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This post is also a question for the hive mind: as sometimes happens, one of these followed me home from work, and now all of them, both the ones left at work and the one I bought, are dropping lots of leaves and looking kind of miserable. We've had these since either December or March; they behaved themselves just fine until the last few weeks. Googling the species brings up a lot of complicated-sounding care advice that, frankly, makes me a little angry I bought one, but I'm willing to work with mine if we can learn to communicate. I gather that I haven't been watering enough: does anybody have any other advice?
(UPDATE 26 Dec. 2008: It wasn't just watering. I did figure it out well enough to write a profile about Adenium obesum, but the plant in question was gone a long time ago.)
They can be temperamental and drop leaves occasionally which might not mean anything, but check for mealy bugs.
ReplyDeleteHere's what we recommend: Bright sun. Water every 1 to 2 weeks depending on how hot it is. Make sure they're in a fast draining soil, and that they drain away.
We use powdered nutrients, as the roots will burn easily, except in this case you may try liquid kelp at a low strength. To get them to bloom, we like fish bone meal.
But chances are the problem is the soil they're in.
Aren't they like Euphorbia trigona in needing a rest? It seems sort of logical that a drylands plant would put off water-rich leaves while the temperatures are high.
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