A pleasant surprise!

10 years ago

Most of my trees that I did not put in my basment are in a dark bedroom. I have my Dwarf Singapore Pink sitting in front of a window but the window is covered so barely any light gets in. I only keep it covered because I hate the sunlight first thing in the morning. Anyhow, my DSP held onto most of its leaves for months but around December, they were covered with Spider mites. Shorgly after making the discovery, the leaves turned black and dropped.

Around mid January all the leaves had grown back. I was speechless because the tree was in it's dormancy cycle and as I mentioned above, it wasn't getting enough light(or so I thought) to grow leaves! About a week or so ago I had moved it into the bath tub and I gave it a nice shower. I let it sit under the running water for about 15 minutes. I thought it would be good to leech the soil of any built ups salts from ferts, and I also wanted to wash off any Spider mites that were attacking the new leaves.

So after it dried enough for me to move it again, I decided to give it a quick look over. My DSP is really valuable to me. Not because it's a rare or hard to find variety, and it certainly isn't hard to grow, but it is highly valuable to me because it was the first plumeria I bought when I decided to give plumeria growing a second try. I have had this tree now for at least five years and I have to say. I don't see anything dwarf about it! My tree has over 25 tips. On it and is over 3ft wide and almost 3ft tall!

Now what really shocked me was I found 2 newly formed inflos!!! The buds themselves are beginning to develop! So, I will start feeding it an giving it as much light as possible! In another few weeks, I will have yet another plumeria blooming indoors :)

Andrew

Comments (5)

DirtandYarn
10 years ago
Congratulations! Will you post a picture of the blooms?
elucas101
10 years ago
Very cool!!! I'm glad you will have some indoor blooms, what a treat! And good job getting the upper hand on those spider mites!
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Loveplants2 8b Virginia Beach, Virginia
10 years ago
Sounds great!!

That DSP sounds huge! Twenty five tips! WHOO HOO! I don't think I have any tree with that many!! Great job!!

It is always fun to find new Inflos or growth on your trees!!

Stay warm!!

Laura
rox146
10 years ago
Lucky YOU! roxanne
Andrew Scott
Original Author
10 years ago
I am the worst when it comes to post in pictures but if I remember I will.

Hi Laura! I just actually counted the tips and I counted 34! The nice thing about this species is that after the inflo develops, on average I usually get at least 6 tips! Now do you see why I find it hard to believe that this species is a dwarf? I believe it was Logees greenhouse's website that said this plumeria only grows 6 inches a year!! I beg to differ!

When I bought this plumeria around 5 years ago Laura, it came in a 6 inch pot and it was barely 10 inches high. I purchased mine through Stokes Tropicals only when it went on sale and was marked down to 50% off and then it went on sale again as part of there Black Friday sale. They wanted $50 for it and I ended up paying around $20. When I got it, it was a few weeks before Christmas and all I had thencfor lighting was shop lights. It still produced 2 inflos even under those poor light conditions.

The only con to this variety that I know of is that it is hard to root. Other than that, I will always recommend this variety to all plumeria growers. The flowers themselves are not the showiest and the fragrance isn't real strong but DSP will always be one of my all time favorite varieties for ease of growth, flower production(can you imagine seeing 30 in los on a tree this small!?) and for it being evergreen.

Andrew