I received this lovely white from a swap couple of years ago. It has been growing horizonally since I received it. What can I do to straighten it? Or do I need to prune?
Help me prune this one...
Very good question. I've one that has a similiar habit one branch points west the other east. And it almost take on a shape of a letter T. I contemplate on pruning the branches. One at a time and re-root them.
Keep this in mind. If you prune all the branches off. the remainder of the tree may take longer to recoop. So a gradual modification is a better choice I do believe. Also, I'd wait until the tree is done with its blooming time.
Can you show the actual tree at a different angle where all the branches are visible?
need a view from the side.
i like it from what i can see.
The pure white blossoms! The leaves all look very healthy. :)
Here's a view from the other side. Yes, it's very happy....
Ah, I've a solution for that one without going through any trouble. Mr. D, what do you think? Just simply replant the tree right side up? I had my 'Dwarf Pink Singapore' and it was leaning over badly. So Instead of uprooting the fragile roots system. I planted the whole plastic pot into a larger ceramic container. Inthegarden. Yours (pot) is much more bigger. Take care not to disturb the root too much, you can gently ease the rootball out of the pot, have a larger container ready. Enlist another extra pair of hands to move/repostion the rootball into the larger container with the tree right side up , water it in and viola. the leaves will gradually straighten out upright. Have fun and good lucks.
This message was edited Jul 26, 2011 9:52 AM
haha! right on lily_love. i was thinking the same thing - no fuss, no muss. =) i have used the same technique.
Alright...thanks Lily_love & tucsonplumeriaz, I'll do that.
Inthegarden, how is thing going for you? Here is one I repotted today because it was leaning.
When you cut it expect the remaining tips to bloom, ive found theres a survival instinct that makes them bloom if you cut off the banches and leave 1 or 2 tips.
This is one of my favorite cold area tips to 'force' blooms.
I have good success with it.
hi malestrom. can you explain this further? i only ask because i do not see this happening. perhaps, it could be due to more ideal growing conditions in my area. so, i have a plumeria with three tips. i prune one tip. are you saying that on of the other two will now bloom in response to the plant losing a tip? how does one know that it wasn't just doing that naturally?
how did the replanting go?
Thats what I was saying yes.
Its been my experience, I dont know it isnt happening anyway but it works almost everytime.