We are a group of plumeria and hoya lovers from Turkey. We are growing hoyas in here successfully, but we are just started with plumeria seeds here. I want to ask to experienced friends:
Is plumeria absolute outdoor plant or can we grow it indoor?
Is direct sun light is absolute necessity, and how many hours should it take direct sun light indoor?
Indoor Plumeria growing Mediterranean climate Is it possible
Hello Hoyadag, welcome!!
What are your temperatures throughout the year, does it ever freeze where you live? Many people here in the US will store the plumeria in the winter when they go dormant, but where I live (SW Florida) we leave them outside year round.
Direct sun is pretty much necessary during their blooming period.
Tell us more about your growing conditions.
Hello there, yes, plumerias are tropical trees, but they can be grown under artificial conditions and supplemental heat and light for six months of the year. They can be grown in containers and moved outside during the warm seasons. They can tolerate any temperature above freezing while outside. For the best blooming results, full sun is best, which is 6 hours or more of direct sun. Heat is the key to growing them successfully under less than tropical conditions.
Thank you for concern my friends,
I wrote down monthly mean heats in Turkey,
Jan: 5 Celcius, Feb:4, March:8, April:13, May:19, June:25, July:27, Aug:29, Sep:21, Oct:17, Nov:9, Dec:6
Almost never freeze in here. May be once a year. If I grown it indoor with 4 hours full sun, will I never seen its blooms,
This message was edited Oct 25, 2007 11:15 AM
Well, with a low of 5 Celsius or 41 Fahrenheit, you could grow them outside year 'round. If you got a warning that a freeze was coming, you could just cover them. It sounds like you can plant them in the ground with those temps. If you still want to grow them indoors, you could, and you still might see some blooms, but indoors blooms are always inferior to outdoor blooms. The plant has less energy so colors are often muted or absent, and flower size could be small. I think glass might filter out certain spectrums or UV rays, but I'm not sure about that. That would be worth investigating. You can buy full spectrum plant lights, and that would certainly help. However, these trees were meant to be grown outside at least for part of the year.
i would grow them outside, too. why not experiment. try one outside and one inside. i'm sure you'll be more pleased by the one outside. even throw one in the ground like clare suggested. i'm sure you will not be dissappointed.
dete
Hoyadag i am from Kibris and i grow them very well here both in the garden and in pots.
Most of mine have been started from seed apart from a few cuttings i have been lucky to get hold of. What part of Turkey are you from???
Teresa