The present video, Adenium Bonsai Caudex is Shrinking || How to Revive, is a very essential tutorial video for adenium growers. Friends, if you are an adenium grower, you may have faced the problem that your adenium caudex is shrinking like the adenium bonsai shown in this video. The secret to revive the plant is to find out the reason of shrinking. Adenium caudex shrinking occurs mainly after repotting. The video shows an adenium bonsai tree repotted 5 months ago. It had been growing well for first 3 months. After 3 months the caudex of the adenium plant began shrinking. Now the caudex is not soft. It`s shrinking. The branches and the leaves are green. As I myself look after the plants, I know well that the desert rose never goes shortage of water. So I think there is a little rot problem. Then the video proceeds to see what`s happening beyond our eyes. After pulling out the adenium bonsai from soil it is seen that there is no development under the soil. No feeder roots are seen. The plant has given away the media. Some roots have rotten out. There are also some patches of discoloration on the roots. One large root feels soft.
Considering all these, we may conclude that : Somehow any fungal problem occurs in the media and the media becomes incompatible with the plant. So the plant begins exhausting the nutrient and water stored in its caudex to survive. And the caudex shrinks releasing nutrient and water. There is some root rot because the adenium has been sitting long in moist incompatible media.
Now the video shows the remedial steps: As shown in the video, the infection is not severe but it goes deep. If repotted the plant may heal itself in the new media. But I`m not willing to take the risk. Hence the remedial steps are:
1. The infected tissues are cut off.
2. Branches and leaves are cut.
3. The cut area is covered with fungicide.
4. The plant is dried in shade for 7 days.
5. Repotting after 7 days` drying in the new media.
6. Applying rooting hormone.
7. Keeping the media moist until any development is seen.
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To watch more videos from dot basecamp
1. For Adenium Care in Monsoon: https://youtu.be/SIH7oEqR9JA
https://youtu.be/kabXobx4Cts
2. For Pruning: https://youtu.be/YqHGOsUj03o
3.For Radial Roots : https://youtu.be/W6BzShsAKuc
https://youtu.be/hi-e9D5uoI8
4.For more Flowers : https://youtu.be/udxj8vggVcQ
5. For making bonsai : https://youtu.be/gt1faM_QSzE
https://youtu.be/W6BzShsAKuc
https://youtu.be/nQqnD4BFE5o
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