dlpsych - Cindy, thank you for the nice compliments. Sunny daze gardener - thank you for the nice comments. Rita - thanks for your comments. Laurelin - thank you for the comments Shive - thank you, this is from seeds i bought off the auction, so i didn't really know anything about the parents other than i thought they were pretty:-) I don't have a hybrizing program, i just enjoy growing from seed and getting pretty blooms.

Gothic Finery is great, I know I’ve not seen it before. I’m guessing you have some crossing in mind for it. OMG, all,of those seedlings, the weather is nice this week, hope you get them all in the ground. Sherry

n.f.p.- good question. If I had to pick a size and age I'd say 2.5 to 3 feet tall and 4 years old as a median/average...and that's probably still a tad on the optimistic side. Of course, you have to factor in whether you're growing in a colder shorter season place or a hotter, more tropical longer season place. If I were to start over I'd grow them fast with something nitrogen heavy, progressively upotting, lots of sun and heat, pots on concrete. Then at 2.5- 3 years of age, put the seedlings on Excalibur from Florida Colors, a time release commercial grade plumeria specific fertilizer. Putting my seedlings on Excalibur last year got me ridiculous bloom rates this year...that seems to be how it works. I used to swear by organic growing for plumeria, but all it got me were bushy green plants and alot of bugs...I'm not growing a salad. Pictured is a (first year blooming) Rising Sun seedling. I've got three Rising Sun Seedlings blooming... and so it appears, a total of 9 first time bloomers this season! For what it's worth: I had one bloom at two years, three bloom at 3 years, and now nine bloom at four years.

What a beautiful group of seedlings you are getting from Dearest Valentine! I love the lavender one and am glad that its stats are improving for you. We are finding that many of ours keep improving even after we have registered them. I also love the pink seedling. I am glad Rosie is blooming for you. It definitely is not an early morning or cool morning opener. The flowers here have been huge this year and the color even deeper. I just wish it were taller. I hope it reblooms for you. Ours do even in our dry sandy soil. Rosie Cotton's Ribbon's name is a reference to an event in the movie The Return of the King (the Lord of the Rings trilogy). After the ring is destroyed, Frodo and Samwise, my favorite character, are lying on a big rock with the lava from Mt. Doom flowing around them. They think they are going to die. Sam thinks back to his homeland and the girl he would have liked to marry. Her name is Rosie Cotton and he remembers her dancing with ribbons in her hair. We thought the color of the flower would be the color of a ribbon a girl would wear. We were going to name one Samwise the Brave, but we didn't reserve it and Brian Reeder beat us to it. So instead we named it Bucklebury Ferry, also a reference to the Lords of the Rings. Here is a picture of Rosie Cotton's Ribbons X Red Eyed Queen. The bloom is quite large but not as rosy or toothy as it's mom. It is, however, the maiden bloom, so we'll see how it matures. By the way, Dearest Valentine has scapes, but clumsy me broke off the top of one of them while we were weeding. We redid one of the beds (since Bob was working remotely and had a little time on his hands) but after we replanted it, we neglected to Preen it (except for a couple of rows) so we had to weed it before we could mulch it. Nancy