Adenium - home care

Adeniums were brought to us from the island of Socotra. They are represented by two varieties: a succulent with a single or branched thick trunk and a shrub with an underground massive caudex. On their thick branches a few leaves grow and many beautiful flowers. In nature, it grows huge. Like all kutrovye, adenium - a poisonous plant . Therefore, small children and pets should not contact him. On sale, like a houseplant, meets fat adenium and its hybrids. It is more difficult to purchase Adenium Curly, Somali and Bokhman.

How to care for adenium?

The conditions for growing Adenium are the same as for all succulents:

1. Light . Adenium in the apartment should be placed on southern windows or placed on a well-lit and hot balcony.
2. Watering . To water moderately. The room needs less water than in the open air.
3. The soil . The ground should be easy to pass air, be nutritious and slightly acid. At the bottom must lay drainage and quite a bit of land.
4. Rest . In winter, you need a rest period at a temperature (+7 - + 15 °). In the period of rest, watering the adenium is not enough, and at low temperatures, and do not water at all.
5. Top dressing . It will be enough to feed 2-3 times during the summer.
6. Pruning . To spend better in the spring: for reception of adenium with one trunk, it is necessary to make pruning on 1/3 of all trunk, and for a bush - as it is possible more low.

Adenium transplantation and multiplication

The best time to buy a plant is spring. Bringing home a flower it must be transplanted into another soil.

How to transplant Adenium?

• as a soil for adenium, you need to take a garden or turf ground with the addition of sand, so that it is not too humid and well letting in air to the roots;
• The acquired seedling (young plant), as it grows, requires an annual transplant;
• when transplanting, it should be borne in mind that in young adenomas the formation of roots takes place deep and they need high pots, and in adult flowers, roots grow in breadth, and pots in the form of pots are desirable;
• an adult plant is transplanted every two years.

Propagate Adenimums by seeds or cuttings, dried on a cut.

Reproduction of Adenium Seeds

1. Fresh seeds are growing faster.
2. Soak in a warm solution of epin and put a bowl for 4 hours on the battery.
3. In the substrate, make a small depression, horizontally lay the seed, sprinkle a layer of soil on top with no more than 5 mm.
4. Place in a greenhouse with a temperature of + 25-30 °.
5. Peel from the seed must be removed immediately, under it rotting may begin.
6. After the emergence of seedlings, put in the brightest place or under the lamp.
7. After a month, gradually accustom the plant to room conditions.
8. Water should be carefully, overflowing and drying out are fatal for tender roots.

Propagation by cuttings is very easy, for this purpose it is enough to plant them in sand or a substrate for adult plants, but with such a reproduction adenius does not form a caudex.

Possible problems of care for adenomy at home

1. The fact that the adenium begins to turn yellow and fall off leaves, there are many reasons: dry content, hypothermia, draft, a sharp change in the conditions of its content.
2. In winter, do not hold the adenium next to the moisture-loving plants, it can lead to fungal infection.
3. Due to excess nutrients, at high temperature, ugly and weak growths are formed, and this plant is more beautiful with a low but broad stem in the base.
4. Sometimes Adenium for some reason does not bloom. This can be due to improperly selected soil, lack of trim and mandatory rest in winter.

Florists are very fond of adenium, not only for the very beautiful and long flowering, but also for the fact that with the help of pruning, it is possible to create various images from it.