Growing unpretentious Adenium from seeds at home and recommendations for reproduction

Not falling in love with adenium is difficult. Under favorable conditions happy flowering ¾ year, grows fast, unpretentious in care (for example, Adenium obese).

For lovers of flowers with an exotic look, it gives the opportunity to grow almost real bonsai in a ridiculously short time.

Adenium will definitely show all its advantages to anyone who can give the plant enough light, and will not flood protection from the cold.

Growing conditions

How to grow?

Adenium is grown by seeds, cuttings, layering, grafting method on the basis of oleander or the same type of plant.
Basics of successful cultivation at home the young shoots of Adenium are:

• The ability to provide a comfortable temperature;
• Sufficient lighting;
• The optimal duration of daylight hours (12 hours);
• Strictly dosed watering;
• Air-permeable soil;
• The presence of a drainage layer;
• Drainage holes in the pot.

Priming

Three options soil for adeniums:

1. Peat from coconut (3 h.), Vermiculite (1 h.), Humus (1 h.), Foam plastic (2 h.), Peel from earthen nuts (1 h.), Small crushed stone (1 h.).
2. Solid fractions of crushed stone or similar material (8 h.), Coconut peat (1 h.), Vegetable fiber (1 h.).
3. Ready soil for cacti.

Choosing dishes

Types, size of flowerpots:

• Pot Material does not affect the development of adenium.
• Tanks should have drainage holes.
• Until the plants are three years old, each copy preferably transplanted annually, choosing small in diameter, moderately deep tanks.
• In parallel, you can engage in giving an interesting form, protruding above the soil roots.
• Mature plants can be kept in wide, small vases.

Temperature and watering

Temperatures comfortable for the plant and watering:

• Summer: at 23-38 С ° (irrigation of leaves on hot days, moderate systematic watering as soon as the soil dries out completely after the last moisture; daily moderate watering on days when it is hot and stuffy around the clock).
• Winter: at 13-18 С ° (poor watering when detecting a decrease in elasticity in the lower part of the trunk — caudex), at 10-13 ° C (watering should be reduced to a minimum, otherwise the root system will rot).

Cultivation from seed (sowing rules)

Adenium seeds have shorter service life - After purchasing the planting material, do not tighten it with germination. The optimal period of planting adenium seeds: from April to the end of August.

The effort required to grow seedlings of Adenium is paid off by obtaining specimens with high decorativeness caudex.

For Adenium, growing from seed at home begins with pre-prepared tank with soilconsisting of sand, crushed granules of charcoal and verimkulita.

It is permissible to replace the last component with small fraction gravel, pretreated with boiling water or 20 minutes later in a red-hot oven for disinfection.

Before placing the seeds in the ground capacity with him need keep at least 12 hours in a warm place, to achieve a good warm-up of the soil mixture.

Soaking the seeds for half an hour in a warm light solution of potassium permanganate with water will reduce the likelihood of developing Adenium's fungal disease

Having distributed the seeds on the ground in the grooves or individual shallow excavations, sowing Adenium lightly sprayed, and then sprinkled with soil. But no thicker than 3-4 mm. Crib is covered with plastic wrap to create greenhouse conditions.

Seed containers should be kept warm around the clock.

It is highly desirable that the temperature around and inside the pot was not below 32 ° C.

More low rates (lower limit of 22 ° C) will increase the risk rot development inside seeds and their subsequent death, delayed the process of hatching survivors.

Under favorable conditions sprouts appear in 3-7 days. However, some seeds can germinate three times longer.

Young sprouts sprayed with warm water as the soil dries around them, air twice a day.

Landing

At the end of two months from the date of germination of seeds, young adenium is ready for transplantation. If there is enough space in the tank, and the seedlings are green, “cheerful”, they actively grow and gather volume in the “waist”, then can be kept in the manger longer.

Seeds Adenium, photo

Seedling transplant

Planted grown seedlings can be in a separate container with the same soil as in the greenhouse. Not terrible to the plant and the change of soil on the finished store soil for cacti.

