I just bag rooted a couple callused cuttings with your video. Ive never been so excited to forget about something lol. It’s on my covered lanai here in Central Florida. Thank you for such a helpful video. Hopefully I’ll have a great update in a few weeks!
That makes me so happy! I’m glad I can help, I hope they’re successful for you! I only lost about 10 of these that I did, which isn’t too bad. It’s almost impossible to have a 💯 success rate. Even the pros that I know lose a few if there’s. But practice makes perfect! Keep on keeping on, self experience is the best educator.
I just checked on them today and they have quite a bit of roots already! I was expecting it to take longer. Thanks again for this method! I’ll use it for the other cuttings I’m getting and hope they root just as easily!
Great info, I’m new to plumerias. I learned a lot. Only advice is to maybe edit each step so it’s not so drawn out. Lengthy. Not a complaint- just advice. Thanks again, Cheers.
Yeah I may this way before I knew how to do UA-cam videos but I’ve learned a lot since then, I’m surprised how many views this got but it shows that the averages watch length is only about 5 minutes so now I only make 5-6 minute videos.
Entertaining video but I think people think the more tricks or steps the more success. i lived in hawaii over 50 years and now am in Florida. I have lost only 1 tree in all these years. I have currently over 300. I also grow from the seed and have many unusual colors and shapes, also aroma. The seedlings is where you get the surprise colors and smells. Half or more of the time the plant that grows from seed looks nothing like the mother the seed pod was from. I usually get blossoms from seedlings the 2nd or 3rd year, but some people wait 4 to 6 years. I never saw wrapping the branch in plastic wrap to get it to callous. I lay mine in the carport or under a shady tree for a week or less and they are good to go. My brother would plant his cuttings wet straight from the tree into the ground and had about a 97% success rate. He never took time to dry them. The only reason for the callous is to lessen the chance of rot if you put a fresh cut branch into moist soil, so once the bottom is dry it's good. Also i don't do any special treatment to get them rooted. I take a plastic tub or even the plastic boxes you can buy anywhere, (cheapest is flea market), or even a bucket, and put about 3 inches of any soil or sand handy, and just stick them in as many as it will hold. You just need to be sure the bottom is in contact with the soil, and that you keep the soil moist, not wet. Within a couple weeks they always have roots. i just keep the pinks with the pinks , white with white, and yellow with yellow, so if I sell the customer knows what he is getting. The seedlings when about 3 inches high are put in small pots with no special soil. It has all worked for me, in fact if I have no tub or plastic box handy, i just lean against any tree or wall of house with only about an inch deep soil covering the bottom. Often i just stand somewhere in the garden temporarily without burying the bottom, and when i go back in a couple weeks usually they have roots good to pot or place in yard. Also if someone cuts down their plumeria you can take take all the pieces and start them. Take even the biggest pieces like the trunk. They will root with tons of branches.. Sometimes people complicate things.
That was very informative! I also live in Florida and pretty much anything I stick in the ground tends to root and do well for me. How did you come from a long line of people with green thumb :-) on thanks for sharing all your experience and information with us!
@@SeraphimCherubim Just putting in a big tub (with drain holes for when it rains hard) and few inches of soil, maybe throw in some tree leaves to hold the moisture in and keep soil little cooler since they have no roots. I like big plastic tubs that can hold a lot. You can tell when rooting has started when you see small leaves developing, or a slight tug and there is some resistance. Partial shade is good too, until you remove and pot or put in yard, and then all the sun possible. I have one tree near a yard lite on a post, and the side near the light never loses leaves in winter, but the back side does. Also move your pots to the south side of house in winter to catch every second of sunlight. I do not use chemicals on tree, and only throw kitchen cuttings, leaves, etc around the base.
If you live in an area where a plumeria cutting can cost $20 to hundreds of dollars, you don't want to just stick it in the soil and let it be. I failed a couple of times and can't afford your simple "method". People complicate thing when they need to 😂
Is your medium pre moistened & that's why you use so lil water from the spray bottle! I'm so nervous at the moment I just bag rooted 25 and I put alot more water in my bags than you did im so worried! I was also worried at the fact that my medium was so much soil on the bottom and all the perlite on top! I used cactus soil so hopefully that will be more ok that I used more water than you did, & possibly that i live in palm springs area in Southern California! im truly so worried at the moment I have struggled like crazy with this plant as well praying for success at the moment so if you respond to me that would be truly so amazing of you but if you can't or don't notice this message I totally understand especially with having kids and life in general but if you do thank you so much in advance!! Your video is amazing and if my bagged one's don't make it I will try your way next but if you think this will be bad and get back to me then I will start over completely I just finished my bag rooting cuttings today 4-28-2021
Where do you place them after you bagged those and in what temperature; shaded area or sunshades? Did you callus in saran wrap after you cut off from the tree or they came like that when you purchased? Do open to check sometimes or leave until you see the roots? I am curious. They're looking great.
