Welcome to the forum, Kenzie! You lucked out and found a gorgeous and generous bloomer to start with.

You may want to get a grow light--nothing terribly fancy or expensive as you have so few plants--to give your new cuttings a better chance at blooming at your higher latitude. Cuttings are best started in spring, but you may be able to root them over winter with warm conditions, too.

Seeds can be started any time. In fact, since many of mine produce seed pods that open over late summer and early fall, I often start seeds when the season is falling off for my big plants.

I wouldn't worry too much about growth rate. Judging from the very short branch length at which yours bloomed, it may just be a very compact grower. And when you have 30 or 40 of these plants in your life (it will happen, really!), you'll be thankful for those that stay small.

As long as your plant is producing leaves, it needs water. I even water all my bare "sticks" over winter, just once or twice, as their roots do keep growing and I live where winters are much milder. If you see wrinkling of stems, water. Just don't let them sit in soggy soil in cold conditions.

Good luck!

Thanks for the advice Jandey!!!! I will def look into a grow light to get the cuttings started.

All the Best!

Hi Kenzie!

I'm a newbie too, but live on the opposite corner of the US - Zone 10A. I was given a cutting a few years ago and told to wait for spring to plant it. It has been around with me for awhile. Had roots when I move here & has a real home now under a Sycamore tree. I didn't plan it, it just plopped there. Been getting caught back up on the idea of growing more, so I've been scouring for information & found that once established, a 10-50-10 is good for them and promotes blooms. I found some and my poor neglected original got a good dose. I'm not sure, but I may have an inflow!!!

I have gathered some from all over Florida. I just got 2 that came from Epcot originally & are supposed to smell like suntan lotion. I am embarrassed to say how much $ I have spent through eBay on 16 "rooted" cuttings.

I have recently read that there is no such thing as a blue one. I've got something called; "Blue Hawaii." It came with 3 purples in a package deal. I really hope that I am doing everything right with them. They came only wrapped in newspaper, in a box. Each one had a tag on it & I do need to go write them down while I can still read which is which. They were very pink and I am sure it had to do with the phytosanitary cert. "Imidacloprid," is what they were dipped in. The roots were all dry and only a few of the sparce ones had fallen off. IDK, I made my soil mix (Garden Cactus soil, potting soil,Perlite, Verrmiculite, Spaghnum moss and a little scoop of organic granular fertilizer.) Watered them good and stuck them in the sun. I's supposed to rain later this week, let nature take it's course unless... I feel like a bird waiting for eggs to hatch!

I haven't stopped yet... Any day now, I should have a package of 110 seeds of different varieties from Thailand. I am going to soak them to plump them up. I have not decided on my rooting mixture. All I read is perlite, but what nutrients are in that? I was thinking of a mix with spaghnum, vermiculite and perlite with a pinch of fertilizer. Any ideas?

Dang, got rambling, sorry... So to answer your question, if I were you, I'd keep the cutting until spring and plant the seeds when you can. They say the fresher they are, the better germination rate. The cutting is not so picky and can wait.

All the best & glad to meet another newbie on the road to Plumeria gardening!

Kat

Wow Kathy you def have a lot going on with all your cuttings and seeds on the way! You must share your progress as will I! Thanks for the input on fertilizer. TBH, my first year I used none and was able to get two very beautiful blooms so im feeling lucky! Im thinking I will wait on the cutting and maybe come March, I will start to germinate the seeds so that once its sunny here I can just set the seeds outside for real sun light!