I have a frangi-pangi that is about 6 ft. tall now. Problem is, it is very
lop-sided, as it has the main trunk, and only TWO main branches that are
maybe 120 degrees apart, so the plant is so lop-sided that I had to install
a thick cord anchoring the main trunk to the porch railing. Otherwise the
whole plant, pot and all, would fall over. Is there anything that can
encourage the plant to start a new third branch? That main trunk just kind
of "dead-ends", and then the two branches are shooting out from the side at
the very top.

Cut it back to encourage branching.


Jim Caldwell wrote in message
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I have a frangi-pangi that is about 6 ft. tall now. Problem is, it is very
lop-sided, as it has the main trunk, and only TWO main branches that are
maybe 120 degrees apart, so the plant is so lop-sided that I had to
install
a thick cord anchoring the main trunk to the porch railing. Otherwise the
whole plant, pot and all, would fall over. Is there anything that can
encourage the plant to start a new third branch? That main trunk just kind
of "dead-ends", and then the two branches are shooting out from the side
at
the very top.

If you cut the plumeria it will grow more branches. I have one that I have
cut back several times (always using the cuttings somewhere else in the
garden) and mine are very bushy!

--
gloria - only the iguanas know for sure

hi jim
cut it back.
if you simply cut the growing tips off, it will produce new branches at the tips.... and therfore might stay kinda lanky..
i suggest cut it back hard... down past the two branches... even as far down as where they fork.
this will produce growing tips also, but might make the top bushier giving it some more balance.
Renay