Brighty, didn't you guys in CA get some cool weather last month? That might've stalled them, especially if they're very young plants. How long have they been rooted?

Jen

I live in La Verne, and this year, some of my plants are doing strange things. One plant has blossoms galore, but the leaves are still large claws, not opening into leaves, another one the inflos all died off and fell off the plant. Yet, many of my new cuttings and most of my existing trees are blooming just fine. I think it has been our strange weather this year. My neighbor has a batch of plumeria also, and she too has a couple of plants that the inflos died and fell off, or the leaves haven't developed but blossoms still grow.

This is an old picture of the one where the leaves haven't developed. I finally cut off the inflos today even though all 6 inflos have been producing flowers all summer, and one new inflo getting ready to put out blossoms!

This is the one where the inflos died off, I had at least 5 different inflos developing, and just before they opened up, they all died off and dropped off. I think it may be the weird weather we have had.

Jennifer

Hmmm, maybe it is the strange swing in our weather this summer. Jandey, these cuttings are 3 years old, and these are their first inflows. Labland, I'm sorry your inflows dropped off. :-( The plant looks so healthy. Hopefully mine won't fall off.

Thanks for your advise.
Brighty

Brighty,

Hang I'm there! You wouldn't be a donkey fan would you? No disrespect. I just flashed back to a story I read as a kid a hundred years ago about a donkey named Brighty from... I think the Grand Canyon. I used to spend my summers in Southern Utah, Grand Canyon area (my parents used to deer hunt in Kanab every October as I was growing up). I also had horses growing up, and have always been a horse fanatic.

Cool name! Anyway, I have A LOT of plumerias, yes I was bummed that the inflos fell of one of my plants. But the others are doing great!

Oh my gosh, I remember "Brighty of the Grand Canyon." I read it in the 4th grade. I loved that book. I didn't get the name from that, but I might pretend that I did. Ha ha.

I spent my summers camping along the Colorado River. Always wanted to ride the donkeys thru the Grand Canyon. Never did.
Hopefully some day! Guess I'm a donkey fan and didn't even know it. Ha ha.

I had a thread going earlier this month regarding a plant with a similar condition. It also had many inflos and blooms, but no leaves.
I think it was too much water, but it possibly could have been something else.
I ended up digging it out. The stem and roots were pretty bad.
I just dug another one up today which displayed the same symptoms. Such is life, more cuttings for next spring.
**Here are some pics for reference.**
Good luck, woody
Camarillo, CA

WOW!!!

That really hurts....so sorry for the loss...

What do you think caused this?

Thanks for showing us the pics..

At least u can start some cuttings...are te tips still clean?

Good luck!!!

Laura in VB

Woody, that is strange looking. Is that rot? Sorry about your plants.

Brighty

I think it was too much water. That plant was getting blasted by sprinklers 3x per week. It did make it like that for about 2.5 years--this spring was when I noticed the no leaf situation.
When I cut into it it was most definitely rot, the roots were rotting as well.
I was able to turn it into 3 nice cuttings.
Have a great day,
Woody

I have been there and it is a sad day. This is a lesson to be learned that underwatering is always better than overwatering.

I am glad you were able to create more plants from it! I cut the inflos off mine a couple of days ago. Mine are in a very dry situation. Every time I check with the meter, it reads dry, so hopefully overwaterinug is not my problem. I will be watching to see if my leaves start to develop now that there are no inflos!

What are you fertilizing with? What are your growing conditions i.e., temp & ?