Suan Luang, The Biggest Adenium Contest in Thailand 2007

Hi Adenium Lovers;

Today I would like to present the "Suan Luang" 2007 Adenium Contest (The Biggest Adenium Contest in Thailand dedicated to our Majesty King Phumibol). Suan Luang Rama IX Park , a new and sizable metropolitan public park, was born out of the aspirations and fervent desire
of a group of His Majesty the King'loyal subjects to create and dedicate a park as a token of homage and honour to His Majesty on the occasion of His Sixtieth Birthday Anniversary in the year B.C. 2530 (A.D.1987), with the fullest co-operation of the Bangkok Metropolitan Authority. There are 3 main contest classes categorized by hybrids (Obesum, Arabicum and Thai Socotranum) and plant height (30cms, 50 cms and over 50 cms or Giant


The Grand Champion and the 1st and winning
award at Suan Luang contest with our RCN Mother plant.

Size). There is only one biggest award
"The Best Show award" means the Grand Champion plant selected and judged from each of 1st ranking from each contest class.
There are over 100 Adenium plants to join this contest.

We won the Grand Champion (The Best Show) with our Arabicum : Ra Chi Nee Pan Dok (RCN) or "Queen of Thousand Flowers" aged 35 years and also won the 1st winning award of RCN contest class.


The 1st Winning Award of Thai Socotranum with
30 height contest class, we use Golden Crown to join this contest

Here, only RCN is seperated from other
Adenium Arabicum Contest Class. The most exciting contest class is Adenium Arabicum contest with 25 cm height because many adenium players can bring them easily and not long maintaining. We also got the 1st and 2nd winning award with Thai Socotranum 30 cm height contest class. We took the best of Thai Socotranum : Golden Crown to join this contest.

Our Golden Crown has been maintained since baby seedling harvested from NSD Nursery (The owner of Thai Socotranum : Golden Crown and great partner) and for 3 years.

They also have the over 50 cm height-Thai Socotranum contest class. We took our Petch Ban Na (PBN) mother plant to join and won the 3rd winning award. She is 15 years old. We have trained her for 5 years especially with her roots like "Anacondra".


The 2nd Winning Award of Thai Socotranum
with 30 cm hieght Contest class

For the Arabicum with over 50 cm height class, we won the 2nd and 3rd winning award. We took the Arabicum: Petch Na Wang (PNW) and Petch Muang Kong (PMK) motherplants to join this contest. Both of them are over 15 years.


For the Arabicum with over 50 cm height class, we won the 2nd and 3rd winning award. We took the Arabicum: Petch Na Wang (PNW) and Petch Muang Kong (PMK) motherplants to join this contest. Both of them are over 15 years.

This is the most honour reward to usDon't worry if you did not come to this contest because I made the VDO for you to watch, please enjoy and hope you to visit 2008 Suan Luang Contest. Take care... Adenium Lovers

Another Factor to grow with nice seedlings

Hi Arabicum Lovers;

Growing up seedlings with nice form is not difficult anymore. I told you that the controlled factors are Media, Minerals, Fertilizer, watering and uncontrolled ones are climate, moisture, diseases.

There is another important thing : Mother plant sources. We don't wanna waste time without knowing what seed resource is come from. Mostly I can get about 70% seedlings look stable with mother plant hybrid.


Siam Black Pearl Mother Plant, the newest generation of
Black Arabicum (More)


Our Winning Arabicums and Thai Socotranums Collection at backyard

Actually I also like the weird or strange seedlings look different from mother plant. Few can be new hybrid as well. Another thing to think about is the age of mother plant.
From my experiences, I have found that seedlings come from mother plant's age over 7-10 years can represent more beautiful form and stronger seedlings from young mother.

I like to grow seedling with natural thing, not like to boost up with chemical fertilizer. Yes, baby seedlings can grow bigger but they would be lost form, longer branch and hard to maintain the form especially in the rainy season.


Some of our selected form prepared and maintained for incoming
contest form

Thai Socotranum : Golden Crown

Hi Thai Socotranum lovers;

Today I would like to show many forms of Thai Socotranum: Golden Crown. Golden crown or GC is one of the most popular and best form in Thai Soco group. The special characters is middle main stem around with parallel side branches. This look like King Crown.

We have developed new style with shorter neck caudex and wider root base. We called this as "Dwarf GC". Please click the right photo to watch them.

Here on the left photo is our Golden Crown with 1.5-2" caudex, aged 7 months. Normally, Thai Soco seedlings are pretty hard to define with hybrid because the form will show up distinctively when they are about 6 months up.

GC form always change in a better shape every 2-3 months. Sometimes, bad form of young seedlings can perform better form than nice seedling form. This is very challenge to grow them.

Arabicum : RCN Air Layering

Air-Layering propagation is most likely to be useful for perennial herbaceous plants and shrubs. Growing a plant from a cutting produces a clone of the parent plant or mother plant. For revegetation, plants already growing successfully in an area can be replicated.

