Plumaria (frangipani)

I've recently been sent a rooted cutting by a friend in USA, it has 6 leaves now and is doing well, so far. She also sent me some seeds which I lovingly planted today.

Is anyone else growing plumaria?

 

Yeah, though not very sucsessfully at the moment, Got one plant over 6 ft high from seed but no flowers as yet. The rooted cutting is, I think, the best option.
In the USA they have all different types of named varieties to choose from, we dont seem to have them over here.

 

Pete 6ft ?? you should have nipped top I let mine not go any higher then max 19- 20 " then make them branch out some of mine have 3 and 4 ,even 5 stems now, which means get flowers on every tip and not so tall. I don't feel I want to go on a stepladder to see the flowers lol as they are set in the branch tops. Why don't you make 3 or 4 of them now, they root easily in Summer...and you will get them in flowers next year..I got about 24 different colours in leaf and strong plants and many more unknow, as they are seed growwn.

Ladybird

 

Weren't yours cuttings though?
From the same seed packet I got one 6ft, one 18ins and one 12ins and no flowers, but there's always next year.
I'll have to find a specialist nursery that sells them. Its a bit like growing apples from seed, you never know what your gonna get.

 

I know who the mother was of my seeds, pink with a yellow centre, I forget the name now, but it's a case of "who's your daddy?".

 

Exactly :D

 

Have you looked at this place Pete. Plumeriasuk

 

Thanks Rich, I've asked for their catalogue, a bit late perhaps this year but who knows.

 

I started with this firm, paid over �£ 20 for a little seedling...then started to buy seeds elswhere and some I have sown in late September has now overtaken this first one I bought...and have lots now and also some in flower now...yupppeee

Laybird

[ 09. August 2005, 10:16 PM: Message edited by: Ladybird ]

 

Will have lots of cuttings,rooted and unrooted in a little while...at a fraction of cost to compared with others...it's only a hobby, but take it very serious,as all plants.

Ladybird

 

I don't do it for profit, just to get them off the ground in UK.... and have quite a few interested people who bought seeds from me and rooted cuttings....satisfied customers..

Ladybird

 

Put me on your list Ladybird.

 

Pete why dont you cut the tall Plumeria in 4 pieces now, let them dry a day or 2 and root them, now is the best time... make sure , all pieces are going same direction, up... mark arrows before you cut it...so you not plant 1 upside down, very difficilt to tell,I cut some tops off in Feb, when I got them and some are branching out now in 2 and 3 s....so more flowers later or more cuttings...
Good luck !

Ladybird

 

Well I would but I have a theory, rightly or wrongly I dont know, that a seedling of any plant has to reach a particular age before it begins to flower. With some plants it sooner and some its later, but cutting it back, I think delays flowering. I could well be wrong, I dont know, but I dont want to delay flowering then find its not a particually good flowerer eg. no scent which I believe can happen.

 

Pete all depends on variety.. mine have all leaved up well from march, then put some outside, left some in greenhouse....the outside I fed with Llama manure and they grew 4" of top stem in 4 days... those I will get flowers next year... but will cut the taller ones back, prefer them shorter, here in England we have to bring them in...who wants a 6ft tree overwinter in lounge or conservatory ? I got about 80 of them .. so can play about and learn more.
All my plumerias are named and scented, not heard of one not scented.
I rooted some in 3 weeks...now is the time,to do it.

Ladybird