Adenium caudex thrives while grafted leaves are wrinkled

[tjean]

My Adenium pictured below appears healthy and flowers consistently every year, but the leaves on the grafted scion are always small and wrinkled. This year, the caudex produced a few shoots, bottom right on the picture, that are thriving. I pruned them once but decided to let them grow to see how they develop.

My questions are:

1. How can I encourage healthier leaves on the scion?
2. Should I remove the new shoots from the caudex?
3. Additionally, the caudex hasn’t grown much in the three years I’ve had it. What can I do to promote its growth?

Thanks a lot for any help

 

[NaoTK]

If you want the scion to be dominant you should remove the growth on the lower caudex or else the scion may weaken, or it may just be slower growing natively.
If you want the caudex to get thicker then let the upper scion grow without pruning it. It will get really tall and that's ok. A bigger pot may help.

 

[lehigh4me]

I have several Desert Roses and some of them have the same sort of leaves. I believe it just the type of Desert Rose. As long as the leaves look healthy and green I think you are fine.