Tropicals & Tender Perennials: growing plumeria in colder countries, 1 by GordonHawk

GordonHawk wrote:
Well.. growing inside and then out for the summers is indeed possible... keeping the root as warm as possible is a cure all and a fast track to flowering.. I like to rot inside in the winter on a heat mat from a waterbed heater .. outside I put the pots on a hot roof... a driveway is also a heat producer for root zone heatting... waht it that there's enugh water ..but do let it get dryish before waterring again... it's the ammount of dryness and heat not water that causes rot... minne get water a few times a day in the summer.. but being on the hot roof it's dry in a few hours... I've had seedlings blom in considerblly under a year..from seed to flower..
You can keep them up and blooming alll year for sure.. mine have gone all of the time for many years and the side benefit is blooms inside during the winter ... I have two of them blooming today.. a white and a Nebels rainbow .. I feed summer and winter .. Gordon