Arrrgghh.... life is cruel, heavy branches break
I came home today and found massive branch off my pride and joy cracked off, gravity being a cruel fiend to my tree.
I have two plumerias I could try and use for rootstock, or I could try and root what is essentially a good sized tree in and of itself, although only a fraction of the whole tree, or I could get quite a number of good sized cuttings from this beast, at least 8 or 9.
Any thoughts? I have ZERO experience rooting, it is late in the season for rooting I would imagine.
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10 years agoHey Mike,
Awhile back on couple of the different plumeria forums there were threads where plumie experts stated that branches that broke off and were left as is would root faster and better then if you cut it clean. Hetty Ford also tried rooting a cutting that broke off and was jagged and it rooted quicker than a conventionally cut cutting. Supposedly it has to do with survival mechanism, where the trauma causes the plant to root. Sort of like when a plumies is dying or sick sometimes when its on its last leg you will notice that the plant will try to send up inflos on all the tips as a last ditch effort to reproduce.Here is an example of a Hilo Beauty branch that was broken off when the tree blew over during a Feb wind storm. The broken branch was not dipped in rooting hormone or calloused over. Basically the branch was found the next day when the tree was propped upright again. The jagged, rough cutting was just poked into the mother trees pot, even though it was cold and winter. The cutting was rooted, pic taken after the cutting was pulled out of the mother plants pot in June.
So basically Id leave your Typhoon cutting as is and just root it. I would also just leave all the branches on for now as I would not want excess sap to escape right now, you can always prune it later next season after it roots. This will give you a chance next season to see the shape of the new plant and decided after it leafs out if it needs a trim.
Good Luck
Cheers
Jamesmjhuntingtonbeach
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10 years agoWow, you too had a J105 accident? After a bad year last year where my J105 hardly threw off a leave I decided to plop it in the ground. Late May I was checking that one and another behind it for growth and I guess I pushed too hard on the branch with my leg... broke right off. Happy ending, I now have a 5 branch new J105, rooted right away... and I gave a 7 inch cutting to a friend from Costa Rica and he now has a growing thriving J105 also. The last time I tried to root a J105 it took over a year to root and start growing. Go figure :)
So far I haven't inspected the broken end that I moved to face a cinderblock wall, but it seems happy :) I attached an awkward photo, you can see there is new growth around the top of that wound, but it has had 4 months to heal.
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10 years agoWish me luck. Now in a 5 gallon, root hormone applied, two stakes to hold it up.
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10 years agoJames,
Your comment about thinning the leaves made sense - I came home today and gravity and the prevailing winds was starting to push the remaining tree over.... I thinned as you suggested and grabbed what redwood stakes I had around to prop them up. Hopefully it works as we can get some near hurricane force winds sometimes that seem to gust in and around corners, things fly all over. I should probably find a few more sturdy stakes to use for the fall/winter.
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10 years agoI too have had branches break off, my question is there something to seal the break to prevent it looking like this?
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9 years ago10 months later and time is beginning to heal the wounds of my sudden branch loss last September. After losing that one large branch, I ended up cutting off the opposing branch in April to avoid the tree leaning off to the other side, so the 4 original branches became just two. The gaping wound left by the broken branch is almost healed over. The tree still hasn't grown out too much in the direction of the damage but I am sure it will over time. Blooming this year is a bit less, most of the inflos are buried deep in the foliage.
The large branch that broke off still hasn't rooted, very strange, but it is still firm so I expect it will eventually do so. Leaves are trying to grow out but they aren't opening up as I would expect if there was any rooting activity at all.
The tree as it looked this weekend:
The wound left on the trunk, gradually growing over and sealing up:
Some of this year's flowers:
The still, as of yet, unrooted branch, 10 months later:
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9 years agoWell suddenly starting last week, the large Typhoon branch seems to finally have rooted, just shy of a year after it broke off my main tree.
Now my only question is .... what to do with another large Typhoon, and what appear to be two other cuttings that will soon be taking off.... an embarrassment of riches haha.
jandey1
9 years agomjhuntingtonbeach
9 years agoWell now that it has leafed out, the one inflo that has been on this cutting since it cracked off the main tree has been blooming with some very intense colors. Small flowers but very intense coloring, almost similar to the picture in Jungle Jack's online catalog. I'm sure the last week of intense heat hasn't hurt, nor the stress of surviving without roots for almost a year.
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