Having transferred the seedling of Adenium together with a clod of earth to a slightly moist new place, the first meager irrigation is done no earlier than a week later.

How do Adenium seeds germinate?

Healthy seeds can start souring. from the third day after sowing. First, a hook arches out of the ground. A straightened sprout resembles a dense, light green carrot shape with a pair of tiny leaves on top.

When growing Adenium from seed, when will it bloom?

The color of flowers may differ from the characteristic of the buds of adenium-parent, as hereditary characteristics are not always transmitted to the seeds. The first buds appear on a two-, four-year plantif he is provided with proper care.

Cuttings

Benefits:

• An established stalk may please with flowering in the coming year.
• The plant will become a clone of the parent and keep the color and shape of flowers.

Disadvantages:

• Cuttings take root not always.
• In specimens grown from cuttings, sometimes difficult to form volumetric caudex increased decoration.

Material for grafting adenium cuttings receive after trimming the parent bush. It is more rational to take material from the plant at the beginning of summer, after installing a stable warm weather - sufficient lighting and a warm atmosphere increase the percentage of rooted plants.

Adenium cuttings can be of any length, but the easiest 12 to 15-centimeter "sticks" take root with a few leaves.

Not everyone Solutions for early rooting can be used for adeniums. Therefore, it is better to give the cutting to dry in air. 30 minutesand then gently stick it into the ground centimeters 5 deep, and then cover capacity from transparent polyethylene, a plastic half-liter glass, a jar of glass.

Important conditions of care rooting cuttings:

• Soil (2 parts of perlite with 1 part of vermiculite or 2 parts of pure sand, 2 parts of sphagnum, 1 part of perlite) should be steadily slightly wet, but not wet;
• The plant should be provided with heat (25-35 ° C) and light;
• Use with irrigation any solutions with stimulants. can't.

Reproduction by cuttings in water

Growing the root system in cuttings of adenium - pure lottery.

With a probability of 50-70% a cut branch may start to rot.

But in some flower growers, the cuttings still give roots with this method of germination.

Rooting

How to root Adenium? For rooting cuttings need from crescent to three. The root system of branches, separated from the bush and planted in the ground in warm weather.

If the procedure is carried out in early spring or late autumn, outside a special greenhouse, then under a pot with cuttings you need spread mat with heating function. Either place the container directly on the line of the heating system near the window.

Graft

Florist available two ways vaccinations:

• Flat (flat).
• V-shaped.

It is possible that the first vaccination option more rational and less traumatic for the plant.

Insofar as:

• no need to split the stock place on the parent bush;
• the graft itself has not two, but one cut (flat);
• cut cuttings tight to the stock.

In addition, the place of flat-grafting looks more aesthetic, with its help on one "stump" you can plant cuttings from different bushes.

For the classic V-shaped graft from the rootstock remove the apical part. The remaining stump is cleaved, and a previously prepared cutting is inserted into the resulting gap, the lower edge of which is cut symmetrically from two sides.

Mandatory conditions for a successful vaccination in any way:

• rootstock and graft must be healthy;
• on the graft should be at least one live kidney;
• grafted shrub and plant, which gave the cutting, should to be in growth;
• edge trimming needs to be done disinfected instrument;
• grafted plant need to contain in comfortable conditions;
• the junction must remain motionless.

For a flat graft:

• Vetka stock should be larger diameterthan graft (or the same).
• Connect the ends of the plant should have straight cut.
• After connecting the formed branch neatly wrapped with polyethylene, and then securely inoculate, using adhesive tape, electrical tape.

When do they start blooming after vaccination?

Flowering varietal adeniums and vaccinations comes after a few months.

Adenium is a very "grateful" plant. For a simple care and warmth, both soulful and very real, he will definitely thank for his exuberant flowering. And experienced growers experimenters will allow buds of different color on one branched bush.

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