Favorite plant in a pot.

jimmythesnake

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Calibanus hookeri

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Posted : 19/12/2009 2:07 pm

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Cool!
Are those your plants?
I would like to see more if so. 😀

Posted : 19/12/2009 5:00 pm

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This is where we keep plants that can't stay out all winter. My wife has Epiphyllums and Plumerias, all the cool plants are mine.

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Posted : 19/12/2009 5:37 pm

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Calibanus hookeri

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How long does it take for them to get that big? Say from seed or a seedling?

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Posted : 19/12/2009 7:48 pm

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I have had this one for years, can't tell that is has grown much. Still in the same pot I planted it in. I bought this after failing with Dioscorea several times.

Posted : 19/12/2009 8:22 pm

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Jimmy, that calibanus is gorgeous!
Looked it up, and apparently the caudex can grow to 3 feet wide 😯

The one other caudex plant (behind calibanus)...is that a desert rose?

Nice specimens ... I think you're ready for, oh, 30 or 40 palms and cycads and cacti and yucca. 😆
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Posted : 21/12/2009 12:25 am

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Barb
The plant right behind is a Fockea edulis. Its a great caudiciform too. Right now I have 10 species of palms and cycads outside, a total of 25 plants. Plus several cacti, yuccas and agaves to boot.
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Posted : 21/12/2009 10:58 pm

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Wow, and we want to see every one of them!

I've heard of neither before this, but stunning caudex on each.
A real topic of conversation I bet with visitors.
Have either blossomed for you?

At first I thought it resembled an Adenium, (Desert Rose).
Have a look at this one from the internet:

?w=300&h=289

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Posted : 22/12/2009 12:56 am

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[quote="lucky1"
Have a look at this one from the internet:

?w=300&h=289

I would love to have a few if they were more cold hardy, amazing.

There was a site on the web that was selling big ones, but was not cheap.

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Posted : 22/12/2009 2:49 pm

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Hey Aaron, I bet you have a bit of room in front of a sunny window. 😀

Only downside to that is...I've got to move ALL of mine to a spare room, just to make room for people Christmas Day. 👿
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Posted : 22/12/2009 2:58 pm

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I'm just like all the other palm nuts here, no place left for my plants. I've been eyeballing a spot for my new palms, unless my wife decides to put something there first. 😡

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-Aaron-

Posted : 22/12/2009 8:54 pm

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As far as Adeniums go, I haven't been very successful with them. But I have found a paper on growing them fast, Adenium Culture: Producing Large Specimens Quickly by Mark Dimmitt. Turns out I should have treated them like tropicals in the spring and summer, not like cactus. I plan to get a new young plant and turn it into a monster!

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Posted : 22/12/2009 9:14 pm

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Aaron, you'll just have to get a plant in that spot first. 😉

Jimmy, excellent article you refer to. Here's the link.
http://adenium.tucsoncactus.org/large.html

Blows me away how much water they need when it's hot ("treat them like a tomato plant"), and that these have adapted to living between boulders in an arid situation. But they prefer wetlands! i.e. India where it rains 60 inches a year.

Here's my adenium this summer. After reading your article, Jimmy, it's getting repotted tomorrow into a plastic pot, with regular potting soil.
Thanks Jimmy!

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Posted : 22/12/2009 10:58 pm

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WOW, that is pretty. 8)

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Posted : 22/12/2009 11:38 pm

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Barb, I'm just waiting to find a young plant to start with. Find one with some size but not root bound , re-pot it and pour the fertilizer to it. I have had one in small pot for years, its never been happy. Now I know why!
Jim

Posted : 22/12/2009 11:53 pm