My Bird ate about an inch out of my Plumeria. It was just a stick that I had planted last year. Now what is going to happen to it ? It is all chewd up on the top should I cut it even ? It is sill over a foot tall.I am rady to have bird stew...not really but I sure am mad....lol
Help ,my bird ate my Plumeria !
flowerpower57
Jan 20, 2008
Actually, now you'll probably have two tips instead of one, which means twice as many flowers next season, which is not a bad thing;-) I wouldn't do anything either. It will branch at the nodes below the eaten part. You might want to watch your bird for signs of a tummy ache. The milky white latex sap can be poisonous in large doses.
flowerpower57
Jan 20, 2008
Bird lived throught the night,,maybe he didn't eat any of the plant. I am new to Plumeria's so is it good to cut off the tips to make more branche's ?
does anybody hear ever forgo blooms in order to increase branching? and when do you do the cutting (if you don't have a bird, lol)
I don't know if I'm brave enough, but if you do it successfully, then maybe I might try
i don't think animals will die from eating plumeria. my friend's dog ate one of his plumeria and lived to bark about it.
Flowerpower, plumerias normally branch when they bloom so natural branching is usually preferred to forcing branching. I personally don't like the look of a cut branch or cut tip, but it smoothes out over time, and some tip damage or breakage is bound to happen sometime.
Yeah, Dete, I haven't heard of any pet deaths either, but it may have given him a tummy ache. I think the sap is supposed to be poisonous, but one would have to ingest a lot of it. I know it stings terribly if it gets in your eyes.
Nery, if I am going to prune one of my trees, it is usually because somebody that I know needs a cutting of mine and not because it needs pruning. I still don't have any trees big enough that need pruning. Once in a great while, I'll take some cuttings, and when I do, I always try to leave one or two nodes left so that new branches can sprout from where I made the cut.
A couple of times, I've cut off the tip of a single-branched plant, knowing that two or more branches will spring up in its place. Once, one of my seedlings had black tip, and I rubbed it out with my fingers, and five branches sprouted from the nodes around the damaged tip.
In general though, when people prune, they prune some branches but not all so that they can be assured of flowers for the season.
Bird Gumbo is vey good I hear
vossner, i cut the frosted ends off of mine early this past spring as you suggested. it not only branched out wonderfully, every single new one grew enough this summer to bloom (all in one season). good thing i took a big old cutting from that plant late this summer because the freeze we had a few weeks ago killed the mother plant dead. the cutting you brought me is doing great!
great to hear ms Track. Funny you should post here, I was doing my front of the house inspection and my 3 roses are doing sooooooo great and I made a mental note to write you but mental note disappeared somewhere in my brain.
anywho, it's positive energy coming and going, I tell ya!
woo-hoo!