We received may questions concerning the flower type and the seeds to grow them. There are MANY dishonest people seedling adenium sees on Ebay and on the internet. On the AdeniumRose Company website it clearly starts when buying seedlings that the adenium seeds used are from hybrids and only a percentage will look like the parent plant.
Lets explain the misconception people having when buying and growing adenium plants from seeds.
Rule one: If the adenium seed is NOT from a hybrid desert rose plant then the resulting plants will 98% of the time look just like the parents flowers. Please note 97% of the adeniums you see selling on the internet, in Lowe’s tm, in Home Depot tm and other places are HYBRID plants.
Rule Two: If the desert rose seeds are from a hybrid plant then only a portion of the plants grown from its’ seeds will have flower just like the parent. Currently Epic Grower Company does not offer adenium seeds. The plants that produce adenium flowers that do not look like the parent adenium plant are then check and if the flower type looks interesting/new the adenium grower will use the new HYBRID FLOWER TYPE plant to crop branches from it to make more of the same plant.
Rule Three: There is NO WAY to force a seed to grow a flower like its parent adenium plant which is way plants are grafted. Grafting a branch for a hybrid adenium plant onto a standard adenium based forces the plant to produce flowers like the hybrid above the graft line. The flowers that grow below the grafted branch will be normal adenium flowers.
When do I use fertilizer on my seedlings? What do I use? I live in Las Vegas, NV.
I shop at Star Nursery.
When will they flower? Do I punch back the new center of growth to make it produce more side growth?
What is the care of these plants to make them stay like Bonsai plants?
Please advise.
Thank you,
Gary Klein
Seedlings take 2 to 3 yrs to bloom. Fertilize once a month using Dyna-Gro Grow or a time released 7-7-7 or 7-7-10. Yes you crop the plant to force more branches about 1 month before spring.