Has your adeniums already bloomed? If you live in south half of the USA your adeniums should already have flowered. Now is the time to crop the long branches to give the adenium plants time to grow new ones. There are several articles on this blog concerning cropping/pruning your adeniums. If you are growing seedlings and the caudex is 1/2 inch or thicker it’s time to crop them too.
We cropped the majority of our desert rose seedlings in late March and over 90% of them have produces 2 or more branches just below where we cropped them. It’s important to crop your branches while you still have 2..3 months in the growing season. The new branches on the adenium seedling are now getting to be 2″ to 3″ long and they are almost ready to release on the Adenium Rose site. We call our seed grow desert rose plants seedlings until they are 16 months old. The ones cropped were started in late April of 2014. The majority of the pruned desert rose seedlings from 2014 have a caudex of 3/4″ to 1″ in size (some larger).
The plumerias started to bloom late March and they are still blooming. We are using the Dyna-Gro Grow and Dyna-Gro Tekt on them with great results. Our system alternates so the plants get the Tekt and the Grow once a month. The rest of the month we let nature handle all watering (summer is our rainy season in tropical South Florida).
The hoya plants received in late April are doing great. We lost less than 5% of the hoya “wax plants” imported from Thailand. All hoya plants are producing new leaves and should be ready for release in August. Adenium rose company has started to put them on a regular fertilization schedule using Dyna-Gro foliage and Tekt. when we first received them we used Dyna-Grow K-L-N.
Received my adeniums from Thailand and planted them .It has been a month , the branches are getting brown . What am I doing wrong ? I ordered soil mix & fertilizers from you hoping to save them .Please help me with your advice. Thanks.
The problem with shipping small order from Thailand is that they take too long to arrive and tend to rod due to the summer heat. If they are turning brown it sounds like you are getting either root or tip rot.
I bought a large adenium swazicum 2 years ago. I’ve been letting it just grow on its own because I didn’t know anything about adeniums other than I liked how it looked. But now I feel that I want it to have more of a busy canopy look. I live in Bakersfield, Ca. Last year it began blooming in June and gave me hundreds of blooms up until it started dormancy in October, so I never pruned it. My adenium has 3 major branches that each have several small skinny long branches (many with their own tiny branches). I’m considering pruning the small long skinny branches back to a few inches off the 3 main branches. If I prune now will I still get beautiful blooms this year? Will this also allow the skinny branches to come in thicker?
You many or many not get the blooms. It depends on how long it takes the new branches to grow. If you are worried about the blooms crop after flowering. If you want more growing time to shape the plant do it now.