Sorry I took so long to replay, I keep them on a heat mat in the winter, usually. This winter though I decided to test them and leave them out doors. It dropped to about 35° here and most of them still developed roots. I just transplanted a bunching into 5 gallon buckets. I have a callusing video as well on my Plumeria Area playlist. Hope this helps, apologies for the waaaaaaaaay late response.
I’m getting ready to root a few cuttings I took from our tree that’s been growing indoors for 10years here in idaho. Im super excited to get these rooted. Is your rooting medium dry dry or pre moistened? Will this method work on for my cuttings that I have been letting callus without the plastic wrap method. Just air drying it? Thank you.
Yes, they stay on it most of the rooting stage unless it’s warm enough outside. If you feel they are being dry you can put them in some water for a few hours. The holes in the bag will allow water to seep in. Don’t get too much water, maybe like 5-10 minutes then out.
Soooo glad I found this video. Just bought couple of cuttings and I planted it already (2 weeks) can I take it out and do this? Also, where do you leave this while waiting to root? It’s about 75-100 degrees where I’m at :)
I’m in the SoCal area, that’s perfect weather where you are! I would just leave them where they’re at. Plumerias are amazing and will do well if you cut and plant. This process is just to ensure rooting. If you don’t see any new growth on your freshly planted cuttings in a few weeks, I would go ahead and pull them and try the method I’m doing. Thanks you hope your plants thrive!! 🤙🌸🌺🌼🙏
Hey Mr. Savage. mahalo. I've tried the plastic wrap but noticed on your video that the center layer is white as the part that swells, however a few cuttings I have purchased looked ok when I wrapped them but now have changed color (the center). Is this normal? It's only been 5 days and I don't see any change except for the discoloration. I have been trying to grow plumerias for 40 years and fail every year. I pot them up for others and their's grows. So I have tried 40 different ways and can't keep them past one year. I am obsessed to be successful. So what should I do?
@@SeraphimCherubim Thanks for your reply. The part that's dark is still hard. Should I cut off and start again? And also of course I found another plumeria stick I planted last year but it got accidentally covered w/bags of chicken manuer. I found it yesterday and its perfectly fine but never rooted last summer. Should I stick it back in the potting soil or recut? I can't seem to ever win w/this plant.
I suppose it depends on what it's doing. If the cutting is really rotting cut the rot off. If it's just discoloration put it in the dirt and let it root. The key with plumeria is to think of them as succulents. They like Heat and they don't like a whole lot of water. My best success has been putting cuttings in pots of sand and forgetting about them. I have seedlings now about 3 inches tall. I am trying the bag method now on some cuttings I got from Hawaii. I think success also has to do with the timing. Ex. If the mother tree is active... then the cuttings are more likely to take. I hope this helps.
@@SeraphimCherubim Thx again for your comments. Funny you should mention succulents. That is one of my many tries. I put a succulent cutting on top of the plumeria pot and it grew but not the Plumeria. Go figure that one. Last year I planted seeds and ended up with 22 seedlings but for lack of knowledge lost all but 3. Discouraged I put them out on my garden sink and every time I turned water on they got a splash. I didn't care if I lost the only 3 I had left and to my surprise they started to grow. I thought for sure they were being overwatered. I just repotted them yesterday thinking the roots might be too fragile but they had some decent roots. They now look like pencils growing year #2. Also read or saw on video somewhere that they like to be moist but not wet. An "ah ha" for me. Something new and different for try #41. My daughter says they like water and I've watched her drown hers and it grows to this day. Maybe because she lives high up in the mountains and her plant is in a spot where clothes dryer vent blows hot air on it. I will never stop trying. I also found a potted plumeria that I planted last year that got covered with bags of chicken manuer and when I discovered it, it had been pushed to side of pot and when I pulled it out it had never rooted. It's still green and plump. Should I cut off and let dry out again or just stick back in a pot of soil. Thx for your time.
Since its calloused off I would just stick it in the ground. I live in Florida so my techniques are probably different. It's hot here. Plumeria is native to Mexico so I would say they probably love that climate the best.
Good video. So you don't really need any water except the spritz to promote rooting? Wow. This saves alot of space seems cool and manage temps. Thanks.
