How Do You Plant Plumeria Seeds?
The Plumeria plant is a tropical flowering tree, and the flowers are used to make floral leis in the Hawaiian Islands. The plant can be grown from seed, but it takes three to five years before you will see any blooms on the tree. The best time to plant the seed is in the spring. Growing the plant from seed is the only way that one can achieve new cultivars or new color varieties. The seeds are long and brown, and look like elongated dried leaves. Plumeria seeds like tropical heat, so you need to keep them warm if you are growing them outside the tropics. The seeds are easy to germinate and require little care. Soak the seeds between two wet terrycloth towels, allowing the seeds to soak up the water and plump up for 24 hours. Discard any seeds that do not absorb water. Fill 4-inch pots with soil-less potting mix within 1 inch of the top. Soil-less potting mixes are usually a base of peat blended with perlite and are sterile so they will not introduce diseases to the seeds. Poke a hole w
