Hi, Wendy, I don't know where you are in Oz, but I can relate to the dryness. I lived in the Coffs Harbour (mid north coast of NSW) area amongst others for some time. There, with it not raining significantly for over a year, I watered some young gumtrees every few days. They grew well. Incredibly so in some cases. Then a year later, a storm blew a couple of them over. Most of the roots were surface - my regular watering had encouraged that. So I would strongly recommend that you don't water your transplanted frangi "a little every day" but give the ground it's in a major soaking, then mulch (if you haven't already) and leave it for some time. Repeat only with major soakings, but not very often. The growth that you're getting now is of what was there ready to be put out. It needs to re-establish the fine roots, grow some more and "settle in"! Don't worry about it. Give it time and a lot of love! They can cope with a lot. Once I pulled up a cutting, left it sitting against a rock, and it still flowered! Oh that it were so easy here in Cornwall! :-)))

I soaked them in a glass of warm water (but not hot) and left them there for 12 hours before sowing them already. However, warm water turned out to be room-temperature after 1 hour or so, so they spent 1 hour in warm water and 11 hours at the room temperature. Right now the temperature inside the apartment is 73 degrees, and this temperature is just about the same both during the day and during the night. I live in Arlington, TX, which is a town between Dallas and Fort Worth. I am aware that I will have to bring the plant indoor as soon as it gets in the low 50s. But I would prefer to keep the plant indoor permanently!

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Hi Carol! One of my Plumerias made a seed pod this winter....but I think they take months to get ripe. If you still want some, I will definitely let ya know when they are ready. I have the plant labeled WHITE, but I'm not sure if it's my white-with-yellow eye or my yellow-with-white eye. I just didn't pay attention when it bloomed this summer. I'm sure you know to not be too hasty to remove the plants that you think died in the freeze. I made that mistake a couple of years ago when my dark pink one looked like it croaked. I waited and waited in hopes it would come back, but the trunk had split and was oozing. It killed me to dig it out since it was one I had grown from seed while I lived in Chokoloskee and I dragged it to every new place we moved to. As I was hacking away at the roots and had it almost out - it was huge - I discovered that it still had life in the base of its trunk. I'm pretty sure it would have kept on growing from that living part because a neighbor of mine left his in the ground and now, three years later, it is back just as big and full of vigor, even though it sure looked dead. Oh well, I got a cutting and stuck it in the old one's spot and it is going good with almost the same open habit. I loved that my old one grew into a tree that I could walk under the branches without bending my head. I would put my tomato plants under that plumeria and they would scramble up and hang on the branches in the early spring while it had no leaves or flowers yet. I'll be able to do that this year since the new one is big enough. I really love my plummies!