Plumeria
 

I started growing this one from seed 3 yrs ago. Last year, it gave me just one or two blooms but this year it's really happy and has lots of buds still popping up :dance:

Smells heavenly! :cloud9:

Way to grow Suzanne:bowing I love plumeria. Did a trade a while ago and the piece I got is doing great. Just waiting for it to bloom. I don't have the patience to start from seed.

amazing to have it flower after only 3 years.
must be the excellent cultere by the grower.

Beautiful! The one cane I bought that survived has lots of leaves and I can't wait for those beautiful blooms!!! Do you leave it potted or let it dry out and hibernate in the winter?? (Man, I wish I was in Florida!)

This is one of two that we have potted and got a full dose of being ignored over the winter. We put the pots in a dark corner of the orchid room once we got into a steady less-than-50 degrees-at-night pattern and then brought back outside at the first sign of any green.

There are a few in the ground that get covered on the coldest nights (which doesn't happen very often here) but those aren't showing signs of buds yet...neither is the second one in a pot...but I do have patience when it comes to plants :)

I've read conflicting things about what to do with a plumeria in the winter. Sounds like I'm going to ignore mine this winter. :evil: I want some of those beautiful flowers next year!:drool:

Thanks

It's such a nice looking plant. Great growing!!!

Very nice Sue - it must have wonderful fragrance!

Lucky you. Those smell so great and are such a neat looking plant, all rambly and bare until the green leaves poke out in spring. I don't have one, but I did grow one for a friend when she was given it as a gift. I only had it a few months, but was very impressed with how quickly the leaves developed. Great growing!

Is this similar to temple trees flowers. It grows here .they grow up to a large tree and there are big flowers to small flowers,

Wintering plumeria
 

I have talked to several people about how to winter plumeria over the years. There seems to be several ways. I have several plants that I have had for many years, I have tried it several ways. The best way that I have found is to just leave them in the pot, somewhere above about 50 degrees (although mine have gotten colder and not been harmed), and ignore them. Some people say you should water them during the winter. From what I have found, water them only if they start to look a little shriveled. I have also bare rooted them. But it seems like the flowers are more stunted and it takes a while for the leaves to come in. Thanks for "listening" to me ramble.

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Sue, my Sis lives in Lutz (as I may have said before) and grows many colors of these right in the ground in her back yard. My dad had a yellow like yours from Hawaii in his front yard in St. Pete and it had a few problems from infrequent cold weather. But Chris (my sister) has had really nice blossoms of all sorts of colors. These things are awsum, but no way here in Mich.

Ross, you can do them potted there in Michigan!
They go in for a deep winter rest anyway, you should give one a try :evil:

Oh no! Another enabler! :evil: Where's Shannon? :hmm

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yes they are what you refer to as temple trees

If you live somewhere too cold just let them stay outside as long as possible, I grow them in six inch pots and when they drop leaves in winter I just bring them inside the house, I leave them behind the TV or inside a closet, so they arent eyesores, and check them every few weeks for water and growth. they are supre drought tolerant, the cactus wilt before they do.

Young/ small Plumerias often will only flower every second year, but after a few branch divisions they'll flower each year.
The decidous species and cultivars make awesome live mounts for winter/spring flowering epiphytes.

I take mine and put them in the garage when they lose allthe leaves. Don't water them at all over winter. I put them back outside when they show signs of new growth and then water and fertilize back to normal. Not too hard. I have orchids that take way more care then the plumeria.

I recently acquired some plumeria seeds. Has anyone ever started them from seed?

i would love to try growing plumeria, but the rooted plants seem a little expensive, especially the shipping costs. I understand that cuttings can be rooted, but I've never been good at root cuttings of even a regular plants like geraniums so it scares me to think of even trying it.

Never started from seed but I do have 4 big seed pods. I might try here in the next couple weeks.

They are super easy to root. I have 15 plumeria cuttings I've rooted thus far, most of which were purchased this year. They are all producing leaves.

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Maybe I will give them a try...but I can't even get a geranium to root!

