Friday, August 29, 2014

Adenium Trimming

My Adenium at home is going bald, possibly due to overwatering and lack of fertilizer. After digging in the GCS Adenium forums, as well as seeing evidence from other gardeners (http://mysunnyhappygarden.blogspot.sg/2010/07/adenium-given-haircut.html?m=1)
I've decided to give my Adenium a brutal haircut.


Photo on Friday, 29 August 2014

Update: 15/9/2014:

It has finally begun to produce new stems! Look at the tiny red dot on the end of each trunk!

Photo on 15/9/2014

At first I was afraid I had killed it after repotting it twice!  
Hopefully the 3:3:1 perlite:peat:burned earth soil mix would fare better than the original soil containing burned
earth which had broken down over the years.


Update 23/9/2014:


Instead of 1 new shoot per branch as seen earlier, now each branch is producing like 4-5 shoots! Woohoo!!!

Update 29/9/2014:
Success!!



Update 16/1/2015:


It has finally begun flowering. 5 months from the hard pruning and soil change.


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