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“Fragrance” is one of Adenium styles just released 2 years ago. This was our best success because it was unbelievable that Adenium can give fragrant smell even not strong like Plumeria. Now I’m gonna show you the steps of making “Orange Rosy Adenium with Fragrance”. We have spent 4 years of making this, you can see the developing diagram to get better understanding. The First Year: Making orange spread more with all over petals we used “The Peach” as mother and crossed her with “Golden Siam” as father. New
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The World's First Release Aromatic Adenium with cream flower.
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variety came up with soften orange pretty stable color so I gave her a name as “Old Rose”. The Second Year: Creating fragrance Do Adeniums have fragrant smell? The answer is yes. Luckily, we have accidentally found this one could give cool fragrance in year of 2008. I gave her a name as “Red Perfume” and she was the first ladder to produce “Aromatic Adenium”. We used “Old Rose” as mother and crossed with “Red Perfume” and it came up with new 2
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distinctive styles: “Must Talk Here” and “Sahara Smile”. “Must Talk Here” has orange cream color and red stripe (like mother) but no fragrance. “Sahara Smile” has yellow cream, cool fragrance but no stripe. We were pretty sure that orange would show up in next generation, you can notice this orange show in “Must Talk Here”. This is the funniest and most exciting thing of Adenium’s breeding. The Third Year: Creating Orange Rosy-
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Adenium we could not use Rosy Adenium : “Dox Xon” to cross with “Sahara Smile” because her petal had not enough orange yet. We need to create new variety of Orange Rosy Adenium before crossing to “Sahara Smile”. This time we used “Old Rose” as mother and crossed with “Rosy Adenium : “Dox Xon” and came up with Orange Rosy Adenium, I was so happy on that time. Her name was Rosy Adenium: “Siam Orange Rose”.
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The Fourth Year: Amazing happened on Orange Rosy Adenium with Fragrance now it's exciting time! We used "Sahara Smile" as mother and crossed her with Rosy Adenium: "Siam Orange Rose". Believe it or not, this time it's success without waiting for next crossing's generation. The new baby came up with Creamy Orange Rosy Adenium, decorating with red-orange stripe and also cool fragrance as my wish. I gave her a name as "Buddha Bless" coz she was like god's gift from heaven. Now we are developing with new color, brown or like mangosteen peel.
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Another new adenium color with brown, she iis being developed to become Rosy Adenium.
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I will share you the idea of making this brown color later. The Flower Stability's Testing is alsom important. Sometimes flowers with first blooming or show on parents might not be the same with second or next blooming. I always make grafting this parent scions with other rootstocks. It will be great if you grow these rootstocks with natural organic media and fertilizer because colors would be look
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the same as parent's one. Chemical media or fertilizer will impact to flower color and characters after blooming. I think this could be good example of Adenium developing and worth with patience for 4 years. I doubt that this must be very fun for you especially with breeders. Don’t forget the most important thing; “Single Petal” quality is a key to success of producing both nice single petal itself and multi-overlapping petal (Rosy Adenium. “Why do you have to be like others”? Have a great day.
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