Last year, after my plumeria bloomed, I noticed this strange outgrowth on the branch where the flowers had been. It looked like picture #1.
Plumeria seed pod #1 from PinterestIt was long, bifurcated, and purple-brown. I had no idea what it was but I watched it. Over the next year, it got darker and leathery. I finally decided it was a seed pod and looked it up. It would take 8-10 months to mature. So I left it alone.
Sometime in the last few months, it split open. The seeds inside looked like picture #2. They were little bits of seed material on a thin member wing. There were a lot of them packed in there. They would have fallen from the tree in nature and spun like little helicopters, dispersing far and wide on the wind. But here, they all fell into the big tub the mother plant in and they and the pod parts
seeds #2 from Pinterestdisappeared into the soil.
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little baby plumeria #3 from Garden Know HowJust last month, I noticed a little seedling popping up in that tub. I figured it was probably some weed but let it grow a little. When the second set of leaves came in, I realized it might be a plumeria. It looked like picture #3. I was excited to see pictures online that confirmed it was.
Now it has another set of leaves. The info online said seeds were much better than cuttings for growing new plumerias but that it takes a lot of patience. That is true.
I have lots of hope for this little guy. I hope it grows up to be as pretty and full of flowers as its mother. The mother plant almost always has at least leaves all year and grows like a monster. I got it as a cutting from the neighbor, left it in a bag-forgotten- for over a year, and just jammed it into about 3inches of soil in the tub it is in on my way to the green waste bucket because it looked dead. Lo and behold, it lives and reproduces!