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Well, Now these beautiful little adenium seedlings are about 2 months old.
This is the best time to repot them into independent containers, because the nutrient requirement will increase as they grow and also increased chances of overcrowding and due to this the more aggressive ones will siphon supply off the nutrients from their neighbours affecting the weaker ones.
At about 2 months, they are about 2 to 3 inches in length and remember they are not so delicate or sensitive as you might think. You can transplant or repot them easily. But you need to remember few important points during the process of repotting and post transplant care.
Here are some 10 useful points to remember:
To begin! I received these 5 bare rooted baby adenium plants about an year back, gifted by my dearest gardener friend Ram. These travelled over a 1000 miles to reach the destination in a great condition, This is because these are excellent drought tolerant plants and rightly called desert rose. So, you can safely purchase adenium plants online if it’s not available at your local nursery.
For beginners, Adenium Obesum is a succulent plant which stores lot of water in its stem and also the modified part of the stem called the Caudex. We have discussed these in detail in my other adenium videos.
Before I reveal you the three nursery secrets on growing adenium, I will quickly brief you on 5 important care tips for adenium.
Now, lets look into the three Nursery secrets on how to grow adenium from seeds.
To start this story, I purchased adenium seeds from amazon and followed all tips perfectly to germinate adenium seeds. I have shown this in a detailed video some time ago. You can check a link to that episode in the description below. But the result of these amazon seeds was really bad, not even a single seed germinated.
Then recently, one of my adeniums started developing a seed pod. First thing you need to do when you notice adenium seed pod is tie some thread around the pod to prevent spillage of seeds before the seed pod matures and releases seeds. It has a special seed dispersal mechanism by wind, where each seed had this fluffy stuff which is easily carried away by wind. Here you can see, I have protected the seed pod from its natural dispersal mechanism. When the seed pod starts drying and cracks open, it’s the time to harvest the seeds. Separate the seeds by gently pulling this fluffy stuff as shown in this pic.
So these are fresh adenium seeds we just harvested!
Now the first secret to get a great success rate in germination? These seeds
are very delicate and are more prone to fungus. So what you need to do
immediately is pour in some antifungal powder like bavistin or any antifungal
powder like Carbendazin + mancozeb combination like the SAAF brand powder. Coat
the seeds with this antifungal powder whether you keep them aside for storage
or plan to sow them immediately.
Now the second nursery secret: The growing medium. You can use pure sand or some cocopeat mixed in it. What they actually do is, take fine sand and sterilize it by keeping in full sunlight for atleast 2 or 3 days or if you are growing in small scale, you can even microwave this sand. I think if you are using anti fungal powder, this step is perhaps optional.
Now the third secret and then finally the results of this process on day 6, day 10, day 12 and day 15 in the video at the bottom of this post.
And one more thing: You also mix some antifungal powder into this sand or cocopeat. And while sowing the seeds try to maintain a space of atleast an inch to avoid overcrowding. You can do this better, here I have not done this perfectly.
Then finally, you also mix some antifungal into the water or spray can and use the same solution to spray or gently sprinkle some water once every two days. Do not flood the seeds with water, this can damage the seeds.
Please Watch the RESULTS on Day 5 till Day 15 in the Video below.
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.
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.
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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