There were 14 pods before the last storm a few days ago.Now there is 11 It's a 4 year old cutting.It's the most seed pods I've ever had on one plant.
Rose red loaded with seed pods
WOW exciting ! Hope they do ok for you tomorrow with our thunder storms and windy weather. Good Luck ! Merry Christmas.
Neat!
Wow!!! What is your secret to get all the seed pods?
Congrats!!!
Mickey
Hi Mickey! It's good to see you here! Thrips are the pollinators of plumeria flowers, but strong winds can cause flowers to self-pollinate as well.
Clair, My rose friends say we have trips here but I don't have roses and don't plan on starting. I have every other kind of bug..
Don, Do you plan on selling any seeds?
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Mickey
when they rippen I'll have so many I'll be giving them away.So if you can remember ask me around may or june.
Mickey, you can have some of my seeds too when they ripen. I have seedpods on 'Cancun Pink' and 'Treasure Isle.'
I've come up with a screwball theory of why I might have gotten so many seed pods.Last year I started raising Butterflys .I releashed approx.35 to 150 a month between april and oct. Butterflies are nectar eatters and have a very long proboscis for collecting and eatting the nectar.I noticed many stopping at the plumeria's and searching in the blooms for nectar.Some would stay longer than others before flying off for the next nectar source .I think it may be possible for a thrip or two to have attached it's self to the outter portion of the proboscis and carried off to the next plumeria and other plants.
See I told you it was a screwball theory.That's the only thing I can say that changed in my care of the plumeria last year.
That's a fantastic observation! I think it is really cool that butterflies are pollinators of plumerias. Pollinators have to have a long proboscis to get to those tiny reproductive organs so it does stand to reason that butterflies did indeed pollinate your plumerias since they have a long proboscis! Thanks for sharing that! That is so interesting!
Clare,I'm going to be really curious to see that probably every pod will produce a differant cross pollenated color.I have alot of Celadine and Slaughter Pink that were the one''s in bloom continuously thru the summer.So I plan on numbering the pods and planting a few from each and maybe if I'm lucky in 4 or 5 years I'll see.lol if I live that long.I'm also curious about what the scent might be,since it's so varied from Rose Red,Celadine ,and Slaughter Pink.
Boy, you are right that those three in particular are so varied from each other appearancewise and fragrancewise. I read somewhere something about plumerias having a large amount of chromosomes so a large variability is possible, even in seeds from the same pod. Hopefully, you'll get some fantastic new varieties. Keep us posted if you can. I just had one seedling bloom at 37 months old, and I'm in love with it. The fragrance is so strong and yet hard to describe. I have no idea about parentage as these seeds were collected in Hawaii by a neighbor friend.
your sure right that is a beauty!
Thanks, Don;-)