I say hardy because all of my plumies were so mistreated this past year. When I moved I dragged them from the comfort of the small greenhouse and left them on the ground at my new place for two months before potting them up. They were subjected to freeze, frost and just all around bad treatment.. and yet.. they still honor me by doing this...
Oh Trish, how lovely!!! One of mine has buds on it and should be blooming in the near future. Does it smell nice?
MzM, I hope mine will be as forgiving! I only have 1 that I just bought at a local nursery. I worry about the extreme heat here because it is a container plant. My neighbor has a regular forest of them, but they are all large trees in the ground. He gave me some cuttings which I hope to grow. I will take mine back to the nursery in October to be re-potted. I can't do it myself because of arthritis in my hands and I'm afraid I will hurt it. Can you tell I just discovered these plants and fell in love? LOL
Pati
PS: Mine is a "Singapore White"
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Lisa, it smells like fresh peaches!! Awesome!... This was my first plumie and it always produces the flower spike/buds prior to setting leaves when I take it out of hibernation.
Pati.. to live in your zone..!!! I would have a forest of them like your neighbor.
I have one that is still small. It is from a seed pod that I harvested off of my red plumie.. it was crossed with this one. Can't wait to see what it looks like.
How interesting. Someone else told me his also set flower spikes before leaves. Mine leafs out first and then grows the flower spike. Wonder why.
MzM, your new gardens are going to be so beautiful!
Trish...very nice pic!! I love the yellow flowered ones best.Aztec gold is my favorite one. :-)
Trish! Congratulations on your bloom. If it smells like fresh peaches, it is probably Aztec Gold.
Pati, you won't hurt it by transplanting it! It just needs super well-draining soil. I have most of mine in five-gallon black nursery containers, and they should live happily in them for many years. They love the heat in our zone, but they do need to be watered more often because of it.
thanks all... this yellow one is just the best bloomer as evident by this picture.. I have another yellow that has smaller sized blooms and smells like soft-scrub cleanser.. honest...
and a hot pink one of mine. the main branch was rotting so I cut it off up to where the stalk was solid and stuck it in a pot.. couple weeks later and it is already showing off. Best add that I let it cure for a couple of days before sticking it in a pot...
This is also the pod parent of the cross with the yellow one from above. The seedling of this cross is now about 6" tall.. can't wait to see what the blooms will look like.
Very soon on mine. Any day now!
Tell me folks....is there any secret to getting these things to bloom? I recieved a cutting of one from a friend off one that she brought back from Hawaii several years ago. Hers has never bloomed and neither has mine. Are there such things as male and female plants in plumerias? We both have them in sun and give them water....maybe we don't give them enough stress ....Thanks
I use super bloom. What about everyone else?
Beautiful blooms, Trish. Congratulations!
Dayflower, no, stress is not the answer! Fertilizer is the answer:-) Plumerias need plant food on a regular basis during the growing and blooming season until about September. I use Miracle Grow or whatever is on hand.
Gorgeous blooms MzMunchkin...I'm hoping my area gets warmer temps soon. My poor Plumie is truly wondering about it's new home...figures other years we've been in the low 80's by May and June, and the year I get a Plumie we've had nothing but rain and temps are in the 50's and 60's (F).
Oooooooo la la, Munchie! Didn't know you had moved...guess I'm just slow at catching up.
"eyes"
I just have a Celadine blooming and a rather unimpressive white. The plain white has practically no scent, but the Celadine is fragrant.
Here is the Celadine:
This is an unnamed white that I got from Aloha Palms:
I wish mine would hurry up!!!! What color do you think it is going to be?
rylaff, I guess white. :-)
thank you all.. I'm so tickled with my plumies. I love giving the flowers that have dropped, but are still good, to neighbors or friends.. couple flowers will scent up the entire room and last several days.
Eyes.. yep.. single and moved clear across the state.. he didn't like being married to a grubby gardener ... his loss :)
Thanks for the answer.....I'm going out tomorrow and give it something to eat....& gonna tell my friend to go feed hers. Maybe we can get something to happen...they're gorowing and makeing a beautiful bush !
What a BOZO, Trish................he didn't have a clue!!!! Best to you my neonatal sistah!!
"eyes"
I am thinking the flowers will open tomorrow. What do you think?
Yes, I think so too:-)
Clare, does your Celadine smell like soft scrub cleanser?
Lisa.. I'm sure it will open today.. you will have to tell us what it smells like and of course a picture of the open bloom
VEry sweet smell. Nice!!!!
MzMunchken, hmmm, well, I don't use soft scrub cleanser so I'm not sure, but I don't think so. It pretty much has the typical Plumeria smell. My other white one bloomed, and it only has a faint smell.
Nice plumie, Lisa. My "Intense Rainbow" is starting to bloom today also. I think the scent is somewhat fruity.
Lisa... nice white.. besides nice.. what does the fragrance remind you of?
*groan* That is gorgeous Clare. When a branch breaks off this one I'm first in line!! *LOL*
The 'softscrub' plumie smells like a mixture of clorax and lemons. Not one of my favorite smells.. reminds me of housework.
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LOL, MzMunchenken. It's just a single stick right now, but I imagine it will branch after the bloom. When mine fill out a little more, I'll definitely be interested in trading cuttings for named varieities that I don't have!
Oh, no, it doesn't smell at all like clorax and lemons. I think some Plumerias do have a lemony smell; some smell like roses; some smell like peaches; some smell like gardenias; and some have a typical plumeria smell. Celadine has a strong, typical plumeria fragrance.
I thought my Plumeria was Celadine, but maybe not as the white/yellow transition in the flower shading is more diffuse than Clare's. I love it anyway and it does have a distinctive plummie scent, with perhaps a hint of lemon too. Chemically the compounds that give Plumerias their fragrance need to be altered only slightly to give a wide range of smells, so it isn't surprising that there are so many "flavours" to Plumerias.
This is a rainbow Plumeria which smells like bubble-gum to me.
The flowers do fade rapidly in full sun though.
This one kind of has a light lemon smell.
Very pretty, Duliticola. I would agree with you that yours is not Celadine, but rather an unknown or unnamed yellow. Here is a good site that describes many named varieties of Plumeria: http://www.io.com/~jrm/pd191.htm This is a good one too for identification: http://www.plumeria101.com/master_gallery/celadine.html
That is a very pretty Rainbow. My P. "Intense Rainbow" smells kind of fruity to me, perhaps a little like peaches. I also have a white exactly like yours with a very light fragrance also.
This is P. "Intense Rainbow":
This is the plain unnamed white with the very light fragrance:
Mine is about to bloom too! I'm so excited. How much longer you think??
This is a cutting I bought in Hawaii in March, and it never grew leaves- just went straight to blooming.
And here are my seedlings. Arent they cute!
Awesome, Art. I'd say maybe a week to two weeks?
Reeeeeally!! Yay. thank you.
By the way, they're usually outside but my camera's aperture is broken and can't take pics outside. haha fyi...:)
