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Today we will look into top 5 Adenium Tips and Hacks to apply during rainy season in order to protect it from rot and fungus.
Generally, for most plants, rain water has lot of benefits that ordinary bore or tap water. And growth of plants is accelerated in rains and they appear lusher, greener and cleaner in rainy season.
Please do not skip these few important scientific reasons, am gonna discuss before listing out the top 5 hacks and tips. It will hardly take a minute.
Well, There are many reasons why rainwater is more suitable for plants than tap water or bore water, but the most important is simple chemistry – The rain water is free of chlorine and fluoride which is a cause for leaf burning specially at edges. And more over it has extra oxygen in form of h2o2 – that is hydrogen peroxide in small amounts, which is so beneficial for plants. I have separate videos on H2O2 in gardening and also leaf browning and leaf yellowing topics – you can check that later from my channel.
Another important concept to remember is: Since air is 78 percent nitrogen and nitrogen during rain, is available for immediate uptake for leaves and roots, and this makes the plant more green and lushy.
THE BAD NEWS IS ADENIUMS AND SUCCULENT PLANTS MUST BE PROTECTED IN RAINY SEASON TO PREVENT THEM FROM ROTTING. The problem of death in adenium during the rainy season is NOT from rain. Just like how other plants benefit from rain, Adenium too can derive these benefits of rain, but we need to protect it from rot in rainy season by following some simple practical tips to help Adenium.
Now we will look into top 5 important tips and hacks to protect adenium in rainy season.
- SHIFTING Adeniums to Shelter from Rains: This is the First thing you think about to protect adeniums from rotting in rains, specially if its raining heavily and almost daily. But this is not always practical for many of us. One reason because it also requires sunlight for proper growth and flowering and also for practical reasons like lack of space and stuff like that. You can also consider building a temporary shelter by tying a waterproof plastic sheet or any other similar solution specially if the rain drops are too big and can hit the soft flowers and buds and damage them. But if you have strong winds blowing, this might fail.
- SOIL check: Recheck the soil drainage system. Firstly check the drainage holes and secondly, the soil quality for draining out water immediately. You can consider changing the potting mix and choose a much more well draining type of soil. You can mix something like orchid mix or cactus mix into the soil or lots of perlite, piece of pine bark, more sand and pebbles and things like that. Also do not add any fertilizer into this mix – Because as I already said, during the rainy season Nitrogen in the air is already high.
- USE OF A FUNGICIDE: You have to use fungicide in many situations in rainy season. Firstly spray a fungicide at the beginning of rains and if it raining more frequently, spray every 3-5 days, then atleast weekly once. Then also if you are repotting adenium, you can water your adenium plant with a very dilute solution of fungicide. What I use is a fungicide powder called SAAF – tahts its brand name. Its actually Carbendazim 12% + Mancozeb 63% WP. SO it’s a Double action fungicide – systemic as well as contact fungicide. For beginners, Contact fungicide effect is from spraying on the plant and systemic effect by getting absorbed from the roots into the water conducting tissues of the plant – like how we use systemic antibiotic injections intravenously and topical or contact creams or ointments on our skin – that’s similar to contact fungicide.
The Dosage of this fungicide: You can use a quarter teaspoon per liter of water to spray this fungicide and little more diluted if you are watering your plant.
- PROTECTING YOUR BABY ADENIUMS OR SMALL ADENIUMS, Better shift them to shelter and do not expose them to Rains, because the roots are young and not strong and can rot easily.
- Then Coming to a Simple Adenium Hack in rainy season: Take a polythene sheet. You can also cut this sheet from your shopping bag. Then cover it around the plant and container like this and tie a twist tie or any wire tightly around the stem. This hack can be used if you are not following any of the tips I mentioned in the video, but still want to protect it from rain.
What you can do is – use this hack plus spray a fungicide once a week over the plant. I think this should be the minimum effort to save adenium from rains.
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