Plumeria
 

Hi - someone recently gave me 5-6 sticks and said they were Fragipani - Is that the same as Plumeria? Anyway, I stuck them in some dirt and they all are doing fine. Is yours in the ground or pot? I just have leaves, no flowers yet. Will put pix up soon.:hello

Actually those are fairly big trees yes trees grown here. Just like pine trees. People climb these trees to pluck flowers.
For me its amazing you all try to grow trees in pots.
Thankfull for your efforts. We just fix some orchids on this trees to get blooms. And I am glad to know that they shed leaves in winter.

Frangipani is a 'common name' for Plumeria (was the person who gave you the cuttings an Australian by any chance?).
Cuttings are a really good way to get some of the more spectacular colour variants. There are heaps of specialist plumeria nurseries on the web.
For establishing cuttings I find that regular potting mix can hold too much water with resultant root rot. When I'm striking cuttings of Plumeria I use a 50/50 mix of washed sand with regular potting mix. I've never tried from seed.

and it was a South African who introduced them to the Aussies :rofl:
They are easy to grow in pots. My issue was that in this cold climate I had to indoors them in Winter - and they got too big.......its not a plant for a pot, unless there is a bonsai version !

Just came across this post.
I grow several varieties of Plumeria. There are a few varieties that are dwarf and easily managed in containers such as Dwarf Singapore Pink, Dwarf Deciduous,Divine,Thumbelina. There are also some varieties that do not get too big and are fairly manageable in containers. Many Thai varieties are quite coorful,nicely scented and stay on the small side.Then there is a Stenopetala variety that looks like a vine due to it's growth habit.
Here in Florida there are couple of good nurseries selling rooted plumerias(grafted and nongrafted)- Florida Colors Nursery and Brads Buds and Blooms .
If you call them up they can even advise certain varieties for you.
You can check out plumeria forums for additional info.
These are fabulous plants in my experience and need much less care than Orchids. You do need full sun and warm temps for them to bloom though.
Many have great colors and fragrance so I would recommend trying them. Seedlings take 3 yrs or more to bloom and cuttings bloom generally in a year.

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Where are you located in Utah? I am in south salt lake and this whole state lacks orchid growers. I moved here from Chicago and it is a stark difference. I have now focused on terrarium grown miniatures due to the lack of humidty.

I would love to talk orchids and know what you grow.

I have nine plumeria plants I started from seed. They are about three years old but have not flowered yet. I grow them outside in the summer and inside my orchid room in the cold months. They don't even lose their leaves in the winter since they are under the lights. They do slow their growth though. I live in Washington state but if I lived in Florida maybe they would of bloomed by now. I bought them on eBay and the seeds came with instructions on how to grow them. They are really easy to start. I gave a blooming sized one to my mom for mothers day quite a few years ago and it blooms every summer. I bought that one on eBay too. We grow them in pots. My Mom's plant does lose its leaves in the winter since it isn't under lights. She doesn't water it until it warms up and it starts growing again. I love Plumerias! They remind me of Hawaii! I can't wait until my seedlings bloom. I bought four different varieties. If your interested in buying seeds or cuttings or even rooted plants eBay has lots of listings.

this is my plumeria which I've had for 5 yrs. I bought it at a Walmart in San Diego, CA. I have to bring her inside every winter. She is getting pretty big now, so I'll have to cut some branches and make new plumerias out of this one. The flower is yellow and smells really good.

I have a Plumeria cutting that my sister in law brought back from hawaii for me. I am waiting very patiently for it to get big enough to bloom...poor thing is bare of leaves becuase it didn't like being repotted and started drooping. I took all the leaves off and it is recovering nicely - though I have feeling i will be waiting a long while more to see the flowers...

We had a plumeria a while back, but it died. So a month or so ago I was walking with the baby and I noticed a neighbor had trimmed his and thrown it in front of his house.

I grabbed a couple of branches, put some root hormones on them and stuck them in dirt. They have been growing fresh leaves for a while, and one has it's first flower. (Below)

The other branch hasn't flowered yet, but I was looking at the Plumeria's he's got and one is a dark hot pink. I'm crossing my fingers for one of those!