2018 Plumeria Pollination Projects

Planning for late 2018 and 2019 plumeria seeds

Work in Progress…..

Every year, I have to start thinking about the next year’s supply of seeds. Determining which plumeria I want to get seed pods from and should I manually self-pollinate or cross-pollinate. This year, Irma gave us a chance to rearrange most of our plumeria beds. So what I decided to do is put plumeria I want to pollinate or cross-pollinate in the same beds or at least close to each other. These are the plumeria I feel will help produce offspring with the traits I’m hoping for.

The first bed has the following Plumeria, I will manually cross-pollinate different combinations over the 2018 growing season.

Bed Number SE-01 contains 6 plants:

  • Camelot – Penang Peach seedling, great color, great bloomer, compact grower, sets seeds
  • George Brown – Penang Peach seedling, unusual color, great bloomer, compact grower. rarely sets seeds
  • Super Round – believed to be a Penang Peach seedling, great color, compact grower, sets seeds
  • Penang Peach – produces some great offspring. Good color, compact grower, sets seeds
  • Desert Sunrise – Chameleon. Compact grower. Sweet Scent, sets seeds
  • Bangkok Fire – Good Color, medium compact, ?sets seeds?

Bed Number SE-03

Bed Number SE-03

Bed Number FSB-01 contains 8 plants: I’m going to change some of these out.

  • Heirloom – a seedling of Summer Spice, compact grower, unusual color, sets seeds but rare.
  • Gina – semi compact grower, good color, good bloomer, sets seeds
  • Siam Ruby – a compact grower, good color, good bloomer, sets seeds
  • Thornton’s Lemon Drop – compact grower, good color, great bloomer, sets seeds
  • Dwarf Orange – Great color, compact grower, 
  • Raspberry Sundae – Great color, medium grower, good bloomer, sets seeds
  • Fireblast – Great color, medium grower, good bloomer,  sets seeds.
  • Queen Amber – Great color, medium grower, good bloomer 

Bed Number 

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1-18-2018 Updates – Seed and Seedling Projects

Jan 15, 2018

2018 Seed Project preparation started today. I checked to be sure I have everything I need for my projects.

Gathering Supplies Needed:

January 17, 2018

This year will be using 2017 as a baseline. 

Merlin’s Potion from Florida Colors Nursery, not yet on the market. If 2018 experiments go well we will bring to market, but it largely depends on results from the final tests. Merlin’s Potion is an all organic product designed to boost plant health, growth and most important blooming. I developed it mainly for seedlings. I will post more about it later. 

January 18, 2018

Seed inventory and selection is next….see Plumeria Seed Selection

Unfortunately, seed selection depends on what you can get or what you have.

Here is the list, 

  • Gina,
  • Hope,
  • Heirloom,
  • Jackie,
  • Metallica,
  • Jack’s Purple, 
  • Dwarf Singapore Pink,
  • Mardi Gras,
  • Aztec Gold,
  • Waimea,
  • Bonnie Fox
  • ….so far!

January 23, 2018

Notes: The 2018 project will be divided into 6 phases:

PHASE I

Seed Selection

PHASE II

Soaking and testing seed viability.

PHASE III

Germinating Seeds

PHASE IV

Growing Seedlings to transplants size

PHASE V

Growing seedlings to the next transplant stage

PHASE VI

Growing seedlings to bloom

Depending on the weather, I’m planning on starting PHASE II, seeds soaking on Feb 1, 2018.

 

1-18-2018 Updates – Seed and Seedling Projects