They are known as water sprouts; usually with larger than normal leaves and maybe larger thorns; they are often a sign that you are being overly kind with food. As you can see from the photo, the CLM has attacked this branch most because it is the sweetest, tenderest growth. Just prune it back to the level of the general canopy and it will revert to normal growth. BTW, I think this was answered on the CLM thread.

Hi Christin! I for one look forward to the changing season. It gets too hot and humid here and stays there too long. And I work in a very hot plastics plant. I am really enjoying the sight of my first apples on my three year old espalier. Even if they turn out to be inedidble they are pretty. The previous owners left us a full size crab apple. I just wish it bore red fruit instead of yellow. I like fruit to contrast the green foliage. We have bright red fruit clusters on the sweet bay magnolia. LOL I had to remove an unidentified weed I let grow this summer. It had beautiful foliage, grew tall and symetrical, filled a void in our privacy screen, and had little flowers that would bear little berries for the little birds. I have two little granddaughters here. The plant turned out to be pokeweed :o ! I was suprised how quickly our young Hollies have filled up with red berries that last the winter. We have been here less than 5 years. Our pumpkins (if they bear up) and volunteer squash will adorn the garden until Thanksgiving, for which we will be grateful. We will leave at least a few Mammoth sunflowers up for the birds and to border the neighbors bare cornfield. Off topic but The vegetable garden will do whatever it wants once the last of the harvest is in. Once we get frozen ground I will turn it over with compost. Also our Oak, River Birch and Dogwood, have grown wonderfully over the past year, so I look forward to the fall foliage. At least please Lord, get us back into the low seventies. Thanks for helping me to think about more comfortable times. Duane

It's not true that only lemons will root. I have many cuttings that I just potted out of pummelo, grapefruit, mandarins, limes, sweet oranges, calamondin, and Buddha's Hand. I did a tray of 39 and only lost 6 and that was due to the poor condition of the stock that the cuttings were taken from. All citrus root fairly easy. The problem is that some don't like to grow on rooted cuttings for a length of time. The ones that don't do as well on rooted cuttings, I root them anyway and use them for budwood to graft later on when they reach a good size. I use a recycled nursery tray. Fill it will a good potting soil with perlite in it. Make sure the media is wet but not soggy. Prepare your cuttings by taking at least 4 nodes. Strip two leaves off and cut the other two in half. Dip in a good rooting hormone and using a pencil, poke a hole in the media to receive the cutting. Do not push the cutting all the way to the bottom of the cup. Insert the cutting and firm the soil around the base. Finish all your cuttings the same way. Put some stakes in each corner of the tray. (I use two U-shaped bamboo stakes) and then slip a large clear garbage bag over the tray and tie it closed. Place near a warm bright window (or greenhouse if you have one) and try not to open it for about 4 weeks. I open mine about the fifth week. Give a tiny tug on a couple of cuttings. If there is any resistance, they are rooted. Now is the time to pot them out. If not rooted, give them about two more weeks.

Btw I'm jesse I'm very new to the plumeria forum as I have only been growing plumerias for about a year & 1/2 but I managed to get 8 plumies already and I want more as I'm addicted to them :). I mean who isn't after their first one?! I'm from Orange CA born and raised but currently live in riverside CA. Btw I would of never thought to root plumeria in water! I thought it would rott. I'm definitely going to try it when I get a cutting. When I bought some plumerias I was given 4 cutting that had a lot of green on them not that mature. I got them to root but it took forever. I put them in water to plump up because they were really soft by the time I got home (they were already kinda soft when I received them. They were free so I took them) and then I put rooting hormone on them the next day and mixed miracle grow soil with perlite and put them in 1 gallon pots with black stones ontop of the soil and watered good and put in direct sun and I did mist the cuttings so they wouldn't go soft again. I did water the soil every few days because in direct sun the soil dried out pretty quick. They did root I recently gave 2 away and I kept 2 I dont remember what Variety they are all I know they were some sort of pink. They bloomed but don't even remember how they look like I was on vacation when they started. now they have 3 branches on them. I feel that I did a good job for my first time at rooting plumeria cuttings. Now that I remember I also rooted another cutting along with those 4. It's a cutting that is very special to me know that was gifted to me by my Uncle when he saw I had just got into plumerias he already had 2 but he had bought some cuttings and he gave me one. When he gave me the cutting it had flowers on it and it was a Y the blooms I kind of remember were 2 or possibly 3 dark colors I remember I liked it a lot. When I first tried to root it I failed and it rotted so then had to save it and cut off and just kept 1 cutting that eventually rooted and now has formed another Y but haven't seen it bloom again. It's very special to me because my uncle has Gone to heaven this past December and he left me my last great gift that I will treasure. Anyways But I will definitely next time try the water rooting. Thanks for the info and I will look forwards in learning much more from you!