G'day Richard

Thanks very much for that info.......I will try it once my seedling
trees are big enough to scavenge some cuttings. I've noticed some
?rooted cuttings with shrivelled stems so have steered clear of buying
those because I was unsure if they would survive, your findings do seem
more common sense in this regard.

Thanks again
Bronwyn ;-)

Loosecanon wrote:
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G'day Richard

Thanks for that info....seems if I 'had' been able to get the pink
cuttings I might have stuffed up anyway!! LOL

How long do you dunk them in the bucket of water? Just until the
newspaper is saturated? and how long until you plant them?

Had noticed a lovely deep black/red on eBay but wasn't online when the
auction closed.

Bronwyn ;-)

Loosecanon wrote:

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thanks meeee
mine has pink and white petals with a yellowish core in them

I took 4 cuttings and have em out in the sun now . hope it works
Cheers
pete
meeee wrote:


Hi Pete....technically do everything Bronwyn said. However I'm
Fangipanni mad, and have an embarrassing (to family and friends)
tendancy to hack bits off vulnerable frangipannis (not from people's
gardens of course) at any time. I let them dry out, whack into some well
drained potting mix and voila! Of course, you'd have a higher chance of
the thing surviving if you did it properly, but I believe the most
important bit is to let it dry out/callous over for a week or two first,
then make sure it's not waterlogged. Our Big W also had some recently,
Darwin Sunrise being the one I bought, as it's a lovely deep red with
yellow centre and slightly ruffled petals...might be worth a look!

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Good luck with your cuttings. Take a photo of your tree, just in case
the cuttings don't make it and keep in touch, because who knows what
colours the seedlings I bought on eBay will be, the expensive one
'should' be deep red because that's why I paid all the $$$'s.

thats a really good idea i might just do that


They are a 'beautiful' flower and perfume, aren't they? Just divine
in the evenings.

i got to say i am not too enamoured with the tree its self but the
Flowers are great, especialy with my pond benath it, when the fall inot
the water they look great

Cheers

I used to do the drying of the stems but found I lost a few. Someone told
me to wrap them in newspaper and dunk them in a bucket of water. 100%
success and better root systems. This is better for pinks and reds as
they seem to have a different sort of stem to the whites and tricolours
that grow in the temperate zones.

Anyways my 2 bobs worth.

Cheers

Richard


I tried it with white frangapani cuttings a friend dropped around. I had six
of them I think and they had leaves on. Anyways I just wrapped some
newspaper around them and an elastic band around the top and bottom. I
checked about 2 months later. Water was nice a green and the mosquitos were
loving it. The newspaper stopped any green slime and all had roots.

I just transferred these to pots and carefully added soil so as to not do to
much damage to the roots.

I like this method because when you dry them they tend to shrivel in the
stem. This way in the water the stems seemed to be as big as I started with.

Give it a go you have nothing to lose. Experiment with white first as it
seems to be as common as mud.

Cheers

Richard