Can anyone ID it from leaves alone? ... The pot is huge and as you can see, it takes up most of my south facing window ... I have a 'new' rose bush -blue moon (still in its initial stage of growing) in front of it - trying to give it life before it gets planted in my west facing flower bed outside.

I am wondering if I need to do any transplanting... must be close to 10 branches growing out of the soil of this jasmine... are they supposed to be so congested? ... any advice would be greatly appreciated. Would love to know I can expect flowers from it.

And... my cats seem to love snacking on the leaves... I keep having to find other things to put up on the table around it - because I worry if they'll be poisoned.

-Rose

If I had the plant I'd trim the stems back to about a foot or two, pull it out of its pot, shake off the existing soil and trim some of the roots and repot with some fresh potting mix (preferably a fast draining mix). If you don't have access to that I'd use the basic Miracle-Gro mix with added perlite for better drainage.
Into the potting mix I'd add Ironite to keep the leaves dark green and some slow release fertilizer (I prefer Dynamite).
Then I'd water it thoroughly and give it half strength fertilizer and put it outside where it would receive some filtered morning light for a week or two before gradually introducing it to full sun.

Good luck! :)

-Robert

She'd gotten clippings of it, from her sister n law. I'm looking forward to see if it ever flowers. I'll go out this weekend and get some more miracle grow and repot it. I seem to water her quite a lot - more water comes out than stays with her, still. Maybe this is a residual affect of that extended dormancy?

If there's ever flowers, I'll post them. :)

You have many branches growing out of the soil may due to initially they put more than one cuttings to ensure some survive, I saw it is pretty common practice in Asian community propagating Jasimes, unless this plant was planted ( may repotted)deep. When you repot it, you will find out if it is one plant or multiplants in the pot.

J. Sambac like to be pruned. Prune will encourage flower buds form. Since you just nursered it back to health, you might want only prune some longer branches and cross branches off to shape the plant and encourage the bloom.
If you repot it, you may delay the bloom, at this point, you might want wait after it done bloom to repot it. I am in Zone 5, my jasmine sambac is ready to bloom in a week or as soon as the temperature is hot. I think your is ready to bloom if you give it some fertilizer and hair cut (prune). Jasmine sambac loves sun, hot temperature , and oragnic matter in the soil. It is a heavy feeder. In Asian, I saw people just use sewer sluage as fertilizer , boy, it has lushes green leaves and heavenly scented flowers!

Regarding the water, you might want to soke the pot for 5 minutes till the soil is evenly watered. Depends on the temperaruture, you only need to water it as the soil dry, a little more on the dry side does not hurt the plant.

Good luck and enjoy this treasure.

The guys here got it right, its definitely a Sambac jasmine but not sure what cultivar it is. There's two types of jasmines I usually see grown in Cambodian gardens. These are 'Grand Duke of Tuscany' (Maliss Ruot) and 'Maid of Orleans (Maliss Lea). See if you can ask your friend the Cambodian name of this variety and if it matches with the ones I mentioned: Maliss Ruot or Maliss Lea.

By the way, 'Maid of Orleans' is preferred by Cambodians for making jasmine water as the scent of 'Grand Duke of Tuscany' is just too strong and makes the water too perfumey.

Give it lots of heat and as much sun as possible. The first blooms of the season will usually be distorted or smaller than normal.

-Dar

Yes, definitely not full light by that time, but still more than any other room in my house.

I realize I should put it outside - but, the pot weighs about 50 lbs - and bringing water down 3 flights - keeping it indoors definitely would be a whole lot easier.

I'll trim her back to start and find the fertilizer to give her regular feedings. - and see if this kick starts any new growth/or blossoms. I've been happy to see her growing after the state she'd been in when I salvaged her. - Now, I need to address the fact that she can be so much more than just greenery - by trying to make her healthier by getting her some vitamins.

I'll ask my friend about the cambodian name - but she's not a plant lover so I'm doubtful she'll know more than the that "thai Jasmine" designation she told me before.

If you can ask your firend if the flower is sigle petal or double petal that will narrow down the sepcific type. The flower of 'Maid of Orleans" and "Grand Duke of Tuscany' looked very differently. The 'Maid of Orleans" has sigle flower,'Grand Duke of Tuscany' has multi-petals flower ( lots of flower petals, you can google the image to see the differences). Although, double petaled Moli is pretty common in ASian, it could be that too. But find out how many layer of flower petals will help your ID this lucky jasmine plant.

If it's possible? How do I do it? Do I need to soak the branches in a vase? Or use some sort of chemical to encourage roots and just throw them in dirt?

Yes, I'm a newbie to starting new plants - but, I love the learning process if someone has advice to impart - I'd be very grateful.

thanks in advance,
-Rose

Good luck!

-Robert

Here's the picture. Maid of Orleans? :)

To make the flowers last longer, you can pick the buds and let them float in a bowl of water. Select the ones that are at least the size of a pea. They may float on their sides, but will open face up pretty soon. Last time I did it, they lasted for almost a week.

Over the weekend, I noticed my friend had a different type jasmine than I did - so we did an exchange. I battled the huge mass of roots that was my plant, cut a 3rd of it off - and put it in a smaller pot. The rest I put back in the original pot with more soil added.

So, my plant has only about 5 'trunks' where it used to be close to 20. And LO! it's now ready to bloom. I called my friend, and her's is now also beginning to bloom as well.

I'm very happy to report that the new jasmine plant I received in the exchange is REALLY beautiful (and small) only about 7 inches tall. Pictures coming!

What is she?

MOO is stronger - it has a crisp heavyness to it - that hits the back of the nostrils. Quite powerful. The other ... I have never had a strong sense of smell - and when I put my nose up to the blossom and sniff ... it's more of a wafting delicate scent.

Do you have pics of your 'Vietnamese' MM plant? I'd love to see it! :)

So, not Mysore Mulle? ... then what?

I have been on GW for several years, I tend to hover around and read posts on several forums, especially the tropical and fragrant forums :) I just don't find the time to post as much as I used to. I have to figure out an easier way to post pictures (maybe there is and I don't know yet?) directly from my phone, so i can post pictures. Most often, that is what keeps me from posting coz, a picture is certainly worth a thousand words :)

I promise, this weekend I will post pictures of all my jasmines..and we can take guesses at what they are :)

Roseyd, The first plant you posted looks a lot like traditional MM (Indian origin), the second one looks like an oriental version of MM. Since these sambacs all resemble each other, the only way to tell them apart is from scent. I wish there was a way to add that to the posts! I would be in heaven smelling all the flowers that you guys post :)

TT (I know they are taboo here) classifies sambacs into three - MOO (single sambacs), Belle of India (MO, AK and MM) and Grand duke (Tuscany and Supreme). The origin is what makes them different.

Hope this helps.

Mrao77

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I have posted pictures of some of jasmines in another post, hoping to get more active on the fragrant forum :)

mrao77