Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Feeding Plumeria's How often is to often, 0 by Clare_CA

Clare_CA wrote:
Hi Don, my trees are not very big as I've only been growing plumerias for 3 years and got them as small cuttings or grafts. Growing them in containers keeps them small as well as they would grow much better and bigger if they were in the ground. I am a renter, and there is no room in the landscape here so I keep them in containers. My biggest ones are fairly rootbound in 15-gallon containers, and I have 25-gallon containers that I may re-pot them to some time this summer. I took a picture of them for you to see. Please excuse the mess in the back. Those are five-gallon containers being stored in the way back behind them. Most of my two-and-a-half-year-old seedlings are in five-gallon black nursery type containers, but a few are in ten-gallon containers. Seedlings have a large tap root, and I have heard that they will flower sooner if planted in the ground. Seedlings tend to need larger container space as their root systems are stronger. Three of my seedlings bloomed at between 19-22 months if I remember correctly. The other 37 of the same age have not bloomed yet, but three years is typical from seed so I may have to wait a little longer. If your two- and three-year-old seedlings are in five-gallon containers, then I would re-pot to ten-gallon containers or plunge them in the ground if you can. Plunging is the way to go if you need to pull them up in the fall.