the Expert
This section was created at the suggestion of some of you who contact me for suggestions on issues Plumeria their love. then placed your questions here and if you want to attach (better) the pictures of the plant for which you ask for help to send them my address blog@plumeriashop.it The various issues will certainly help to other "sick" of plumeria! Hello Ezio,
Thanks for the blog, there are so many interesting things and you're always so kind to everyone and precious with your responses. Saturday
Now that you have written (and a couple of weeks before) through the phone and receiving your advice, I decided to send a couple of pictures for more details. After all it is a Plumeria that 15 years, my first, which comes directly from Polynesia where I fell in love with these wonderful plants. And cut it scares me!
But from the beginning.
The plant now looks like this, see the branch that was cut right where it had rot, but to be safe I should probably cut at least from where I marked with the letter "A". The top is not very good. He must have suffered a lot for this odd winter though she had been admitted where it has always been.
(photo A)
My initial idea was to make a cutting with the left branch (which is fine) and leave what remains in the pot hoping that sprouts properly. Perhaps by cutting the branch of the left could have a plant with a more balanced, but if you do not root well and any inconvenience it happens, I might have to give up not only the flowers that has always done, but maybe in the whole plant. And this makes me worry: there are very affectionate!
Then my mom got an idea that you submit to it.
The idea is to cut the branch right below the A, or at least until I see that everything is healthy and make a cutting, and rooted in pots and leave the left side, again as in the picture B (to follow) in a new pot and with a brace to support it.
(photo B)
What do you say now that you know well for the case? What do I do?
I left branch of the cuttings and hope in a fantastic plant with beautiful form if all goes well and I keep a plant with the trunk to the "L" but already established and in vegetative growth (which probably makes me the flowers again this' year) and then perhaps by cutting the branch on the right will get another with risks connected but for sure unless the plant 15 years?
I have dealt with the whole plant, however Previcur in a solution of 1 ml in one liter of water, hoping to have well proportioned.
I trust you, and thank you in advance for the advice you'll want to give me. If you say "cut", I cut! You know
Sooner or later I will come in Sicily for envy as I could for the beautiful Plumeria you have at the nursery!
Thanks!
Matthew (Bill) from Bologna.
Answer The mothers are always right. The most sensible thing to do is to completely cut the branch of the cuttings now and make one-handed cut where and how I scored. Clean up the rotten stumps marked ax flare plant, shelling bread ground without damaging the roots and put it straight in the same pot with new soil. Just put a brace to secure it vertically and it will seem new.
If you want you can replace the jar with a little wider but no deeper.
careful, however, to mark the side branch of the cuttings to be planted, because then a mistake and end up upside down .... and clearly not rooted!
portions woody, before bringing them to dry, do all of the longitudinal incisions around the base, 5cm long, with a new cutter.
This will increase the ability of the roots of the old.
I attach some photos explanatory:
| Developments The plant repotted and pruned as per your advice and one of the two that we were able to make the branch cut. For good luck the cuttings are potted in pots of your nursery! Hello and thank Matthew |