Growing Frangipani
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Growing Frangipani from a cutting
Comments (16)Hi Janine Martin's and Carol I am also from Jhb, I import plumeria/frangipani seed and grow them. Frangipanis are relatively full up here, many have them on their pavements but it is the normal white, yellow, light pink or a darker pink. As our climate in summer is very hot rooting a cutting I a pot would mean that every now and again you would have to spray the soil to keep it just slightly moist of the cutting g may dry out completely and die. Keeping them to moist causes rot and you will lose the cutting. In milder climates the soil won't dry out as quickly as I South Africa but here I find missing the pot every 3 days or so in summer keeps just enough moisture in the pot to prevent drying out. I also use a an instrument to measure moisture content in my pots especially amorphophallus as they need water but not too much. Regards Vici...See Morewrinkled
Comments (7)Federal_Hill, wrinkled stems means the plant is not uptaking enough water and some of the stems shrivel because they lose more moisture than they uptake from the roots. Either the roots are rotted or the soil mix loses its moisture too fast or the plant is not watered enough. I had a similar problem with large plumerias planted in 25-gallon pots. I watered them every day and still some of the stems were wrinkled. What was causing it was the soil mix. It was too sandy and did not retain enough moisture. I repotted the plants in the same pot but used a soil mix that retained a lot of moisture (with 50% perlite and pumice). The wrinkled stems problem went away (maintained the same watering schedule as before). If I was you I would check the roots first to make sure they are not rotted. Then I would re-pot adding a lot of perlite and pumice to the mix. George...See MorePlumerias losing leaves in warmer areas??
Comments (19)I just purchased some pulmeria cuttings from a lady in Hawaii. The instructions say that they will go dormant in the winter, being I'm in the midwest & that it will be the second year before they will bloom. Is there anything special you do to get them to bloom? I have a lemon tree indoors in the winter, it puts out a ton of blooms in Jan. & then again in the spring before I put it outside & the ones in Jan. fall off and produce no fruit. Oh, also wanted to say, my lemon tree loses all it's leaves when I bring it indoors in the fall, but they come back after it adusts to being inside for the winter. The ones in the spring produce small lemons, I had 19 last spring, but all the fruit fell off within a week. Just hoping my pulmeria do bloom. My hairdresser has one in her home & it wasn't even near a window & it had gorgeous blooms on it last week & is about 6 foot tall. After seeing that, I had to have one. Thanks...See MoreI can't believe the size of this seed pod.
Comments (11)Hee Haw everyone..... said "Pedro the Burro"..... translated..... "Thank You" Yes it is a cutie we have had our eye on him for a couple of years but have not been to the market for about a year, the guy was selling all his products for 20% off then he took it to the nearest $0 so cheaper again. Pedro is a metre tall and so heavy. Hubby wants to paint him grey, shock horror I like him the colour he is as he sits well on the orange pebbles..I still have not found the right spot for him, it will come. Yes GH I will do as you say for his basket seeing they said on the news tonight we will have to water all of our garden with a bucket, gosh that is going to be hard, its such a big garden and they are not all natives. Thanks for that info about the seeds Alison very interesting hey if anyone wants seeds later you know who to ask. Pedro said he would be back later looking cuter than ever ....Cheers..MM....See Moremistymorn
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