Was this a seedling or a cutting? Sometimes seedlings get stunted and grows slowly, sometimes due to poor growing conditions.

Thank you Gigi and Bossyvossy for replying to my question. This was a seed planted in 2014 that refused to grow. I haven't seen any dwarf or mini's in person so I don't know what to look for. Since it was tiny and already sprouting branches I thought it was a dwarf. Now, I have another question. But first....

I bought my first miniature from Jungle Jack's collection though Lowe's this weekend. A Divine! I thought miniatures were smaller though, because I was comparing it to my seedling which I thought was a dwarf.

So, back to my question. I kinda like how small my seedling is. Do you think if I grow a few other seeds without fertilizing and perhaps trimming the roots carefully I can keep another seedling this small? (I'm pretty sure I fertilized the seedling the same time I fed my other plumerias though. I don't think I did anything differently to it than the other plants.)

Here is the picture of my little seedling next to Divine...

I have a few stunted seedlings in my collection that were grown in small pots since 2012 for the purpose of keeping the bonsai look. I didn't fertilize them and the ones I fertilized and uppotted had started blooming and others are just now starting to bloom. However the stunted seedlings are just the same, stunted seedlings with no signs of growing any inflo.

So the answe is "Yes", you can keep it small because some of my experiment stunted seedlings are only 6 feet tall at 4 years old. I transferred them to bigger pots but they are refusing to grow. So stunted ones could mean no blooms for years.

No way anyone could tell at this point of this is a naturally occurring dwarf or just a slow seedling but just thought I would also offer this...Statistically speaking I'm sure its quite rare but there has to be a naturally occurring genetic dwarf string which happens once out of every # of seeds.

It's kind of a cool looking plant so I would just enjoy the shape and type of growth its giving you for what it is right now.

K.

Don't have a plumie crystal ball but based on common sense, I still think your seefling is a stunted regular. I can't comment on how to keep stunted or about how it affects flowering B/c I don't do it. My primary goal in growing plumie

Here is same comparison using a compact plumie, which is not a dwarf in the strict sense of word but growth pattern is tighter

Here is my true dwarf pink, overall shot

Here is comparison by foliage, reg vs dwarf

Unrelated to your ?, I have grown only one plumie from seed and it took NINE YRS to bloom!