These are the reasons for loving RCN Air-Layering.
* As you know RCN is the most popular in Arabicum in term of productive flowers
,especially hybrids, this method can reproduce true to parents unlike sowing
from seeds.
* Plants mature in a shorter time
* New plants are the same as the parent plant


With this method, roots can be produced on stems above the soil. Layering is basically a method of getting a branch or stem to produce roots while still being attached to the parent plant. When the roots are established, the branch is cut and the new plant is potted or planted into the ground where it starts growing as a new plant. This is a method of propagation that is asexual, or vegetative rather than sexual, as is the case when propagating from seed. Two main benefits of asexual or vegetative propagation are: New plants are capable of reaching maturity much faster than when propagated from seed. When layering though, it may take a long time for roots to start growing in some species. Some plants such as hybrids will not reproduce true to parent stock when propagated from seed, in fact, some of these kinds of plants will not even produce viable seed. Asexual propagation in such cases is the only way to get new plant starts. After the new roots are well formed, cut just below the area to sever from the parent plant. This is a great way to obtain bonsai specimens. Plant in pot or in the ground. Layering is an easy way to create "perfect rootage" on a tree with a one-sided or unattractive root system.



So...if you are real fan of Arabicum: RCN and love to have TRUE blood or hybrid from mother plant so you should not miss it coz all of our RCN Air-Layering are made from my first original Mother Plant. That means you can get 100% TRUE hybrid RCN.

Ah!!! Dwarfs

Hi Arabicum lovers;

Today I would like to show you some of my Dwarf varieties. I pretty believe that the best factor very important to help seedlings become with the nice form is HYBRID from Mother plant you sow.

There are 2 kinds of seedlings:
1. Seedling followed as Mother Plant Form As we know. some seedlings can be mutant from sowing. If you would like to get this kind of seedling, you should know the mother plant form and source.

Form means "what you want your seedling will be look like". Source means "how much true hybrid you get". This can help you save sowing time and better than sowing seeds without knowing hybrid you get.

2. Mixed Seedling HybridThis kind of seedling can make by hand crossed pollination. You can imagine what new seedling form would be like. The best thing is to know what mother plants you wanna cross.

Two Crossed Hybrids should come from each nice motherplants. Not only crossing with Arabicum x Arabicum, but now we can cross Arabicum x Thai Socotranum.

For this time, I would like to talk about Arabicum x Arabicum first. Mostly I would like to use Arabicum:RCN (The best Arabicum as most productive form) as male and use Arabicum:PNW as female because RCN stamen is very strong and faster move into pistil than

other Arabicum stamen. RCN herself is hard to perform Dwarf or chubby form but RCN is good for productive flowers and especially with branch internodes. Most popular form of PNW are Multi-Branch and Muscular Branches but few flowers.
Below photos are what we crossed 1. RCN X PNW (Multi-Branch) - we have new F1 charactered like Bamboo or Medusa style with many internodes




around branches and shiny leaves with red border. 2. RCN X PNW (Muscular) - We have new F1 charactered like Rhinozaur, shiny and thicker leaves. 3. RCN X Black Giant - This is our sucess because F1 is pretty stable now. We named this as "Siam Majestic" or Black RCN. OK, I think this is enough for sharing idea. Have a great day,, my adenium friends in this planet.

Getting know better with Arabicum hybrid, Plant Form and Structure

Hi Arabicum lovers;

Today I would like to show you more about hybrid identification including plant form and structure. You can read the hybrid basis from this website (under top menu above). This could help you to make decision to get the nice plant and true hybrid.

I have posted some VDO clips for you to watch some of my nice Dwarf styles and also rate with plant character items (Please see below).

The most important thing to make the characters of seedlings :


Muscular, Multi-branches, Pagoda, etc. is mother plant selection. It could waste time if you sow seeds without knowing what seed sources come from what mother plant is.

For instances, I would like to make Dwarf seedling form with multi-branches, big root base, more branch- internodes and shiny leaves. Then I will choose the mother plant look like photo no.1 above.

If I would like to make Dwarf with seedling form with Multi-Branches, Shiny & long sharp leaves, and
chubby caudex, I will select plant no. 2 to be mother plant. Last sample, if I also would like to make Dwarf form with Muscular Style, Soft caudex color, Clear bone leaves, and flat caudex, I will use the plant no. 3.

The next step is how to maintain baby seedlings to become Dwarf. Please remember making contest form begins from better Dwarf maintaining. Next please enjoy the VDO clip by clicking images below.

Cheers,
Choochart S

How to notice Siam Majestic (Black RCN) and Black Giant

Hi Adenium Friends;

Today I would like to explain how to differentiate between Arabicum: "Black Giant" and Arabicum: "Siam Majestic" (SM or Black RCN). As I told you last time, we know that Black Giant was originated from Yak Lop Bu Ri or we can call "Black Lop Bu Ri". The owner of this Mother Plant is Liutenant Piya. He is my really closed friend. I will show you his photo soon. The Siam Majestic is mixed hybrid between RCN and BG.


Mr. Piya and his Yak Lop Bu Ri and also he was the
owner of Black Giant Mother Plant - The grand
champion 1998 Contest at Lop Bu Ri Province.
He is my best friend.


The easy thing to notice the difference is the internodes around branches. BG consists of many internodes and clearer than SM. BG caudex color is like dark brown. SM skin color is pretty red brown.



SM leave is shiny, some can have red middle line bone. It's also thicker than normal RCN. Some might have a little bit hairy coz of more BG mixing up.