Heres the mayas they look good love that color these are from 1critter4u
new cuttings
Peaches and Cream they coming along slower but they were bigger sticks, love the big sticks there bullet proof
A seedling they all had the same amount of fertilizer this one yellowed out. Have been giving it right along so watch and see?
Pink Velvet shes a oldie but goodie her scents so good and she usally gives good flushes. She was out all year frooze back to root so shes had to come back grow and now flowering these plants are truly amazing!
This seedling thinks its confused it has branches and is gearing up to put out more branches wants to be a bush lol
Bloomed last month decided to give me another bloom I think I think I need to get it out of pot and into ground proably root bound
These look decent at night but during the day they wilt not very good looking have a really nice scent though
last one!
thanks for the pics Dana.Joelle
Joelle how far are you from orilla? I have friends there, thanks!
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Pretty far, about 1500 miles!lol
Yup not a hop skip for sure :)
Pretty Plummie Dana! Your brugs look great too!
Thanks this time of year its like the yellow switch is on I have over ten yellow blooming right now except there always a exception
I have Zone envy!
I lost all but 2 small plummies this winter. I plan on starting some seeds soon though. Brugs and plummies have been my addiction for nearly 10 years and I cannot get help for these addictions!!!
I did 500 seeds twice from thailand and bunches of 100 here 100 there babies, babies everywhere! Trust me I'm there when you repot its hundreds at a time broken back everyone saves pots for you. Now its the brug seed I am just getting started with them neat love how they grow so quick and the dream of what its going to be plumeria they have to flower 3 times before you see what you end up with and it can take 5 yrs before you get a flower and the scents are awesome
Sheesh--you had to show another addiction I have!!! Love the Passi's! Plummies do not come true to parent but brugs don't either. I have never seen an ugly bloom on a Plumeria tho!!!
Wait til you get the voodoo Lilys they are cool too the way I figure too many plants never enough time:) The best part I have going for me is I have the room You live in florida might as well grow all this cool stuff. Enjoy it while your young enough to take care of all this lol loopy seedling saw this on the aussie site and just like theres it straightened its self out during the night
These during the day are not that good looking, but dusk they open up, they look decent then have a great scent
Glad to see your loopy is behaving itself...mine is about 3ins tall now....he will be slowing down for our Winter.
What will you do with all your Plumeria seedlings?
Dana,
Brugs belonging to the species suaveolens have flowers that tend to wilt during the day especially those with large frilly skirts. When the plant begins losing more moisture through the flowers than can be replaced, the flow to the flowers is reduced resulting in the wilting you see.
They can be pretty but when they wilt I'm ready to yank lol Seachanger i let them grow and wait for that flower! Its a slow process don't get to many seeds from them But i am threw with seeds on the plumies takes to long brugs flower hopefully with in the first year I"m there Heres a seedling that opened for the first yesterday
Your Plumeria are gorgeous. I can't even count on how many I've tried unsucessfully! :-(
Thats too bad here they are bullet proof heat, sun during the heat you can give them all the water they want your case mist proably no water you would have to be real picky what you used I use peat and 50% pearlite they have to drain right now in your case roots rot easy when temps not up. 10 months out of the year they do good 2 months you better have a plan i left big ones in the ground and they were killed back to 6 inches from the ground stalks that were 5-6 inch thick heart breaking :(
That seedling is beautiful, Dana.....I have had so many but they all get collar rot...I know that it's my fault.
At least I don't have probs with Brugs and my first grown from seed are about 2ft tall.
So roll on Spring.
lovely flowers ,, yes the brugs are much quicker to satisfy... with biger flowers.. they won me away from the plumerias.. although I still have 8 or so... they are religated to a grove in the corner..
you likely know you can decrease the time awaiting their flowers by growing them on a hot surface.. like a roof or driveway.. in the ground you only get as much heat as is there,,, they love having their roots hot.. case in point.. on a Nicarigan volcano.. with an open lava pit.. always spewing sulphers.. the trees stop growing up the sides.. the last bit of big trees are a grove of plumeria,, roots in soil a bit above the lava.. they love it.. like no other plant can stand it.... My best time from seed to flower was about 10 months.. a cooperative brug can get you flowers in 1/2 that time..
Dana, (HI Gordon long time since I have seen you around) Dana, and Gordon, Why are my "sticks as you call them" mushing up when I cut them off? I have them down almost to the new growth now. It was like they needed a sealer and I didn't have anything so I put some Crisco (shortening, lol) on them. So far. . . . .
Jeanette
Well....HI Jeanette...
OH I've been about some... got a few buds so you'll see more posts and pictures..
I'm a bit confused.. they are mushing up on the top or bottom end... sounds like you're talking about the top die back.. that will sometimes happen... just waht stage after taking the cutting are you refering to... I don't think a seler is called for with brugs.. but if it seems to help..
yeah I wasn't getting it either
No, these aren't cuttings gordon, they are plants that have several branches thick like Dana is calling sticks. Just like the one she pictured only on the top end above where the new growth is coming out the side, the top of the "stick" is mushing up. On all of them. 3 or 4 on each plant. A couple were where they froze. Got hit by frost. So, the mushed and I cut that part off. It was good and solid where I cut it, but then it started mushing from there down.
In looking at Dana's picture again, I see she is talking about cuttings. That is what she is calling a stick. These are just as big as the one she pictures, but plants.
Jeanette
I bought some cuttings from a man just after Christmas he lived in SC His green house frooze he sent me cuttings that when I opened the box what a stink! there toast once there that cold. If you had roots they can come back. But if there cuttings there gone sorry took a little to figure it out But if they have roots they should come back from the roots
Only the top new growth, of course above the Y froze. It was when I cut that off that it started to mush up. I have cut a total of probably 6 or 8 inches off, a couple inches at a time. They, my plants, about 3 feet tall were in pots on my deck.
Jnette, my good friend, ZZ (Joyce) taught me that when a brug mushes up... it knows what it's doing and it's doing it for a reason. If you cut it.. it will become confused and continue to mush. Leave it and let it mush to where it decides is the best place to stop doing so. ;-)
Teresa in BC, really??? Now I find that amazing. OK. You have just taught me something. A very important lesson. Thank you. I am going to do just that. I sure do not want to confuse my brugs.
Thanks Gordon,
I didn't know about the heat factor.
I have a small sun trap in my garden so I might keep
some of my strongest babies there over winter.
The others are on my verandah.
We don't get very cold here.
Dianne
Jnette, it really holds true.
Teresa, I was teasing you. I do believe you and I am going to quit cutting on them. I will let you know when they quit mushing. (when they reach the soil) LOL
If i had one here doing that it would be ripped out and destroying it lol Would figure it had something wrong with it and would get rid of it
LOL, Dana
There is definitely something wrong with it, but the growth is getting so nice, even the leaves that were on it are getting real big. Since I re-potted it. I took it out, cut the roots back and put it in a holy pot and then in a 20 gallon muck bucket. It is really looking good except for the mush. The other one is doing the same thing. It just isn't as nice a plant. I did not re-pot it. Yet.