Plumeria Cuttings

13 years ago

Hi,

I have been told the certain cuttings will not produce blooms. For example, if I took a cutting of a seedling that has never bloomed, I would never get blooms, because it doesn't have the blooming hormone. Is this true?

If so, here's my next question. If the plumeria itself has clearly bloomed, does that mean the blooming hormone goes throughout the entire plant, or only on those particular branches. For example, I have a plumeria that was given to me, which sometime in the past, clearly bloomed. That bloom produced 3 branches. However, there are two other branches on it that don't look like they were formed from blooms. Could I take a cutting of those branches and still get blooms? It looks like it has been a couple of years or more since the plant has bloomed.

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mksmth zone 7a Tulsa Oklahoma
13 years ago
I have never heard of a plumeria never blooming because of a hormone. It is true that seedlings can take a long time though. I would assume that no matter when you take a seedling cutting it will flower when it was going to anyways.

I remember someone else mentioning this flowering hormone before.

Maybe someone can clarify this

Mike
moonie_57 (8 NC)
13 years ago
I've never heard of that either. Kind of sounds like when people say you should let a dog have a litter of puppies before she is spayed. :)

Nevertheless, I'm going to ask my ex-manager if she has ever heard of anything like that concerning flowering plants in general.
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disneyhorse
13 years ago
A quick probe with google suggests that there really isn't solid science PROVING this, but it has been interesting reading about Florigen.
Seems that you can use grafting techniques for supplying the hypothesized hormone... Which would be interesting if someone wanted to test that theory with plumeria...