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Date: 26 Aug 2025 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

What hides behind the darkness?

Cat Georgie at TopTropicals

😶 What hides behind the darkness?

"Stars can't shine without darkness." - D.H. Sidebottom

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Date: 26 Aug 2025 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

Its a miracle: Miracle Fruit messes with your tongue, makes lemon sweet!

Synsepalum dulcificum - Miracle Fruit

🍭 It's a miracle: Miracle Fruit messes with your tongue, makes lemon sweet!

🍋🍬Miracle Fruit (Synsepalum dulcificum) Miracle Fruit - is a tidy, productive pot plant with a magical surprise.
🍋🍬 Ever wish lemons tasted like candy? This little berry makes sour foods taste sweet - lemon turns into a lemon candy, vinegar into syrup, and the effect can last for hours. The secret is a natural compound that masks the sour taste buds on your tongue.
🍋🍬 Miracle fruit isn’t just a fun trick - it’s also a perfect plant for your garden. A compact, slow-growing shrub, it actually prefers pots since it likes acidic soil. Indoors or out, it can fruit almost year-round, staying a neat 3-5 ft tall in a container.
🍋🍬 Best part? You can surprise your friends with a slice of lemon before and after trying it - and just wait for their reaction!
🍋🍬 What foods did you try with Miracle fruit? How did it change the taste?

🛒 Plant your own Miracle Fruit

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Date: 26 Aug 2025 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

Papaya lime smoothie: Quick-n-Fun exotic

🍴 Papaya lime smoothie: Quick-n-Fun exotic recipes

🟢Blend ripe papaya with fresh lime juice, a splash of coconut water, and ice.
🟢Super refreshing and naturally creamy, no dairy needed.

🛒 Pick a perfect Papaya variety for your yard

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Date: 25 Aug 2025 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

Patience is bitter

🐈🐈🐈 Patience is bitter

"The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit." - Moliere
"Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet." - Aristotle

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Adenium care

Care for adeniums is simple once you understand what they like. Think of them as half succulent, half tropical shrub. Keep their roots dry but never bone-dry, give them sun, and feed them during the warm months. Do that, and they will reward you with fat trunks and nonstop flowers.

Soil and pot: Use a gritty, fast-draining Adenium Soilless Mix. Shallow wide pots work best — they let the caudex spread and show off its shape like a bonsai.

Watering: Water in the morning. Let the surface dry before watering again. Never let pots sit in saucers of water.

Foliage: Keep leaves dry. Wet leaves invite rot and fungus.

Fertilizer: During active growth, feed with Sunshine Megaflor liquid fertilizer (flower booster); it promotes swollen trunk and sets flower buds.

Light: Give them bright light year-round. Full sun in mild climates; filtered light if your summers are scorching.

Winter rest: Cut water back when days shorten and let the plant rest. Dormancy is normal.

Repotting trick: Each time you repot, lift the plant a bit so the crown roots peek above the soil. This encourages bigger caudex.

Desert roses are made for containers, easy enough for a beginner but rewarding enough for a collector.

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Six desert rose adenium hybrids with black, pink, yellow, orange, and bicolor flowers in
bloom.

Colorful adenium hybrids in bloom at Top Tropicals

Desert roses (Adeniums) are not really roses at all. They are cousins of the plumeria, but gardeners prize them for that swollen base more than for the leaves. Want a little trick? Each time you repot, lift the plant slightly so the crown roots peek above the soil. Over time the base swells into odd shapes. Some look like bottles, others like bonsai elephants. That is half the fun of growing them.

At Top Tropicals we only sell grafted plants. Why? Because seed-grown plants do not keep flower color true, but they are the only ones that form the swollen caudex. With grafting you get the best of both worlds: reliable flower colors from named hybrids and the sculptural trunk from seedling rootstock. You can make hundreds of exotic colors. Tempting, isn’t it? Take advantage of this hot sale offer and and collect them all!

Use the code below to save 15% on any adenium:

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Garden Blog - Top Tropicals

What hides behind the darkness?

Its a miracle: Miracle Fruit messes with your tongue, makes lemon sweet!

Papaya lime smoothie: Quick-n-Fun exotic

Patience is bitter

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Adenium care

🌸 Exotic Adeniums Hot Deal

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