I have six seedlings of Mesa Garden’s Adenium arabicum ‘shaba’ 1886.605.
I would like to have some advices about how to obtain fat and interesting caudexes of these plants (and maybe Pachypodium).
In other words: what are the main factors that determine the caudex shape?
Any tips about the size of the pot, sunlight intensity, if pertinent to caudex shape.
Thanks in advance for any tips!
Adenium: how to obtain a fat caudex?
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Re: Adenium: how to obtain a fat caudex?
So here are my A. arabicum shaba sowed March 12th, so they are about 1,5 month old.
These take direct sun until 11:00 a.m., and them are shaded until the next day:
And these take sun all day long, but they are protected by the wooden clapboards, so they have some moments of direct sun and some moments of shade along the day:
I'm impressed with their growth rate and their tolerance to direct sun rays (but it is not summer here...).
Is it time for doing something? Repoting? I'm not sure...probably I'll wait until spring to do anything...
These take direct sun until 11:00 a.m., and them are shaded until the next day:
And these take sun all day long, but they are protected by the wooden clapboards, so they have some moments of direct sun and some moments of shade along the day:
I'm impressed with their growth rate and their tolerance to direct sun rays (but it is not summer here...).
Is it time for doing something? Repoting? I'm not sure...probably I'll wait until spring to do anything...
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Re: Adenium: how to obtain a fat caudex?
Time is all you need to get fat caudices. The plural of caudex is caudices. They grow into them. Take good care of your Adeniums, and they'll fatten up in time. Yours are mere babies!
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Re: Adenium: how to obtain a fat caudex?
Thank you Willian for your comments!
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Re: Adenium: how to obtain a fat caudex?
ops, sorry, I meant William, hope is that your name