It blooms!..waiting 365 days...!.lol.

Yay! Stan, you've been very patient. Late summer and fall should be the best time for it to bloom there.

My plant just starting flowering, also. However, it's for the second time this year.

I saw an old post on garden web of one in Arizona. You can never get that look away from the blast furnace heat these plants enjoy.
This one is at least 8 years old. At least. From a couple of leaves on a tiny swollen stem. If you really know how long it would take away from a greenhouse to grow one to any size,I wouldn't have bought it.
Funny how that works.
Maybe next year I can set up a very small portable type greenhouse..just to see plants like this really grow over a summer.

Correction,its 9 years old. I got it at the Berkeley Botanical Garden.
Nine years already,oh my.

Wow! That's old! LOL!

My plant grew fast. It didn't grow too much in height it grew very fast in girth, the caudex. I think I purchased my plant three years ago.

A couple of time,I think root rot got it. That and some cool summers,some learning curve about soils. No matter how you slice it..74-80f all summer long just not quite the best for it.

80 degrees is good if you're getting lows in the upper 60's and low 70's. It's been really hot here where I live, many days with highs in the upper 80's to mid-90's. Adenium loves this heat! They really like water only when it's hot. Winter dry, dry, dry! lol! I killed my two other really nice varieties by giving them too much water in winter...even when it was hot!

Here you can see my other varieties:

http://www.growsonyou.com/genus/browse_photos/162

Somebody down your way posted a vid about his soucal garden on the uTube. He had a couple dozen Adeniums among a manicured yard..large to me. They were all in pots on his wrap around tiled patio. A grade A garden.
It wasn't even about the Adeniums. If I run into it again,I will link it. It was owned by a Indian surname man.
I remember asking on C&S forums if any in soucal was trying to grow them outdoors..the experts never said they were or tried. A few in Arizona did..in pots. But,I swear A.arabica and another from South Africa would grow in ground I bet.

There's actually some growing in the ground in my neighborhood. They're really close to the houses. I have to get some photos. I think my across-the-street neighbor has one in their front yard court yard. It's quite an easy plant to grow here. Pretty much put in the ground and forget about it.

It was actually being sold as a xeroscape plant at Home Depot. I purchased my white Adenium during the last drought for $5.00. HD had several drought tolerant plant for that price.

I believe all the species of Adenium are native to East Africa and the Arabian Peninsula (tropical desert areas). They're all very tropical and will not tolerate cold wet soil when mature. I think they're more tolerant of a little wetter soil when they're young. When I first purchased my large Adenium obesum in 2004, the winter of 2004/2005 was very wet. I completely forgot about my Adenium it was young and in a plastic pot...and unbelievably survived those very wet condition that winter outside. It has never been a houseplant.