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Clare_CA wrote:
Kaleem, you will want to plant your plumeria in a container only slightly bigger than the rootball. There should be two or three inches of soil for the roots to expand into. If the pot is too big, then the soil will stay too wet, and this can lead to root rot. The best time to repot is when the plumeria is rootbound and when the soil dries out quickly. The plumeria should go from a one-gallon container to a three-gallon container to a five-gallon container to a ten-gallon container to a fifteen-gallon container to a 20- or 25-gallon container. Remember that these do get to be trees, but they do grow slowly.

Here is a tree in Australia: