Where to cut?

I have some plumerias that I've let get too tall. I looked thru the ""sticky, but haven't seen where the best place is to cut back....and if now is a good time to cut....and will the end pieces bloom this year??? This one is an example of how the others look. Should I cut each of the main 3 branches approx. where the supporting stick is? 'Then place the cuttings in warm sand to root? We're thru with winter here, but having severe thunderstorms with wind and hail. Most of my plumerias are in pots, but I do have some tall ones that I replant each spring. They look pretty pitiful this year, so would like to cut them back to a more manageable height. Can anyone help me?

The place where you indicate you plan to cut is fine (leaving a 3-4 inch piece for re-growth), and this is the perfect time to cut.
Let the cuttings heal for a week or so and then plant them and yes, those will bloom. The main plant will have to re-grow tips before it will bloom.

Your plants look like they might be reaching for the sun.... if they are shaded at all they will grow lanky like that.

Thanks for quick reply. The tall ones are in sun in mornings/dappled sun in the afternoons...but I think I let them stay in garage too long before replanting them last year. Then I just forgot about them till it was too late to think about cutting them back. I'll cut them back this afternoon! The shorter ones in pots can be moved around as the sun moves thru summer.
Appreciate the response....Sandi

In my experience (somewhat limited, but I try to follow the advice of Dutchlady and other Wise Ones), you could have five plants from this one. Cutting each branch off as you suggest (about six inches from the three-way main fork), will give you three, cutting about 12 inches below the main fork will give you another one, and the "stump" ought to do fine, branching again at or near the cut top.

I did this with a very similar, more awkward plant, and though I haven't seen blooms on the cutting yet, they all look healthy and well rooted so I am confident I will.

some pics follow, starting with the gangly starting point...

Now I have five plants --they all look as good as this one, the first cutting (without the later trunk damage you see, which has healed quite well since), but dang, I can't find pictures of the others.

Best result is the the mother plant is now more compact with better branching.

I thank the great advice I got here on how to root plumeria cuttings --even a "hacker" like me can succeed with sound advice.

Thanks for cutting suggestion! That makes perfect sense. I've let some of the old ones I have get too tall and leggy. I'll have to "re-evaluate" those too.
I also bought a dozen cuttings from someone who was closing his nursery in FL 2 yrs ago. I didn't know that none would have IDs because of the latest hurricane. But I felt sorry for the grower, and figured I would love them anyway no matter the colors. Didn't know I wouldn't see the blooms either for another 2 or 3 yrs! This summer should have lots of blooms.....if we don't get hit with another hail storm....

Be careful what you wish for....I now have a plumeria forest in a very small sun alley in my backyard. I have a mostly shady backyard due to encroaching oak trees. I chopped all the tall branching ones and let them "cure" for a week...as suggested. In my enthusiasm I did forget to mark which plants I took them from, so now have lots of budding orphans. I'd show a photo, but it's too dark. I think DH has reached his tolerance max.

Sounds like you have it all figured out. Your cuttings should flower unless the were cut off seedlings. I see alot of people doing that on ebay.
So you have figured out these are like potato chips can't just have one. Good luck!

Bibbubbles, I didn't see your ? til today. But Where you cut is where I would have cut. In fact that is exactly what I did with a couple of mine.

Nery, my backyard looks like a pot ghetto on one side. I hate to plant them in the ground. W hen I pull them up and stick them in the garage in winter, they somehow continue to grow long spindley branches in the dark with no water. They do much better potted in the temporary greenhouse, and have a jumpstart on spring. But I can't stand to look at all the pots....and it's the only sunshine spot. I'd show a pic, but I'm too embarassed by the mish-mash!!!! I need a bigger yard, or an unscrupulous tree trimmer.....

I have a small ghetto area which I created in the pool pump area. Thank goodness it is fence enclosed, I can't stand to look at that mess. I hear ya. I didn't realized they continue to grow in shaded garage, that's wild.

We inadvertantly learned a pruning lesson by way of Hurricane Ike. We have a lot of Plumerias, and when we left for Ike there was absolutely no way to take them. Most were tall with several limbs. So we cut the limbs off just above the forks, and figured if the storm took the Plumerias we'd still be able to root the cuttings. Well.... Ike went right around us and hammered Galveston, so we lost nothing. The cut trees are putting on at least two new branches at each cut, most of the cuttings rooted once we got back, and we've given Plumerias to lots of friends. We were amazed at how the plants put on at those cuts. This fall, we're going to do the same thing to some of the others that are a bit spindly and next year they should branch out as well. Don't be shy- whack away !!! Jim