Who grows plumeria from seed

Comment by Kerry Stevens on January 25, 2013 at 20:46

yes i have grown them from seed waiting on them to flower i got a mix colour seeds so its gonna be a lucky draw on what colours i get but yeah its fun to grow them from seed 

Comment by james banner on January 27, 2013 at 19:17

so far my results have been interesting, I have had a maybe 5 new flowering plants since last year.

I got a real nice yellow, a seed grown from parent Thai Ruby is similar to parent just a touch lighter, and the other ones turned out to be your normal white with pinks, will post some pics, I still have another 5 or so to flower for the 1st time this summer, and we have had just had a monstering of rain so they should all be ready to flower in 4 weeks

will add these pics

jimmy

Comment by Kerry Stevens on January 27, 2013 at 21:03

sounds great our garden took a hammering today with this weather, not too bad, some of my frangis are a bit damaged but they will recover, im hoping mine decide to flower this year.

Comment by Michelle Dalby on January 30, 2013 at 18:12

Hi James, If you grow one not too big, no rust,big flower heads and good scent maybe even evergreen in Brisbane please let me know.I have just the spot for it.

Comment by Denise Clark on February 14, 2013 at 10:26

Hi James,

I just wondered what the advantage was for growing Frangipanni by seed instead of cutting was.  Do you get suprise colours?

Cheers,

Denise

Comment by james banner on February 16, 2013 at 21:03

if you get a cutting you know what you are going to get, which I think is a good thing. I was trying my hand at germinating plumeria seed and was very successful due to the viability of the seed and a little research, so far the results have been mixed, I have gotten some run of the mill looking cultivars and also have gotten a couple of nice looking flowers. One was a seed from Black Thai Ruby which has growm pretty much close to the parent plant and I have another nice unnamed one, which is mostly yellow and looks really nice, growing these things take time and when moving house a lot of labels got mixed up, so now of the 100 plants grown only 20 or so are correctly labelled, so im playing plumeria lotto here lol

Comment by Denise Clark on February 17, 2013 at 16:10

Thanks...I guessed that must have been it...It must be fascinating waiting for the first flower.

Cheers,

Denise

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