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urszula_gw

Plumerias

15 years ago

I am kind of new around here. I recently started growing plumeria. I had four cuttings when I was newly starting out and I killed them. Four years later, I bought two cuttings (one already rooted, and one that I rooted myself). Celadine (the rooted cutting) is doing well. That is because there was a large tree that was downed in a bad storm and now I have that extra sunlight. Calcutta Star just started putting out green shoots (yay). I am fertilizing Celadine with Miracle Gro Bloom Booster (you know the drill about the high phosphorous number). I am lightly fertilizing Calcutta Star with the Bloom Booster and adding SuperThrive. I had a few downpours, but it did not hurt my plants. I have them in straight cactus mix. The direct sunlight really bumped up the root growth, so the rain doesn't do much harm. I am just watching the low temperatures. If I feel like it may be too wet, I just bring the plants indoors overnight and put them on a heating mat. Some people have problems with spider mites. Since I also grow orchids, I by chance found out that you can use a garden hose with the nozzle set on "Jet" and it will get the mites off.

Just my two cents...

Urszula

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