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:
"HC" wrote in message
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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:

"Peter" wrote in message
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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!

"Peter" wrote in message
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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

"meeee" writes:
Thanks for this! I've had trouble with the pinks and reds as well, so this
will be worth a try.

I used to regularly walk past a garden with a frangipani whose flowers
were such a dark purple as to be practially black. They were smallish and
not as attractive as the common frangi, but such a novelty. Unfortunately
the branches were out of reach from the street :-(
and I wasn't brave enough to knock and ask
whether I could please have a cutting.

Then one day I discovered that the tree had been cut back to just a stump!
It never regrew, so my opportunity to own a black frangipani slipped by!
There weren't even any prunings piled up anywhere that I could rifle.
--
John Savage (my news address is not valid for email)

"John Savage" wrote in message
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"meeee" writes:
Thanks for this! I've had trouble with the pinks and reds as well, so this
will be worth a try.

I used to regularly walk past a garden with a frangipani whose flowers
were such a dark purple as to be practially black. They were smallish and
not as attractive as the common frangi, but such a novelty. Unfortunately
the branches were out of reach from the street :-(
and I wasn't brave enough to knock and ask
whether I could please have a cutting.

Then one day I discovered that the tree had been cut back to just a stump!
It never regrew, so my opportunity to own a black frangipani slipped by!
There weren't even any prunings piled up anywhere that I could rifle.
--
John Savage (my news address is not valid for email)

ARGH!! Those HEATHENS!!! *Sigh* And they probably never knew what they had
either....

In article ,
"meeee" wrote:

Then one day I discovered that the tree had been cut back to just a stump!
It never regrew, so my opportunity to own a black frangipani slipped by!
There weren't even any prunings piled up anywhere that I could rifle.
--
John Savage (my news address is not valid for email)

ARGH!! Those HEATHENS!!! *Sigh* And they probably never knew what they had
either....

Couple of hundred for a small plant, according to the Herald today!

--
Chookie -- Sydney, Australia
(Replace "foulspambegone" with "optushome" to reply)

"Parenthood is like the modern stone washing process for denim jeans. You may
start out crisp, neat and tough, but you end up pale, limp and wrinkled."
Kerry Cue

G'day again

One thought that I had last night re Frangi trees growing in a large
pot.......how large is the root system? and how invasive? I realise
that I'll have to repot every few years but wondering if the root system
would crack a glazed pot, for instance.

Thinking of putting the red one I bought on eBay in a large glazed pot.
Bronwyn ;-)


Peter wrote:
Peter wrote:

Hia folks im new to these woods, just wondering if anyone knows how to
take cuttings from a fragipani and if its difficult/Possible

the house we rent is being sold and we have this beautifull pink and
yellow one id realy like to keep a bit for later on when we get a
place of our own so i guess i need to knwo if they would like to be in
a pot as well

Cheers Folks
Pete

thanks a lot Folks, i will try a bit from everyone's book i reckon
i didn't think to cut the leaves Off and standing them upright seems
like a good idea too

will cut a few more and try the newspaper idea as well

cheers to all who answered

"HC" wrote in message
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G'day again

One thought that I had last night re Frangi trees growing in a large
pot.......how large is the root system? and how invasive? I realise that
I'll have to repot every few years but wondering if the root system would
crack a glazed pot, for instance.

Thinking of putting the red one I bought on eBay in a large glazed pot.
Bronwyn ;-)

i had two in a big plastic pot, & they were fine. i found the root system
was appropriately small. however, in a pot i don't think the tree would
ultimately grow really large as they would in a garden. they're very pretty,
small in a pot, though! any tree in a pot you need to keep an eye on.
kylie

Thanks Kylie, somehow I didn't think they were too invasive but decided
to check and make sure. The added benefit of having one in a pot is
that it can be moved near a window or door when in bloom.....better than
having cut flowers in a vase!! lol

Bronwyn ;-)

0tterbot wrote:

"HC" wrote in message
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G'day again

One thought that I had last night re Frangi trees growing in a large
pot.......how large is the root system? and how invasive? I realise that
I'll have to repot every few years but wondering if the root system would
crack a glazed pot, for instance.

Thinking of putting the red one I bought on eBay in a large glazed pot.
Bronwyn ;-)


i had two in a big plastic pot, & they were fine. i found the root system
was appropriately small. however, in a pot i don't think the tree would
ultimately grow really large as they would in a garden. they're very pretty,
small in a pot, though! any tree in a pot you need to keep an eye on.
kylie

"Chookie" wrote in message
...
In article ,
"meeee" wrote:

Then one day I discovered that the tree had been cut back to just a
stump!
It never regrew, so my opportunity to own a black frangipani slipped
by!
There weren't even any prunings piled up anywhere that I could rifle.
--
John Savage (my news address is not valid for email)

ARGH!! Those HEATHENS!!! *Sigh* And they probably never knew what they
had
either....

Couple of hundred for a small plant, according to the Herald today!


*Groan*...you know I'm going to be awake at 3am tomorrow morning gnashing my
teeth over this now?

--
Chookie -- Sydney, Australia
(Replace "foulspambegone" with "optushome" to reply)

"Parenthood is like the modern stone washing process for denim jeans. You
may
start out crisp, neat and tough, but you end up pale, limp and wrinkled."
Kerry Cue

"meeee" writes:
"John Savage" wrote in message
I used to regularly walk past a garden with a frangipani whose flowers
were such a dark purple as to be practially black. They were smallish and
not as attractive as the common frangi, but such a novelty. Unfortunately
the branches were out of reach from the street :-(
and I wasn't brave enough to knock and ask
whether I could please have a cutting.

Then one day I discovered that the tree had been cut back to just a stump!
It never regrew, so my opportunity to own a black frangipani slipped by!
There weren't even any prunings piled up anywhere that I could rifle.

ARGH!! Those HEATHENS!!! *Sigh* And they probably never knew what they had
either....

It's possible that I jumped to the wrong conclusion. You have prompted me
to rethink the possibilities.......

Perhaps someone else coverted the black frangipani and "did it over" late
one night while the owners were asleep? That would explain why it was
hacked back so severely, and why I couldn't see any prunings stacked up on
the footpath.

So, does anyone recall seeing a bunch of potted black frangipanis on sale
at a Sydney carboot sale about 9 years ago???
--
John Savage (my news address is not valid for email)

Sorry just had to ask. John did you ever live in Newtown NSW?

Regards
Katherine


"John Savage" wrote in message

"jones" writes:
Sorry just had to ask. John did you ever live in Newtown NSW?

No, not Newtown.
--
John Savage (my news address is not valid for email)

Peter wrote:



Akkkk September ..... most likely senario is that we will be out of here
by april but ours does have some of the claw type ends on so i might
have a go anyways Cheers


Could always go back and ask the new tenants if they mind.

Or ..... you could always take some "midnight cuttings".

Of course, should you or any of your team be captured, this newsgroup
will disavow any knowledge.


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farted you blind"!

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