Hey Karen, I always tell people be careful of what you wish for u might end up getting it..lol. A lot of plumie people always try to put their plumies in huge pots and over feed them so that they will grow quicker. Sometimes when you do too much to your plants you get a lot of green growth and less flowers so moderation is key. All my little single tip cuttings are now huge trees like Bill was saying, soon you will be out of room..just enjoy what you have. I am posting some pics I took today when I drove out to my Plumies. I am posting the pics to show you example of different anomalies. Please excuse the quality but I took the pics with my IPHONE since I didnt have my camera with me. Daisy Wilcox: Example of how the Daisy W seals off sometime for no reason Daisy Wilcox: Pic of what a branch looks like after it seal off and grows a while, this branch is 2 season old: Samirie: Here is an inflo that ended up like yours on your DW to show you that it can happen to even established plants: Musk Rainbow: To show your stages of an inflo turning into a tip/growing branch: Golden Pagoda from Hawaiisandy: Again this spring has been weird. Alot of inflos started out late, in Nov 2007, these inflos usually will grow and bloom but this year most of them are not..as in Golden pagoda Sundance: Last year inflos not thriving Purpla Jack aka Muang Jack: This is more poor Purple J. from Thailand. It is 8ft tall and has many tips. A lot of the tips are producing inflos, some normal but a lot are very small and the ones that started in Nov are again not doing anything. Here are several pics of her. Finally here is an example Karen of when an inflo turns into a fully groing tip/branch Guillot Sunset plant: Again this is more of a study of the metamorphosis of inflo to tip/branch. Also a pictorial listing of weird inflo season.

Well that is the thing, these all have always branched before. It wonder if it is the weather. The developing inflos before flowers must be related to the weird early hot weather. It was quiet strange this is a picture of the Hawaiian Flag when the first inflos. You see the tiny leaf? That was what the whole plant was like at first! After the flowers opened, the leaves all great within a week! Again, this is Hawaiian Flag By the way, Armstrong's Lavender Splash you will find to be Princess Victoria. Mine the first few years had the nice splash effect, but I haven't seen it this year. In fact mine is going downhill this year, smaller leaves, smaller flowers. I will watch for it next yesr. I had transplanted it from a pot into my planter early in May, hopefully it will spring back next year. Lavender Splash aka Princess Victoria. It also always branched after/ before the flowers opened up, until this year. These two pix are a 2years ago. This is a picture from earlier this summer. If you can see, the leaves are smaller and narrower than previous years along with the flowers being smaller. Also, it used to be my first to flower, but flower all summer. Now it seems to be at the end of its flowering, something is wrong!! I think I am going to switch fertilizers. I have to think something is lacking in my soil???

Thanks, Moonie. It was Bill M. It got a little cooler over here so I got to the see colors change. Big inflo, I've really enjoyed this one. I'll keep my eyes open for a Liilian C. pic. I'll tell you something funny about how plumies have changed my life in small ways. The other day I was in the kitchen, and I turned and smelled a strong fresh peach scent - and immediately thought - "Oh, I must have left a California Sunset bloom on the counter!" Of course, it turned it was actually - a peach. Didn't think of that! How things turn. Call your white "White Kapalua" and sell cuttings on eBay for $599! It could work. Or say it's a Kukiat cousin, you found at the field next door to Kukiat's. Or wait - Dane is $300 plus - call it White Great Dane and make it just $299 and appeal to both dog and plumeria lovers! Marketing is important! You are right though, our whites have great qualities and don't get the attention they deserve. I think I'll refer to mine as "The Possible Official Plumeria of Elon Musk's Hyperloop". That should give it some prestige! I await feedback from the scientific community!

They were talking about how sometimes an info can turn into a branch at yesterday's Plumeria Society meeting. At first the new branch looks a bit strange, but after a few years you can hardly tell it started out as an info. Lack of leaf scar is one way to tell. They did mention that Nebels Rainbow has a tendancy to do this. I think its very cool. I'd say leave it be and let it grow!