You’re welcome. It’s best to just cut and dry for a few minutes/couple hours at most. Lots of different ways to get a plumeria cutting to root but this and gang rooting in perlite seem to be the most effective.
Mr Savage - or anyone - is there a limit to how 'large' a cutting can be, to get rooted and then planted (in the ground). I am in Southern CAL. I was given about 6 -8 big cuttings, practically full/medium branches from a 12' tall really old and beautiful plumeria tree. My cuttings are each about 3-5 feet long, and each has about 2-5 mini-branches of their own that are each about 1-2 feet (the mini branches). Can I root, and then plant, the whole 4-foot tall branch cutting (heavily staked so it does not fall down).
I "liked" the video and each person has their own way of rooting these things, but you don't use rooting hormone? I thought that was rather important. Almost as important as hormones are to a professional body builder! No, only kidding, ha ha.
Way too much distractions kids in the background could not hear you very well start to watch another video that you made and was disappointing you cannot hear you
i was wondering too. was there really kids playing in the background? i would be like stfu! im making a vid. orrr did he have kids playing in the background in an audio track with tropical music just for the vid??
I just bag rooted a couple callused cuttings with your video. Ive never been so excited to forget about something lol. It’s on my covered lanai here in Central Florida. Thank you for such a helpful video. Hopefully I’ll have a great update in a few weeks!
That makes me so happy! I’m glad I can help, I hope they’re successful for you! I only lost about 10 of these that I did, which isn’t too bad. It’s almost impossible to have a 💯 success rate. Even the pros that I know lose a few if there’s. But practice makes perfect! Keep on keeping on, self experience is the best educator.
I just checked on them today and they have quite a bit of roots already! I was expecting it to take longer. Thanks again for this method! I’ll use it for the other cuttings I’m getting and hope they root just as easily!
I like the idea for the bags you used!
Great info, I’m new to plumerias. I learned a lot. Only advice is to maybe edit each step so it’s not so drawn out. Lengthy. Not a complaint- just advice. Thanks again, Cheers.
Yeah I may this way before I knew how to do UA-cam videos but I’ve learned a lot since then, I’m surprised how many views this got but it shows that the averages watch length is only about 5 minutes so now I only make 5-6 minute videos.
Entertaining video but I think people think the more tricks or steps the more success. i lived in hawaii over 50 years and now am in Florida. I have lost only 1 tree in all these years. I have currently over 300. I also grow from the seed and have many unusual colors and shapes, also aroma. The seedlings is where you get the surprise colors and smells. Half or more of the time the plant that grows from seed looks nothing like the mother the seed pod was from. I usually get blossoms from seedlings the 2nd or 3rd year, but some people wait 4 to 6 years. I never saw wrapping the branch in plastic wrap to get it to callous. I lay mine in the carport or under a shady tree for a week or less and they are good to go. My brother would plant his cuttings wet straight from the tree into the ground and had about a 97% success rate. He never took time to dry them. The only reason for the callous is to lessen the chance of rot if you put a fresh cut branch into moist soil, so once the bottom is dry it's good. Also i don't do any special treatment to get them rooted. I take a plastic tub or even the plastic boxes you can buy anywhere, (cheapest is flea market), or even a bucket, and put about 3 inches of any soil or sand handy, and just stick them in as many as it will hold. You just need to be sure the bottom is in contact with the soil, and that you keep the soil moist, not wet. Within a couple weeks they always have roots. i just keep the pinks with the pinks , white with white, and yellow with yellow, so if I sell the customer knows what he is getting. The seedlings when about 3 inches high are put in small pots with no special soil. It has all worked for me, in fact if I have no tub or plastic box handy, i just lean against any tree or wall of house with only about an inch deep soil covering the bottom. Often i just stand somewhere in the garden temporarily without burying the bottom, and when i go back in a couple weeks usually they have roots good to pot or place in yard. Also if someone cuts down their plumeria you can take take all the pieces and start them. Take even the biggest pieces like the trunk. They will root with tons of branches.. Sometimes people complicate things.
So, which one is your favorite?
That was very informative! I also live in Florida and pretty much anything I stick in the ground tends to root and do well for me. How did you come from a long line of people with green thumb :-) on thanks for sharing all your experience and information with us!
@@SeraphimCherubim Just putting in a big tub (with drain holes for when it rains hard) and few inches of soil, maybe throw in some tree leaves to hold the moisture in and keep soil little cooler since they have no roots. I like big plastic tubs that can hold a lot. You can tell when rooting has started when you see small leaves developing, or a slight tug and there is some resistance. Partial shade is good too, until you remove and pot or put in yard, and then all the sun possible. I have one tree near a yard lite on a post, and the side near the light never loses leaves in winter, but the back side does. Also move your pots to the south side of house in winter to catch every second of sunlight. I do not use chemicals on tree, and only throw kitchen cuttings, leaves, etc around the base.
