I noticed this on a cutting today. Is it a bloom thingie?
I got this as a green cutting from busybee at the swap in florala in april. she told me to let it dry a few days before i planted it so that it could callous over.
Weeellll, about 3 weeks later i "found" it, said oops and stuck it in this pot. i thought i had lost them and didnt pay too much attention to them. About a week ago i noticed the leaves started coming out, whew, not dead, good sign. Then this morning i noticed this.
I have to say that i'm a bad plummie momma, i havent fertilized it at all and the only water its gotten is what mother nature has dropped back there.
Please tell me its a bloom, lol
Is it?
Congratulations, Ms. Jen. You did all the right things. It just goes to show how easy plumerias are to care for and to maintain. Congratulations on your inflo! You will have lovely flowers in a few weeks:-) Be sure to post when they open!
I can't tell if it is sharing a container with another plant. It really needs its own container. I would carefully grab a large amount of soil around the base where the roots are and plant it in a one gallon or two-gallon container of its own. The roots are probably not that extensive at this point so now is a good time to do this.
i have 2 cuttings shoved in to a 2 gallon pot that has v. jewels of opar, i'm telling you my method was to shove these sticks in to the nearest pot i could find, which happened to be this one.
it wont disturb it if i transplant it with the flowers forming?
Jen, each plumeria should have it's own pot. Plumerias have fragile roots which break easily, but these are just starting to root so the roots won't be very long at all. It doesn't matter if some roots do break because it will continue to root. If you grab a large amount of soil around the base of the plumeria or if you carefully turn over the container and gently separate them, you should be able to separate them without disturbing the roots too much. The roots may be combined with your other plant in there so you may have to separate them.
Inflo's on rooting cuttings are not guaranteed by any means. Some people cut the inflo's off while their cutting is rooting so that energy can be directed toward rooting and not toward flowering. This is probably a wise thing to do, but that being said, I have never done it on my plumerias. I do it for all other cuttings which I'm trying to root but not for my plumerias. It is hard to do! Anyway, if the cutting does not have enough energy of its own to flower, the inflo will dry up and fall off, but the plumeria will branch at that point. Some plumerias flower and root fine at the same time. Sometimes, flowers on rooting cuttings are smaller than they would be otherwise, and sometimes the flowers are only four petals instead of five.
The answer to your question is, no, moving it will not affect the inflo, and in the long run, it is good for your plumerias to have their own space to grow in, but the inflo on a rooting cutting doesn't always bloom fully.
Here is a flower on a cutting which I am rooting now. The flower is smaller than it would be otherwise, and it only has four petals. I have other inflo's on rooting cuttings which dried up, and I have some which are starting to bloom.
Clare,
thanks for the info, i'll go out in the morning and get them seperated. I was just so excited to see a potential bloom.
Jen, it is exciting! I hope you get lots of blooms! Let us know how you make out.
MSJen,
Only you could neglect a plumeria and get it to bloom!!!
Not fair!!!!!!!!!!!! Hmmm.....maybe a buddha belly for a blooming plumeria, sounds fair to me.
Whatcha think???!!??????
LOL!!!!!
Janet
