Planting ชวนชม Chuan Chohm (desert Rose) From Seed

[stevehaigh]

hi all

this forum seems to overlap with the farming sub forum so not sure if this is the right place for gardening questions but i'll try.

i've got some very nice chuwan chohm ชวนชม (desert rose) plants and they have seed pods. i've let some of the pods go brown and dry and inside there are seeds.

has anyone tried to propagate from these seeds? what should i do? just stick them in some potting soil or is there more to it than that?

http://www.panmai.com/DesertRose/DesertRose.shtml

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adenium

thx steve

PS, just found an answer here but still interesting to hear if anyone has tried this

http://www.k12.hi.us/~rkubota/digiphoto/drose/drose.html

http://www.tropicanursery.com/adenium/propagation.htm

[sbk]

I've never gotten seed pods off my adenium, steve. Of course, it doesn't help that my MIL came and whacked the heck out of it a few years ago, just as it was getting to a nice size.

[opalhort]

This may be an interesting link: Adenium

In any case I would not grow seeds from a hybrid plant since they will never re-produce the same plant as the one where you harvested the seeds from.

The only way to get the same plant would be re-production by cuttings or grafting.

opalhort

[sbk]

Its true, and adeniums are very easy to propagate from cuttings (hence my MIL whacking the heck out of my plant),

But, it could be fun to try growing the seeds, see what kind of flower you get. The unknown can be interesting too opalhort!

[opalhort]

The unknown can be interesting too opalhort!

Yes, this is true for the home gardener as long as the produced plants don't eventually hit the market under a false name.

For us this is a constant problem. Vendors at Chatuchak offer plants under a certain name and when asked how they produced the plants they say from seeds! The plants may look great but if you have a customer asking for a particular named plant we have to be sure of the origin (provenance) of the plants.

opalhort