Desert Rose (Adenium Obesum) | 5+ seeds | House Plant | Bonsai

Please find for sale 5+ fresh seeds for Adenium Obesum more commonly known as Desert Rose.  This succulent with glossy green leaves and red-pink flowers is widespread across Africa and the Arabian Peninsula, so in the UK it needs to be grown under glass all year. It is however and extremely popular choice for bonsai, in part owing to the swollen caudex, which stores water.

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Adenium are very easy to grow, as long as you give them what they need to thrive and they usually germinate within 7 to 10 days.

Germination Guide 

• Soak seeds in warm water for 1 day
• Fill a seed tray with a quick draining potting mix ideally 50/50 mixture of Cactus Compost & Perlite
• Place the seeds on the surface, spacing them about 5cm apart
• Barely cover the seeds with the potting mixture.
• Water thoroughly and allow to drain
• Keep in a warm, bright place but out of full sun at ideally 25-29c - use grow lights or a heat mat if you have them.
• Water the seeds thoroughly once every week but mist the surface with a spray bottle whenever it appears to be drying out
• Do not allow potting mix to become waterlogged or dried out
• Move tray into full sunlight once seeds germinated
• Transplant the seedlings when they have at least three sets of true leaves

Olly's General Guide to Seed Sowing!

I love sowing seeds and it runs in the family - dad, granddad and finally my great-granddad for whom the hobby helped him get over his experiences in the Great War. I still get a big kick when I see the first seedling poking through from a new plant that I have never sown before or been successful at. However, even the most experienced gardeners draw "blanks" from time to time. Whilst I sow all the seeds that I sell so I know that they are viable, some are trickier than others and problems can arise so here are some tips to make "blanks" few and far between:

1) Don’t Rush! Tempting though it is when that packet arrives in the post to simply bung the seeds in some compost!

2) Google and YouTube are your friends! Take some time so see the methods other people use to germinate the seed. 

3) Think Nature! What conditions do seeds face? For example a seed from a tropical plant will fall to the warm, wet and dark jungle floor. A seed from the mountains of Europe will fall to the floor in Autumn, then have to endure months of freezing temperatures before germinating in the spring. So as growers, what we are trying to do is to simulate the conditions that the seeds will naturally experience and there are plenty of tricks that can be done to short cut the processes somewhat.

4) Good compost pays dividends. The best investment you can make is to purchase three bags - one of potting compost, one of vermiculite and one of horticultural sand. With these three bags I can make up whatever soil type a particular seed likes (although for most seeds I find a 50/50 mix of compost and vermiculite works just fine) 

5) Rot is your enemy. The single biggest danger to seed germination is rot - either before or after "damping off" the seeds germinate. To reduce the risk, ensure you have good free draining soil mix and that it is moist but not wet. Unless the seed variety absolutely requires it I prefer NOT to cover my seeds trays with plastic bags, Whilst germination is often faster this way, it greatly increases the risk of rot. I prefer to place my seed trans inside a watertight plastic tray and water from the bottom - airflow over the surface reduces the risk.