Easiest to root sounds good!! :) Thanks Lisa I hope your cuttings root for you!

I hope yours does too! Seems like the more I fret over them, the worse they do. So I just fling a little water their way occasionally and so far I've been pretty lucky.

Update: ALL 4 of the cuttings I planted have nice roots going!!! I am currently looking for more info on the next steps after rooting and coming up empty. So, if anyone can point me in the right direction I would greatly appreciate it!

The size of your rooting container will determine when you should move to a larger container. Usually a few weeks after seeing roots all the way around the rooting container I move them to a standard 1 gallon container which is where they will stay for the first year. Generally speaking I try to keep them on the dry side of things during the first year and if the weather turns cool (not usual for me) I would recommend a heating mat to keep the soil temps up through the first year.

I used recycled clear bottles. I think they need a little more time and then I will move them to the 1 gal! Thanks!!

Love to see those roots!!!

Great advice from above..

Congratulations!!!

Laura

Good job! Whether you pot up now depends somewhat on where you live, your temperatures, and how much growing season you have left. I have some in early stages of rooting and I will probably just keep them in the smaller plastic rooting bottles either under lights or in our bay window for the winter. We will soon be experiencing cooler nights and much shorter day lengths. My bottles are a bit larger than your cups though.

I am in central FL zone 9, I can only dream of cooler nights right now :) Yesterday we haD a surprise 5 minute storm here with 25 mph wind gusts and all my plants turned over. I was worried about these guys but they seem to have made it.

Central Florida -- then you can certainly pot them up after a few weeks. I'd let the root system get larger though. Roots can nearly fill the rooting containers. The tighter the rootball, the less chance there will be of root damage when repotting this way. Use a lot of perlite (50%) or pumice, if you have it available, and pot up to 1 gallon. You can start watering just a bit on the ones that show roots --- just to keep soil barely moist. Your humidity will do a lot to keep them hydrated during the rooting process.

Since the weather is warm and my plumeria are outside now I thought I would do an update! I am really looking forward to seeing all of the plants this year! Thanks to the wonderful advice I recieved from the forum all 4 of my cuttings rooted nicely. Three even have some sort of inflo starting. I repotted the top two just a few weeks ago!

GREAT JOB!!! :) Really nice, I'm so happy for you and look forward to all of your beautiful blooms!

Thank you! I'm really excited to learn more this year!

Lightcyan, those are gorgeous! Would you mind linking me to the rooting instructions you followed?

I was given 2 cuttings last fall, and just retrieved them from the garage. One died (featherlight & dried out) but the other has a beautiful green tip with red growth. The root end is shriveled and dried out. Should I make a fresh cut or just plant in growing medium? Thanks, and I'm in Jax Beach, 9a.

Thank you Violet, I used these instructions to root my cuttings. :)

http://www.mauiplumeriagardens.com/about_cuttings.php

How exciting! :) I really want to add a plumeria to my garden. I need to go look this weekend. I like the beautiful colors they come in. Where I live they usually sell red, pink and yellow I believe. I like the more unique colors. :) I hope you will keep posting pictures and updates.

Peaches and sunscreen? Those scents sound right up my alley. :D

Not to bust into someone else's thread, but do you think a gritty mix supplemented with additional bark suffice? Or a mix of soil and +50% perlite?

To root cuttings I use a soil / perlite mix, but I can't say about the gritty mix maybe someone else who does gritty can chime in - Laura in VB uses it I know for sure.

LightCyan,

Nice work. looks like you will have some nice blooms in a couple of weeks. You will soon be familiar with what we call an "ohcomeonalready" moment. That precise point in time when your bloom clock is up but the plant is still taking its sweet time.

Becky,

I think the key thing will be the size of the bark you want to add. Each Gritty mix component must have a specific size in order for the engineering and physics to work just right. My recommendation would be to use gritty mix for rooting as is without amendments if you have it. After all it's perfect as is... ; P

K