If you live in an area where a plumeria cutting can cost $20 to hundreds of dollars, you don't want to just stick it in the soil and let it be. I failed a couple of times and can't afford your simple "method". People complicate thing when they need to 😂
@@pmkz7970 I wish you lived near me... I would give you all the cuttings you would like. 💝🙏💝what state are you in, if you don't mind my asking?
Is your medium pre moistened & that's why you use so lil water from the spray bottle! I'm so nervous at the moment I just bag rooted 25 and I put alot more water in my bags than you did im so worried! I was also worried at the fact that my medium was so much soil on the bottom and all the perlite on top! I used cactus soil so hopefully that will be more ok that I used more water than you did, & possibly that i live in palm springs area in Southern California! im truly so worried at the moment I have struggled like crazy with this plant as well praying for success at the moment so if you respond to me that would be truly so amazing of you but if you can't or don't notice this message I totally understand especially with having kids and life in general but if you do thank you so much in advance!! Your video is amazing and if my bagged one's don't make it I will try your way next but if you think this will be bad and get back to me then I will start over completely I just finished my bag rooting cuttings today 4-28-2021
Poke holes all around the bag with a toothpick or skewer. This will allow it to evaporate out.
@@savageinnature8905 thank you so much for getting back to me you are amazing!!
Where do you place them after you bagged those and in what temperature; shaded area or sunshades? Did you callus in saran wrap after you cut off from the tree or they came like that when you purchased? Do open to check sometimes or leave until you see the roots? I am curious. They're looking great.
Sorry I took so long to replay, I keep them on a heat mat in the winter, usually. This winter though I decided to test them and leave them out doors. It dropped to about 35° here and most of them still developed roots. I just transplanted a bunching into 5 gallon buckets. I have a callusing video as well on my Plumeria Area playlist. Hope this helps, apologies for the waaaaaaaaay late response.
I’m getting ready to root a few cuttings I took from our tree that’s been growing indoors for 10years here in idaho. Im super excited to get these rooted.
Is your rooting medium dry dry or pre moistened?
Will this method work on for my cuttings that I have been letting callus without the plastic wrap method. Just air drying it?
Thank you.
The coir, or rooting medium is mostly dry, add a spray or two from the squirt bottle at the bottom of the bag, the roots will grow to the moisture.
Do you place the bags directly on the heat mat for the duration of rooting? Also, do you have to rehydrate the soil if it dries out?
Yes, they stay on it most of the rooting stage unless it’s warm enough outside. If you feel they are being dry you can put them in some water for a few hours. The holes in the bag will allow water to seep in. Don’t get too much water, maybe like 5-10 minutes then out.
Beautiful.
Soooo glad I found this video. Just bought couple of cuttings and I planted it already (2 weeks) can I take it out and do this? Also, where do you leave this while waiting to root? It’s about 75-100 degrees where I’m at :)
I’m in the SoCal area, that’s perfect weather where you are! I would just leave them where they’re at. Plumerias are amazing and will do well if you cut and plant. This process is just to ensure rooting. If you don’t see any new growth on your freshly planted cuttings in a few weeks, I would go ahead and pull them and try the method I’m doing. Thanks you hope your plants thrive!! 🤙🌸🌺🌼🙏
So how did they turn out....?
Great! I even left them out in 35° winter nights and most grew roots. I just transplanted a few to 5 gallon buckets two weeks ago.
Hey Mr. Savage. mahalo. I've tried the plastic wrap but noticed on your video that the center layer is white as the part that swells, however a few cuttings I have purchased looked ok when I wrapped them but now have changed color (the center). Is this normal? It's only been 5 days and I don't see any change except for the discoloration. I have been trying to grow plumerias for 40 years and fail every year. I pot them up for others and their's grows. So I have tried 40 different ways and can't keep them past one year. I am obsessed to be successful. So what should I do?
Sounds like it's rotting.
@@SeraphimCherubim Thanks for your reply. The part that's dark is still hard. Should I cut off and start again? And also of course I found another plumeria stick I planted last year but it got accidentally covered w/bags of chicken manuer. I found it yesterday and its perfectly fine but never rooted last summer. Should I stick it back in the potting soil or recut? I can't seem to ever win w/this plant.
