Tuesday, August 13, 2013

The Seedlings Arrived!!!

I received 5 seedlings today. Thanks Ranaye! She has a ton of different varieties of Plumeria's and one of her tree's had a seed pod on it this year. I was lucky enough to get some of the seedlings.

I've never grown Plumeria's from seedlings, so this should be an interesting journey. I have grown some from cuttings, but that's easy, right? I had four gorgeous trees. When I moved to Oregon, I cut them all up and distributed them among my friends. I brought my favorite one with me, which surprisingly, I purchased from Costco.

Since I didn't have any pots or soil, I decided to try the terry cloth method as seen here:



Basically you keep them wet for 24 hours until they're nice and plump, then you put them in soil. Then I read about the styrofoam peanut floating method. Decided to give that a try too. Below is 4 of them floating. I left one in the towel because I think it's "broken". The shell seemed to have come off before I did anything with it. 





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