Baby #1
David Clulow
Some time ago I imported a graft from Mr. Ko labeled ‘Baby #1’. This was very slow growing. It flowered last week for the first time, two years after importing it. I had suspected it was a cultivar of A. boehmianum owing to its huge leaves and when it flowered - it was pure boehmianum, and not a very good form either. Perhaps it will improve as it gets older.
I am attaching a photo of my graft of ‘Baby #1’. Also one of my better A. boehmianum seedlings raised from wild collected seed imported from Köhres Kakteen of Germany.
As we were recently on the subject of why to graft, I have included a photo of this seedling together with a graft of it (the seedling). You can see how much more rapidly the graft has grown as against the original seedling.
‘Baby #1’ is possibly a parent of ‘Desert Star’ which is in turn a parent of ‘Beauty of Taiwan’ one of the most floriferous cultivars I know. Therefore I suspect strongly that boehmianum is a grandparent of ‘Desert Star’ or dare I say 25% A. boehmianum and 75% A. obesum white form.
gar...@aloha.net
since you might be experience with growing more hybrids of adenium
than others in this group, I would like to ask you:
which adenium has usually most seeds per pod?
I'm getting 9 to 37 good seeds per half-pod plus 1 or 2
underdeveloped, but have experience with only very few (3 hybrids)
vladimir
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