Hey gang, I am nw to this forum although i love Daves garden. i have been a butterfly gardener for a few years and was given a Plumeria last summer from a friends Mom who died. it is a mostly white flower with yellow. I am interested in raising some of my own as they smell great and are beautiful. Does anyone have seeds to help a newbie get started? I love the look of the pink and darker ones but beggers can't be choosers.
Flutter
Plumeria newbie looking for seed help
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I have some australian can can seeds
ONE POINT, FLUTTER. WITH PLUMERIA SEEDS, YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT COLOR THE BLOOMS WILL BE (PART OF THE FUN). ONLY A CUTTING FROM A RED PLUMERIA WILL BLOOM RED, ETC.
Karlae, I don't know if you realize this, but you are yelling with those all caps on! I'm sure you don't mean to. You are right that cuttings are true to the parent and seeds are not. Seedlings can take 3-5 years to bloom and may look like the parent or may look totally different. You could get a white with yellow center from a red pod parent, or you could get a red from a white with yellow center pod parent. You just never know what you are going to get, but you do have to be very patient to find out as seedlings can take years and years to bloom for the first time.
Wow that is interesting!! How does that happen? So only a cutting will prove to be the same color flower. I am so perplexed by this. %)
Flutter
Thanks Clare, you posted the message the same time I was replying to Karlae. So the plant will grow in those 2 years but the flower just takes a long time. As long as I see growth I am sure I am okay with it. Still perplexed about the color thing :)
Flutter, cuttings of a cultivar are the same genetic make up as the cultivar. Seedlings have their own genetic make-up and could look like anything.
The thing about seeds, though, that everyone should know is that sometimes thousands have to be sown in order to get a really special-looking flower. Thailand is at the forefront of seed sowing these days, and fields and fields of seedlings by the thousands are being sown, but the special ones are hard to come by. Jim Little in Hawaii sows hundreds, if not thousands, of seeds to find that special one.
If you choose seeds with special traits -- i.e., large flowers, great fragrance, bright colors, thick petals -- you increase your chances that those traits will be passed on. I am only saying this so that people are not disappointed when waiting for years and years for their seedlings to bloom only to have them turn out to be inferior in some way. I've been sowing seeds for several years now and have hundreds, and I've gotten one or two nice blooms, but some blooms have definitely been less than average.
I have a seedling from India right now that is exhibiting long knobby thin branches with very very dark leaves.
They look black at night.
Im hoping for a red stenopetala as some seeds came from a stenopetala seed parent
Not one of the seed parents or pollen parents were ordinary so I may hit the jackpot heh...
3 are pushing inflos right now.
not to be naive, but what are inflos? I've seen it mentioned several times...
Inflos is short for inflorescence. It is the flowering part of the plumeria - the cluster of blooms.
so infos are the bud then?
It is not one single flower, it is the whole cluster, or group, of flowers that grows from one stem.
sorry to be so dense.. so infos is the branch that has the buds then?
That is what I have learned an Inflo is. Inflo not info :)
ohhh.... me bad. guess everyone can tell I'm a newbie
Here are some threads with pictures of inflo's:
http://davesgarden.com/forums/t/733471/
http://davesgarden.com/forums/t/714239/
http://davesgarden.com/forums/t/698371/
http://davesgarden.com/forums/t/725016/
Thanks for explaining to this newbie everyone..