedlings usually take 2 years before thy bloom.
The plumerias are all growing well and they started their spring growth. Some have leaves and others sprouted leaf buds. We do not expect to see the flowers for 1..2 months. This past month we received 15 different type of plumeria cuttings to grow. 90% of them are dwarf plumerias meaning they grow smaller branch segments and if grown in the ground they will stay in the 6′ to 8′ height range. If grown in pots the pot size will determine the plumeria plants size. It takes several months to grow a good root system from plumeria cuttings so Epic Grower Company does not expect to release them until mid to late summer (we will wait until they flower for the first time).