I suppose it depends on what it's doing. If the cutting is really rotting cut the rot off. If it's just discoloration put it in the dirt and let it root. The key with plumeria is to think of them as succulents. They like Heat and they don't like a whole lot of water. My best success has been putting cuttings in pots of sand and forgetting about them. I have seedlings now about 3 inches tall. I am trying the bag method now on some cuttings I got from Hawaii.
I think success also has to do with the timing. Ex. If the mother tree is active... then the cuttings are more likely to take. I hope this helps.
@@SeraphimCherubim Thx again for your comments. Funny you should mention succulents. That is one of my many tries. I put a succulent cutting on top of the plumeria pot and it grew but not the Plumeria. Go figure that one. Last year I planted seeds and ended up with 22 seedlings but for lack of knowledge lost all but 3. Discouraged I put them out on my garden sink and every time I turned water on they got a splash. I didn't care if I lost the only 3 I had left and to my surprise they started to grow. I thought for sure they were being overwatered. I just repotted them yesterday thinking the roots might be too fragile but they had some decent roots. They now look like pencils growing year #2. Also read or saw on video somewhere that they like to be moist but not wet. An "ah ha" for me. Something new and different for try #41. My daughter says they like water and I've watched her drown hers and it grows to this day. Maybe because she lives high up in the mountains and her plant is in a spot where clothes dryer vent blows hot air on it. I will never stop trying. I also found a potted plumeria that I planted last year that got covered with bags of chicken manuer and when I discovered it, it had been pushed to side of pot and when I pulled it out it had never rooted. It's still green and plump. Should I cut off and let dry out again or just stick back in a pot of soil. Thx for your time.
Since its calloused off I would just stick it in the ground. I live in Florida so my techniques are probably different. It's hot here. Plumeria is native to Mexico so I would say they probably love that climate the best.
Good video. So you don't really need any water except the spritz to promote rooting? Wow. This saves alot of space seems cool and manage temps. Thanks.
You’re welcome. It’s best to just cut and dry for a few minutes/couple hours at most. Lots of different ways to get a plumeria cutting to root but this and gang rooting in perlite seem to be the most effective.
Hello!.
Do you have a follow-up video?
I do not, but I do have the majority of them rooted in pots on my patio. A few did not make it but that’s always expected. 🤙🙏
Mr Savage - or anyone - is there a limit to how 'large' a cutting can be, to get rooted and then planted (in the ground). I am in Southern CAL. I was given about 6 -8 big cuttings, practically full/medium branches from a 12' tall really old and beautiful plumeria tree. My cuttings are each about 3-5 feet long, and each has about 2-5 mini-branches of their own that are each about 1-2 feet (the mini branches). Can I root, and then plant, the whole 4-foot tall branch cutting (heavily staked so it does not fall down).
No, the larger the cutting, the easier it is to root.
Did the cutting that you put in nothing but perlite did it root?
do you wet the soil in the bag before you put the cutting?
No, I keep it dry as possible.
How long can you leave it in the bag
Cathy Ortego Months! They’ll even grow leaves and shoot inflos.
Can I leave it in the bag until next spring? thanks
Yes, I leave mine in the garage overwinter on a heat mat. Helps the promote root growth.
Savage In The Garden thanks
Can hardly hear you. Cut the background nouse please. Thank you in advance...
@@annmantuzzi1782 this was back before I knew how to edit videos. And you’re right it’s very hard to hear, apologies 🙏
Love the video. No problems hearing you.
How long it takes for tha callus? Its amazing... Please reply
It’s takes a few days to a couple weeks. Sometimes longer. But you should start noticing the build up within a few days
how can I get those varieties of plumeria??
Search and you will find.
Hello, is one little spray of water enough to root in all that medium? I just followed your video and crossing my fingers now!
Yes! It doesn’t take much moisture for them to root.
What water you spray
Just regular tap water.
Savage In The Garden thanks
Really that’s easy I think I kill mine too much water 🥲🥲🥲🥲
Can I have some of your plumerias roosters
Plumeria roosters?! That would be something.
Yo!
SeamasterGMT 🤙🌸🌺🤙
I "liked" the video and each person has their own way of rooting these things, but you don't use rooting hormone? I thought that was rather important. Almost as important as hormones are to a professional body builder! No, only kidding, ha ha.
Sometimes I do, but it’s not necessary. There are many ways to root plumerias, no true right way but some methods work well for different people.
Way too much distractions kids in the background could not hear you very well start to watch another video that you made and was disappointing you cannot hear you
i was wondering too. was there really kids playing in the background? i would be like stfu! im making a vid. orrr did he have kids playing in the background in an audio track with tropical music just for the vid??