WRF - sending you an email. Ginny

I'd pot them up now. We still have about a month of warm temps here. Once the nights cool down take them inside and keep them on a seed mat. Good luck. Karyn

Maybe some more info would be helpful... Our night temps, all year this year, have been in the mid to lower 50s... with daytime temps ranging from 65-75, I think we might've hit 80 once. I have a re-purposed 1/4 pie shaped cold frame, that's about 3 ft tall in the back. The back of the coldframe has dark landscape fabric on it to make it warmer. It gets upwards of 110f inside on sunny days, even with the vents open. I could shade the front with landscape cloth as well, that'd probably hold 80-90f if I did that. I'm thinking I could lay a thick layer of landscape fabric on the ground, and shade the front with more, and start my plumeria cuttings in there, this year, but I'm not sure if I SHOULD start them growing this year. It seems iffy to me to keep them as they are, until next May... or June even... This year's spring was loooooooong and cool, and kinda odd at that, same with last year. Generally spring starts in March and goes through late May, then it heats up, and we get almost no rain at all until October. As of right now, Aug 2, it hasn't rained a drop in over a month. As for feeding any cuttings, I make my own compost, from kitchen scraps and yard scraps and dried fall leaves. I can make compost tea for the plumies, or just use the compost, I have no fear it's not well draining, as I see to it that my plants get the soil they need, regardless of what they are. As for winter, I bring potted plants inside, and most of them get east window / florescent light treatment, and watering only when the soil is dry. SO, how does all this sound, what do I need to do with these new plumeria cuttings right now? Should I wait, should I plant? I'm so excited, I can't believe I got ten cuttings :D I have hundreds and hundreds of pics of my garden, from its start until today, how best to share them here if I want to?

Sorry it too so long to reply. What a crazy weekend! elucas, oh yes, and there will be more added, I'm sure! I've been talking to a friend of mine who lives down there and we might do a swap when mine get big enough to have cuttings. SHhhhh, the soil wasn't moist, just fresh out of the bag so it wasn't dried out in the sun yet making it lighter. I don't water them until they show signs of life either :) I'll have to try the water bottles next time. The big one did well just sticking it in the soil and we'll see how the newbies go!