Thanks, I remember you saying that now in another post. I have a few that are growing like crazy right now, and several that aren't really growing at all. Surely they should be growing, I treat them all the same and all of them had great active root systems when I planted them. That's the other thing that has me wondering why they aren't growing... It makes since that a bare root plant dug up the previous year would take time to establish new roots. But all of mine had been growing in pots with established healthy roots. Seems they would adjust pretty quickly but that doesn't seem to be the case with several of them. They have been stagnant for a few months now, most of them being JJs. Maybe insects?

It would be unlikely that insect damage escaped your observation. I had a few which were weeks behind for no real known reason. A couple of late starters for me this year are JJ Divine and JJ Delightful. Divine finally had blooms this month delightful will probably have blooms by early July. Both are established from 2012 and 2013 respectively.

That's interesting. My JJ delightful is growing like crazy. No sign of inflo. But I am surprised by it considering when I planted it there were hardly any roots. All of my JJ plants were rooted at a steep angle cuts. I'm wondering if maybe that has something to do with it. I have a pretty princess, Mardi gras, TLD, J4, Irma #5, and Cali Sally that were all rooted at strait cuts and each of these are growing very well. Much more stable too. As confirmed by citizen insane, the roots are coming only from the tip of the angle making the plants pretty unstable and possibly less vigorous? May be the reason my JJs, minus delightful, are doing poorly...

I am a big proponent of the straight cut on the cutting and an angle cut (as compared to the horizon) on the tree. Eventually the plant will reach a critical mass and overcome the limitation. Many plants just take a few years to get going and then they are machines. JJ plants in my experience are notorious (in a good way) for building a head of steam and then rolling along.

I also noticed that strait cuts callous and root much quicker. Which makes sense, the strait cut has a much smaller area to callous over. Well thanks for your help, I'll update this post in a few months and let everyone know how they all progressed!

What ever happened here. How did your plants grow?

Rachael, Not to speak for Chris but I am pretty sure his plants were just slow to start that year. I think he had a great remainder of 2017 and 2018 season if you look at some of his other posts. I'm sure he will chime in if he sees the question.

Hi Rachael. Yes like K said, they were slow to start. Many of them did very well and I had some great blooms to finish off 2017. This last year was setup to be very nice. Almost every one of my plumeria grew very well, very healthy and just as most of them began to bloom I had to dig all of them up in September when we listed our house for sale. Naturally, many of their inflos aborted. We are at a new house now so I am playing with some new ideas for the '19 growing season. Many of my plumeria are getting too big to be digging up next winter so I won"t be planting too many in the ground this year..

Chris- just seeing this months after you posted. A new little one and a big new house in one year! Your dedication to plumeria is impressive or else you don't sleep. Good wishes.