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Old 01-08-2005, 11:56 PM
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This is what the website 'The Plumeria Place' had to say about seedlings:

Plumeria are easily grown from seed, but the time requirements may be
objectionable to some who would prefer the more rapid gratification of
flowers produced by a cutting after one to four years opposed to the two to
five years from a seedling. Since plumeria grown from seed may exhibit some,
all, or none of the characteristics of the plant that produced the seed,
many find the extra year or two well worth the wait because there is a high
probability of producing a formerly unknown flower variety. The image above
is an unnamed seedling, planted in 1989, of unknown parentage. The flip side
of this coin is that not all plumeria grown from seed are really worth
keeping since they may be poor bloomers, never bloom, or have other
objectionable qualities that make them "a child not even its mother could
love".