Kind of reminds me of Charlotte Ebert

We'll see more when it fully opens and I can get my nose to it.

looks great! This is definitely pretty and looking more like Plumeria rubra Kathy Ramsey.

Wow Ken - 21 months from planting to bloom. Kudos!


I do now have something to look forward to for my 50 + seeds. Plan to start in December and stagger over a few months. In my basement with heat mat, controlled light & humidity.

Mother Nature, David, not me. I must admit, I am one happy camper.

Fantastic Ken

Sometimes it is better to be lucky than good.

The flower is just about fully open, but it was so hard to capture because the plant is a bit over 5' tall and I could not get over the flowers until I climbed up on a ladder. The sun washes some color out, so I will take (hopefully) better pictures later this afternoon when the sun gets low in the sky. I tried to smell the flower but it was windy plus my "sniffer" is not the greatest. I thought I got something but the fragrance (if any) was not strong enough to put a label on it. I will have Kathy go out with me later. She has a better nose.

Madame Gallibert was next door so I shot a picture of her flowers. She has been in constant bloom for 2 1/2 months and her flowers are the longest lasting of any flowers I have had. Her flowers are about twice the size of the typical Celadine. She has a wonderful fragrance. She has now branched with three tips and those tips are almost 2' long. She is going to make a wonderful plant, perhaps a candidate for my solarium.

Congratulations on your seedling, Ken!

Wow - that IS lovely Ken. And I understand that you did not label it?

Sun is down enough that the seedling is in the shade. I think these two pictures are better. It looks like one side of each petal will be curled and as you can now see, there is an orange center. My Kathy and I both said the fragrance is floral, but not rose or gardenia floral. That's as close as we could come.

Thank you, David. What do you mean about not labeling it?

Congratilation that is one very pretty seedling bloom.

drdawg said:Thank you, David. What do you mean about not labeling it?

You indicated that you were not sure which one it was - parentage, etc. I put little plastic "labels" in my seeds and put important info (name, date, cross info and so on) on it.

In a perfect (plant) world that would be great. All my seeds are donated seeds. In 30 years of growing them, I have never had a plumeria produce a seed pod. Even then, since I have dozens of varieties of plumeria, and they are all outside, mixed together, knowing which pollen was the "guilty" one is simply a matter of conjecture. I don't think there is a single one of us with laboratory growing conditions, and thus, the ability to know exact crosses. Perhaps I am wrong in my suspicion.

Ken - I was sorta kidding and giving you a hard time. :-)
If a plant label only says Seed from DrDawg 5/2/15 so be it.

I'm with you David, I labeled some seeds I planted using the seedpod parent name based on what I purchased from BBB.

But when I transferred into bigger pots not all got labeled properly So I might have to wait for their bloom to see which is the seedpod parent...I still have my list of the seeds I bought. The pollen parent, is anybody's guess.

Is there such a thing as a pollen bank?

Right Gigi. This summer I planted the same species of Milkweed from 6 vendors. My plant label said simply.

A. (for Asclepias) curasivica
Vendor name
Date

3 did not germinate. So in the future, I may shy away from the vendors whose seed did not germinate.

I usually also keep a log book/journal.

Sorry - getting far afield of this thread. I stop now.