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Plumeria done blooming, does one dead head?

6 years ago

The gorgeous Plumeria I got from Toshi has finished blooming on one branch, still got buds and flowers on the other. So does one do anything to the spent ends of the flowers? Trim the branch back or cut off the tips? No idea!

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Loveplants2 8b Virginia Beach, Virginia

6 years ago

Once the flowers fall off and are laying on leaves etc, I will remove those spent flowers. I allow them to stay on the stem until they decide to shed themselves. You might have Seedpods forming and if you remove the blooms to early, you might interrupt Mother Nature . Once the blooms are all finished on the inflo, I still let the stem stay. Sometimes new blooms will emerge when you think it's finished. Again, Mother Nature will take care of the stem once it's finished it purpose and it will usually dry up and fall off naturally. You can ( if you feel that it's getting soft and are worried ) cut it and leave a few inches from the v or near the stem. My inflos can blooms all season and then surprise me when I thought they were finished. Just relax and enjoy the show!

Laura

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Andre Plumeria Newbie (NorCal - Bay Area/9B)
6 years ago
KC, give the plant to your friend. Just kidding. My first thought is to let nature do its thing and leave it alone. But curious to find out what experts on hear say. My seedlings are sprouting. Yeah! I just may discover a novel way for me at least to heat up my seeds/seedlings/cuttings naturally for fast root growth. I will share with you after my experiment if I have not cooked my seedlings and cuttings yet :). I bought a heating pad but with no thermometer for regulating heat I am worried about overheating seeds/cuttings and/or my house. Our weather is too cool at night to keep that heat going so going back and forth outside/inside as I do not have an inside heat/grow/light setup yet. Plus, really want to give them tropical humid simulation but no green house yet. So been wrapping my seedling tray (aluminum tray with growing media) with opaque grocery bags. I know I am going cheap but wanted to reuse what I have around the house first before buying sprouting tray etc. My damped paper towels seems to be working well sprouting at least. So far I could not see my seedlings in the seed tray sprouting yet. I am experiment with different grow media. So maybe combination of grow media, heat, and moisture that is preventing them from seeding. I will give them a few more days before putting them into damped paper towel method. I really like the damped paper towel method best as 9-10 seeds already sprouted and I planted some in grow media and can see one of them show leaf! Yeah! Will post photo soon.
kcandmilo
Original Author
6 years ago
Nice try, Andre, grow your own. :)

Will wait for the more experienced growers to chip in!

KC
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kcandmilo
Original Author
6 years ago
Perfect, thanks, Laura! That was such a clear explanation too!
Loveplants2 8b Virginia Beach, Virginia
6 years ago
Anytime..
PRO
the_first_kms2
6 years ago
I also like to clean up the fallen flowers and keep the branch tips clean. I rarely attempt to remove spent inflos as they generally fall off on their own. If they are not falling off I then over a period of time flex the spent inflo until it starts to separate.
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