Great photos, please update us all with more pics when the flowers open. It seems that heat can play a big role in the color and vibrancy of the Mardi Gras flower.

I have several Mardi Gras seedlings that are beautiful, vigorous plants...but

could be several years from blooming as they are now a little over a year from seed.

Mardi Gras seedling (1yr. 3mos. old)

Well... They finally bloomed! I don't know... Perhaps it's just me, but after waiting three years it seemed very anticlimactic. Personally, I really don't find the flowers to be all that beautiful... And the scent has a rather odd fragrance to it. Certainly not a scent I'd want to be too up close and personal with. For fragrance I'll take a rose or gardenia any day over this scent. And for sheer beauty I'll stick with my orchids. I do believe come fall... this plant is going to the curb. Let someone else deal with it's stingy blooming habit and peculiar fragrance. Perhaps I will be more pleased when my Celadine comes into bloom. But so far.... Have to say I'm not seeing what all the excitement is about over plumerias.

Scott I think it looks beautiful! I'm pretty sure one of the members here would love to adopt this one if you don't fall in love with it. Celadine has one of the most sought adter

bkooms so I hope you'll like that one.

I'll definitely adopt it from you. Just let me know!

LOL. You can always look for a different variety.

From what I can tell, plumeria show much greater variability in both growth and flower production, when recently established in smaller pots. Remember, a plumeria is a tree, albeit a small one that you are growing in a pot under most likely less than ideal conditions than if it were a young tree planted in the ground...yet, we still want it to produce and put on a show for us. Thankfully, many in pots do and others require more patience. Just my two cents. Aloha.