Hey friends i have finally completed my promise!!!
All seeds have been mail...
Everyone that email me last year recieve seeds..
The last 3 people on the list will recieve their seeds this week..
LhasaLover
josegabriele
gone2seed
Happy growing...
These trees are growing next to many many plumies and i grow gardenias to harvest thrips and manually insert them on some of my plumies..
Thrips pollinate my plumies and nothing else that i have seen over the years is capable of doing so..
...one more shot!
That is just amazing. I never new that.. Wow. And if you'd ever get more seeds, I'd love to get a few. Trade or SASBE. Wow.. I still can't get over that..
Thanks Robert, I appreciate it.
I find your thrips harvesting interesting. When I planted gardenias, which I truly like, I got white flies that I could never get rid of.
I have a question for you. I read an article that an Australian wrote for the PSA newsletter. He said that the plumerias in the desert region developed more seed pods than in the wetter parts of Australia.
I noticed that the few seed pods that I have gotten come late in the fall. It may be there are more blooms by then, but that is also our drier season. This is one of the best years I have had for blooms and none of mine have set seed pods so far this year.
Do you notice any difference in the production of seed pods in the different different seasons?
Joe
robert - i agree wholeheartedly. one day i was in the optics lab of all places pulling apart plumeria flowers because i wanted to use the microscope to photograph the reproductive organs. i found a thrip at the base of the corolla tube. it had pushed its way through the anthers and was covered with pollen. bummer! too bad that flower had been ripped off the inflo.
dete
That is just amazing. I never new that.. Wow. And if you'd ever get more seeds, I'd love to get a few. Trade or SASBE. Wow.. I still can't get over that..
Do you notice any difference in the production of seed pods in the different seasons?
robert - i agree wholeheartedly. one day i was in the optics lab of all places pulling apart plumeria flowers because i wanted to use the microscope to photograph the reproductive organs. i found a thrip at the base of the corolla tube. it had pushed its way through the anthers and was covered with pollen. bummer! too bad that flower had been ripped off the inflo.
robert - you had me confused for a moment. LOL i pulled off the flower and its pedicel intact. the thrip was on the pistil.
I love DG. I've learned so much since finding this website and the people here are wonderful. And pictures.. Especially the ones here.. Are the little long black insect thrips? Wow..
Robert (lopaka): I D-mailed you my addess.
Happy Gardening, Lindy
I am new at plumeria, (I have a yellow and white) that was given to me an would really like to grow some of my own. Can anyone help with seeds? Also, how do I get seeds off the tree i already have?
Flutter
Port St lucie, Florida
I think if you want to get seeds from your plumie, this thread is definitely where the gurus are. :) Excluding myself of course.
Great pictures Iopaka! The discussions here have gotten very interesting here lately. I have nothing but thrip around my plants, hopefully I will finally get one to go to seed. You all mention drought and stress and the natural reaction to reproduce. Do you think the plants kept very healthy will produce seed pods less than plants that are stressed slightly or even extremely?
Davie
Thank you so very much.. I can hardly wait!
Tammie
davie - you'd think with all the heat stress that our plants would be loaded with seed pods in the desert. LOL
I saw a documentary once about Joshua trees in the desert. There were hundreds of them. There was one in particular that was covered with hundred of blooms. It was dying, and this was its last attempt to propagate itself on its way out. The different between it and the other Joshua trees was amazing and noticable from a great distance away. It easily had twice or three times the blooms on it than the others did.
I would never recommend stressing your plumerias (or wisterias for that matter) to the point where it is on the brink of death and flowering to propagate itself. Ample watering and regular fertilizing is a much better way to go! LOL! This message has been brought to you by the plumeria police in case anyone is thinking about stressing their plumies on purpose! (j/k)
I too have thrips on my plumies. Robert, that was very generous of you to send out seeds to members here!
clare from the pics of your blooms you have some of the best stressed trees in socal;~)
LOL, Dete! You crack me up! Thank goodness June Gloom is over and July is warm so far. We have a little bit of a marine layer right now, but the heat should finally be here for a little while. Here's the other side of my yard. I am trying to figure out how to put the two together for a panorama view.
Well, I didn't do a very good job of it, but here is a Panoramic view of one area of my yard. Hubby sits in the lounger and reads so that chair is in the way.
Clare_CA
You have tons of plumaria there. Are you a breeders?? Wow. That's awesome. Wish I could do that too but I'm in NY. Don't think I'd have enough indoor space for that..
Lindy
Lindy, that is just a fraction of what I have, I'm afraid to say. I am very crowded here. I am not a hybridizer, but I do have a few hundred seedlings from seeds that I've sown.
OMG.
i've stopped just below 50! LOL gotta get rid of something before i bring something else in.
That is awesome. Hate to ask but if you're not a hybridizer, what are you doing with the ones you have? You need a lot of land to collect them don't you??
Like Dete, what do you do with all the ones you have??? Do you sell them online or something??
It's just hard to comprehend what one would do with all of them if you're not a hybridizer or own some sort of plumeria nursery...
LOL!
I live in the city in a twin
I use my flat roofs and stack pots also
A pot can go almost anywhere and does
I have over 200 now and another 200 cacti n succulents etc...
My home is a tropical wonderland inside all winter heh..
Icosden, when I say that I'm not a hybridizer, I mean that I don't manually pollinate and cross cultivars, but I am a grower and a collector like Michael, Robert, Davie, and Dete and many others here. You'd be surprised what you can fit on a tiny piece of property when you have the will and desire. I'm on less than an eighth of an acre. What do I do with them? I enjoy them.
I graft and make multi trees
I grow seedlings from exotic areas and exotic crosses always hoping for the 'fantastic' new one.
I collect, grow, cut and sell them to recoup some of my hobby expenses and so I can spend moolah on my lovely wife.
When I get my greenhouse it'll be a business.
Its a hobby for now and quite pleasurable when blooms come
With so many, some blooms are almost guaranteed lol!!
That is awesome. To turn your hobbie into a business. I'm a newbie to gardening since we just moved into our own home (new construction with no landscaping at all) and my husband is already worried about the few plants I have. He's complaining already that I'm turning our house into a jungle. And I only have a few items... Banana plant, miracle berry plant, spider plant and two carnivorous plants. I can just imagine if I started collecting plumeria like y'all. He'd flip. Then again, he might build me my own greenhouse. (Wishful thinking on my part...) I envy you all.
Tell him it keeps you at home and makes you think of him ;)
lolll.. That's hard to say since we travel together for work. I actually take special measure to ensure my plants survive all our business travel. But when I stop traveling, I'll use that excuse. :)
