Perfect, Don, just perfect.

They are sooo beautiful! Hoping mine stay alive to look half as nice. Thats awesome to offer you a cutting too! I sooo need to go to Hawaii, not only for Plumerias, but its on my bucket list of all time places to see!

Shailesh:  They're sooo easy to root.  Just stick 'em in potting soil and keep it damp.  In the winter they go dormant, even here in Hawaii.  The leaves shed and the flowers fall.  Bring 'em indoors to keep from freezing.  Take 'em out when the frost warnings are pau.

Jenn:  The sooner the better.  It's becoming very "touristy" these last couple years, but there are still some hideaways that bring back the ol' days and ways.  You just gotta have a good tour guide :)

I wish I could describe the smell of the flowers from under the trees...

 

Nate

Nate, those pictures make me want to come to hawaii for another vacation. Those flowers remind me of the paradise and fun times.  

Aloha, everyone!  Here's more pics from yesterday's galavanting.  I don't how I forgot to mention this (maybe from all the excitement and everything), but I also found a very different kind of tree...I'm guessing it's as old as the plumerias in the neighborhood maybe.

 

   
 
 
Nate

Nice!
So California not the only paradise ? :)
I love your photos, have to try the plumerias myself.

Nice!

Love them all! Funny, the only plumerias I've seen were in pots. I had no idea they grew like that! I really thought they were like a dwarf tree. Wow!

 
My plumeria are awesome. The right side plumeria's leaves grew real fast in the past 2 weeks. I can't wait to see the flowers.
A BIG THANK YOU to Nate for your extreme generosity for sending the cuttings.

Perfect timing: I am planning on transplanting my plumeria to a larger container this afternoon, already thinking about how to keep it alive and healthy over the Georgia winter. It is doing very well in its pot in my backyard ( I would post a picture, but the message board won't let me - keeps saying the pics are too large) and my plan it to keep it over the winter in my kitchen near a window until, say, April...subject to wife's approval.  Joe

Awesome to see some aloha in PA!  I'm excited to see your new trees are doing well, Shailesh! You're gonna love the flowers and the scent.  Any way I can spread some aloha over in your neck if the woods, just let me know ;)

I just bought 2 myself and planted them in pots to welcome friends at the front door. I know a 'plumeria' guy here in town that hybridizes them. He said most people kill their cuttings by over watering them. They are like fig cuttings too much water and they rot. Once rooted I was told to pot in 1/3 pumice, 1/3 cactus soil, and 1/3 orchid bark and to water only once per week. I just potted mine up last week so we'll see it these 'directions' hold up.

Aloha, Joe!  Just let me know when you're ready to add more ;)  You, too Shailesh.  
Oh, and nice, healthy plumeria you have there, Bass.  You need more colors :)

Anyone ever seen purple plumeria? I've been on the hunt for that.

I can't ever recall seeing a purple plumeria.  I think the closest to purple I've seen is maybe a lavender or very dark fuchsia.  May well be a hybrid of some sort or genetic anomaly maybe?

I think I might have done something wrong. I have 5 plumeria in pots and they stayed outside in the cold for one night before I remembered to bring them inside. Now all the leaves are falling off of all of them.

Does anyone know if this normally happens in the winter or did I kill them? They are not mushy.

Thanks for any insight!

Thank you all for sharing the pictures of your Plumeria.  My wife and I are huge fans of the Plumeria and have considered adding some to our collection for awhile now.  Living in Colorado, so I can't just run down to the nursery to buy one, unlike hibiscus, not even in the summer.  I've somewhat looked at various online providers, are the recommended sites? Is there anyone I can buy or cuttings from?

Thank you Scott  

Jenn,
  A little bit of cold is not a problem.  If it was a lot of cold or more of a freeze then you might have some issues.  The dropped leaves aren't a real problem...actually, get used to it.  Plumeria really only have leaves at the last few inches of the ends of the branches.  Notice that they have a kind of spindly look to them...
  When I bring mine in every year it drops some leaves from the combined shock of getting less sunlight and less water.  And then usually sometime during the winter it will loose most or all of its leaves.  It bounces back, though.  Yours just probably got a shock it didn't like, but it should bounce back.
  Mine got caught outside in a cold October chill about 12 years or so ago.  It had damage at the ends of every branch...the green growth basically shriveled up and died back.  But a new growth bud or two appeared below or next to every damaged part and it kept on growing.  There are some visible scars on every branch because of that damage...but it keeps chugging along...
  If you do end up with damage, I'd recommend cutting the end back so you have a nice clean cut that heals over.  I didn't do that, and in retrospect I should have...
Cheers,
Jim

The first picture looks like a "Candy Stripe" that I had a number of years ago.

Thank you all so much for the replies. I feel tons better about my plumeria now. I'm so relieved because I truly thought I had killed them when it got down below 40. Very thankful for for ya'lls knowledge also. It definitely taught me a lesson and now I will be more vigilant in caring for them :-)

A few cuttings I started this summer, there are tons of colors and varieties...