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Help! Saving my Kimo

10 years ago

Growing these plants in Utah is a whole new experience. I miss the humidity of Florida and Texas! I have a Kimo I successfully rooted last March and saw flower in the summer, but it isn't doing so well after this terribly dry winter. Two of my plumerias died completely. The Kimo was super dry and wrinkled when I pulled it out but I noticed it had a little bit of bright green growth on the tips and new green claws forming. I am not ready to give up! I did something most of you will probably think is wrong but I took it out of the pot (with extreme care to not break all the roots off) and I put it in water for a few days. It has plumped up quite a bit and the leaves have really started pushing out more. There is a decent amount of a root ball on it and I don't want to risk rot. (I'm actually having a lot of success experimenting with a phal orchid that is in water culture and I toyed with the idea of seeing how the Kimo does. But since it is my last surviving plumeria, I don't want to risk it.)








Can you plumeria gurus please advise me what you would do from this point? Do I plant it in a pot now? Let the roots dry out? Leave it in water? In the photo you can see it is still a bit wrinkled but it looks loads better than it was.

Thanks for any advice you can offer!

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