| Plumeria
I am wondering if anybody can help me with a plumeria I have. I have had it for three years. The first summer it grew outside, it didn’t flower. In the fall I put it in a window but the leaves didn’t start to fall off until May and it promptly grew new leaves. It summered outside again, but didn’t flower. Last fall, I brought the plant in and decided to force it into dormancy by cutting the leaves off in December and keeping the plant in a closet. I gave it water about once a month or so. In the Spring, I put it in our sunroom and started to water it. The stem was very desiccated looking. I received a plumeria as a gift in April. I grew both plants outside during the Summer. The new plumeria bloomed and my older took forever to come out of its dormancy to grow leaves, but they did grow. It took all Summer for the stem to plump up and the leaves never reached full size.
A couple of weekends ago, I brought the plumerias into our sunroom only to notice that the older one looks as though it is going to flower. The strange looking buds the eventually became flowers, that I noticed on my other plumeria are now present directly in the center of the still, not full size leaves?!? The sunroom will be cool in the winter. There are some space heaters to keep the other plants that I have in there, several varieties, from freezing. I don’t know how cold it gets in this room but my olive tree successfully flowered last winter and produced olives. I do not want to force my plumeria into hibernation and I have read that they don’t do well in green house conditions, are prone to scale and won’t flower below a certain temperature. Can you give me some advise?  |