I see that you have drips going to all of your plants and your cuttings. How often are you watering your cuttings and how often?
Mickey
AZ Grown Plumerias
I water when the soil is just about dry. Not any sooner! That's only when its hot. They usually will start leafing within a month. Roots start soon after.
Davie, your pictures are awesome! Thanks for posting them. We never get bored with pictures of plumerias and love to see them. You have a fantastic set up there! I am really jealous of all the space you have. Did you build those shade houses yourself? What are you using for name tags? It looks like wood? Thanks again for posting these pics. By the way, I got a glimpse of your reflection in the window, and you are really cute! LOL!
Thanks Clare, if you like my reflection that much, you should see me in person! LOL.
Yes myself and a friend of mine built the structure. It took a day to build. I do use wooden stakes as markers. They last a long time, and are easy to come by. I use a drafting pencil to mark on them. The lead does not fade in the sun, like permanent marker.
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Very cool. Thanks for the info. That structure is really great and will come in handy for many years to come.
Some more flowers coming from cuttings I am rooting. This was labled as Deep Yellow. Very stong sweet plumeria scent.
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Another
I would call this a red. What do you all think, red or pink? Spicy scented.
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Rainbow just starting to open.
Rainbow completely open. Does not smell as strong as whites or yellows flowering, but sweet smelling.
Ohhhh, I'm so glad to be in this forum. I now have 3 Plumies. One I know for sure is "Teresa Wilder", a very well established cutting with 3 branches but only know it's white with a yellow throat and a new seedling that again, will be white. That's all I know.
D - I have one huge question for you. Will they take FULL sun once they reach a height where the tops can no longer be protected by shade? I have all of mine in morning sun, afternoon shade now. But I'd like to plant at least one in the ground but will not, of course, if full summer sun will fry it.
Here's the one I received a few weeks ago by mail, rooted and planted it in a pot. (White w/yellow throat)
Thanks in advance,
Robin
Robin
I don't know if all varieties will work in full sun. That is what I hope to find out. Which varieties work in our environment and which don't. I have seen a few 15' tress in Yuma growing in full sun. Doing very well I might add. They were all white or yellow flowers and I do not know what varieties they were.
Davie
Nice pics, Davie!
Robin, ask Detrick what happens when you plant plumerias in the ground in your zone. He has experienced frost damage a couple of times. The very few large trees that survive in Zone 9 in Arizona are usually in Zone 9b and have several concrete and cement structures around them to protect them. They have adapted and are acclimated to cold weather over time and are usually so large that freeze damage will only cause branch dieback and not death if it is not an extended period of time.
clare, i had totally forgotten about the freeze damage until you mentioned it. wah! LOL J/K
davie - can you get pics of those 15' trees and post them? us arizona people need more inspiration. LOL
robin - the one that is coming back from below the soil is 'cancun.' i'm not sure what color it is. i bought it from the valley of the sun plumeria society.
i would hold off on planting anything in the ground right. grow them for a year and get to know them. then you can focus on what to plant in the yard. by then you might have acquired something larger that you can throw in the ground. to answer you question though, they will take lots of sun when in the ground. you just need to plant them early in the season. a warm micro climate will protect them in winter like clare said.
let me know if you have any more questions. i'll let you know if i get more that i can share.
I will try to get some pics soon.
I agree it is better to transplant form pots to ground in the early spring, late winter for us in AZ. The plants I put in the ground late last summer struggled for much longer than those put in early in the season.
I have heard that Christmas lights helps keep plumerias and other tropicals warm in light frosts. Anyone have experience with this?
Davie
Thanks, Davie.
That's my main concern. I have the perfect spot for 3 of them but perfer they be the same species.
We'll see.
azrobin,
I move my plumeria around all the time. Last year I had quite a few in full sun. Morning sun till mid afternoon.
I think you don't live very far from were I live. I would not even think of planting my beloved plumies in the ground. I am thinking about sinking the pots just for the summer but we get far to cold here. Yuma is much hotter in the summer and warmer in the winter.
There is no way on earth Christmas lights would have worked last winter here at my house!. The old style christmas lights take c 7 bulbs which are 5 watts. That's not much heat when it's 19 degrees out side. The newer christmas lights give off even less heat.
Our house is 15 degrees cooler than Mesa. I have to remind some of my plumie friends that and that is why my plumies are always behind theirs.
Mickey
Man, were developing quite a little Plumie following in AZ!
Dete, noticed your comment about Plumie hunting in Mex. Ive only seen them in the more tropical areas, never in the desert, though thats where they're supposed to have originated. And, you're looking for some palms too? You'll have to update us on what you find, I'll be very curious.
Anyway, glad to see so many other addicts in the area....
DD
Do not know how old this tree is, but its very nice. Started out up against an E facing wall but as you can see now it gets full sun.
Small tree down the street.
This is so sad a few weeks ago this tree was huge. 20 ft, huge canopy. Can't imagine why they would do this.
davie - thanks for posting the pics. you can tell from the last one that it suffered freeze damage. that's probably why the chopped it down.
No Detrick that's the sad part about it. It was fine after the frost. I checked. Do not know why they cut it.
interesting! was it full of leaves the last time you saw it? that trunk looks bad from this distance. you can see it caving in.
DD,
We have a very nice group of plumie collectors at the Phoenix Plumeria Social. The next Social is comming up in July.
Mickey
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Yeah, the last time I looked at it, 2-3 weeks ago, it was starting to fill out.
It is the same vicinity as the first two pictures. About a mile apart.
My friend and I could not believe they cut it back. We actually got out, and went into the people's yard a month after the frost to see if it had survived. No soft tips, no black tips, nothing. Can't figure it out.
I am interested in the Social, exactly when and where is it? What kind of activities we talking about?
Thanks
Davie
dbrooks,
I guess it takes all kinds...I wonder what they did with the cuttings !
Mickey
Yeah, my friend and I joked that we would have pruned it and hauled it off for free.
Davie
and i thought that only happened in hawai'i.
i have not seen many trees around in tucson. i always make myself known to the owners when i do. perhaps, that's what we all need to do and leave contact info and hopefully we can avert such tragedies.
may they be forgiven! LOL
Is that all?? ;)
Great pics - what a huge collection!!! Wish I had more room!!!
davie - you should go tallk to the owner of the mutilated 20' plumeria. what if they plan to dig up the trunk and toss it in the garbage??? it is going to start branching at some point if they leave it in the ground.
Good Idea.
I don't have the plumeria social info on my lap top. We're on vacation but will be back on July 4th.If you email me them I can get the information to who ever wants it. There has always been growers in the PHX area. They have just never marketed the plumeria group much. We have a second group now and have marketed it a littlee more. It's just about the plant and not any egos.
Mickey
(some were in Chicago,freezing)
Update of plants in the ground. Even with the amount of heat we had two weeks ago (113-116 all week), and the highs being above 105 for the past three weeks, most of my plants are looking good. These are in buried pots, and get sun until about 4pm. Most are doing well, some are a little burned.
Another view of the buried pots.
Closeup of one doing very well in buried pots.
Same pic as before, it posted twice for some reason.
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This is an example of one not taking the heat well, it is among the buried pots.
These are doing well, they are again along a south facing wall, in the ground. For the most part they are all doing great.
