Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Blooms?? How looooong must I wait???, 0 by Clare_CA

Clare_CA wrote:
Hey, All! I'm still finding new inflo's on some of my plumerias. Reds like to bloom late in the season especially. If you have inflo's that start late, you can bring them inside for the fall and winter when temps start to drop below 50 -- sooner if you'd like. You can either let your plumies go dormant (and hope that the inflo hangs on), or you can give the indoor plumerias plenty of heat and light in the house or the greenhouse, sunroom, etc., and have indoor blooms for the winter. Indoor blooms can sometimes be pale in color, and they can be small, but it really just depends on your supplemental heat and light set up. Many people extend the daylight by a few hours with high-density metal halide lighting and have great success.

Around November or December, I put all plumerias that have inflo's into my portable greenhouse, where they bloom inside for the winter. It gets up over 100F during the day in there, and I open it up to let the heat out in the middle of the day and close it up mid-afternoon. Having a fan in there in a really good idea also to keep insects away and improve air circulation. I don't have to add supplemental heat because it doesn't get much below 40 in there, and I have blooms all winter.