Hi, Love this forum.
I started 6 plants from seed around last Halloween. They were chugging along pretty well in the house under lights. Along side them I also have quite a few brugs. Then disaster, in the form of spider mites pretty much wiped out ever leaf on the plumies and the brugs. Plain old sticks sticking up every where. I've gotten the mites taken care of and everyone is getting more leaves, the plumies included. What I'm wondering about them is if I should repot them. Do they like to be pot bound or not? I wouldn't do it till they got more than a couple leaves back but all the same the've been in those 4" pots for some time. They aren't a mass of roots yet but I don't want to set them back anymore than the mites already have if I should repot them.
Any suggestions would be great.
Robinz
pot bound?
you might want to as they do grow bigger in the summer and will need more room. my motto is if i turn pot over and see or feel roots through drainhole it is time to repot.
spidermites are always a problem inside and in greenhouses. my plumies are still dormant from winter cold but late sept early oct when put inside always get them.
if you repot give them water and should be okay. i had one fall off a shelf last year and repotted it and it bloomed. so they are pretty tuff.
here is a few good plumie links.
http://www.io.com/~jrm/plumeria.html
http://www.plumeria101.com/index.html
http://www.alohatropicals.com/plumeria.html
Thank you imzadi. They aren't so bad that it's immidiate (no roots out the bottom) and it is still early spring here so I think I'll wait till either I see roots or it gets nice and warm and they are happy outside. At least if I wait that long they should be on there way to being ready to come back in the house in the fall. Thank you also for the links. I will investigate!
Robinz
Robinz, I agree that your seedlings should probably get one-gallon containers this spring. They don't mind being potbound, but they will grow taller if given more room to grow in. Plumerias will drop their leaves when brought inside with or without spider mites so that is nothing to be concerned about. A good spray with horticultural oil or neem oil or Avid should do the trick and eliminate the spider mites.