Adenium Plant: Soil Mixture, Guide and Tips
Adenium is becoming popular as it produces beautiful flowers and beautiful caudex. So the demand for beautiful desert rose plants is very high, also the price of the plant is very high so we have to take extra care of our adenium. Here are some tips and tricks to make your adenium happy, and detailed information on the soil mixture of adenium/desert rose.
How to make Adenium/Desert Rose soil mixture:
1) Garden Soil
2) Sand or perlite
3) Fungicide
4) Fertilizers
5) Pot with Drainage holes
Making an adenium plant soil mixture is very tricky, as adenium plants need dryness in the soil, the mixture must have more part of sand in it so that the water does not hold for much of the time, as the sand will not absorb the water and the water will drain out of the soil mixture.
let's talk about the % of soil mixture required in the soil mixture of adenium / Desert rose
Garden Topsoil will be 40% + Sand be 50% + Fertilizer 10 %.
let's talk about the % of soil mixture required in the soil mixture of adenium / Desert rose
Garden Topsoil will be 40% + Sand be 50% + Fertilizer 10 %.
1) Garden Topsoil:
Garden topsoil contains both Macro & Micro Nutrients present in it and are very important for the development of adenium plants and roots. So 40% of the soil mixture will be the garden topsoil.
2) Sand or Perlite:
As the Adenium is a desert rose plant it loves the sand and the sand also allows it to spread roots easily also water holding capacity is not good this will not allow water to stay, also it can grow a thick root system so it requires the loose soil mixture and the sand will work great on the soil mixture. So adding sand or perlite to the soil mix will make our adenium a healthy plant.3) Fungicide:
Fungicide is very important in an adenium soil mix this will not only protect adenium roots from fungus attack but if it has got one then it will make fungus to kill and will protect further root rot problems.
4) Fertilizer:
The desert plant doesn't require fertilizer most of the time, as desert plants don't receive nutrients in the soil, but at the time of flowering and the growing season they need extra nutrients so at times, we can give them the organic fertilizer in form of organic compost in the soil mixture to make the soil rich in nutrients twice a year.5) Pot with drainage hole:
Well drainage system in the soil mixture of adenium plants is important. If the water stays for a longer time then the water will damage the root system and may lead the plant to die because of fungus attack. So the drainage system must be very good and this can only be possible when the drainage hole in the pot is very good.
