Can someone tell me the purpose of grafting plumeria plants? Why do you need to graft in the first place?
Just inquisitive, but can someone clue me in on this....
Thanks....
Barry
Grafting plumeria?
Barry, plumeria when produce offsprings via seeds, their unique characteristics change. Thus an offspring will produce flowers different than its parent. One of the reasons it's grafted; So people graft plumeria to "make" new identical plant to the original one. Other reasons include, to raise a young plant from seeds to flowering time could take any where from 3 to 5 years depends on the ideal condition we can replicate for their optimal growth. Versus grafting the specimen, it depends on how vigorous the root-stock, you speed up the process of having your plant blooms much sooner (than seedlings). There are others reason why we graft certain plants, which is many to mention here.
Thank you so much Lily_love.... Now I understand.... I've got one more question too. You know the Plumeria species Princess Victoria, well why is this plant more unliked than the other varieties when people can purchase seeds for this plant?
It's a misnomer when we call a named specimen a "species". A species is one that has its unique characteristic, and capable to produce offsprings like itself via seeds. A named cultivar such and such name signifies it's a hybrid, and hybrid will not yield offspring true to its parentage. Sort a like, why one doesn't look exactly like one's parent, but has some characteristic resemblance of one's parent (or boths--parents).