Could i grow plumeria in zone 9b?

[Victor likes palms]

Is it possible for a plumeria to survive my winters? Im located in zone 9b Bee county

[Silas_Sancona]

4 minutes ago, Victor valadez said:

Is it possible for a plumeria to survive my winters? Im located in zone 9b Bee county

In the ground?

CA, FL, and AZ and other warm summer / mild winter high end 9B locales? ..reasonably easy..

In Texas, with your odd winters?  ..Tougher.. Will turn to mush if exposed to anything below about 29F < = exposed to temps at/ below 29F for about an hour or more > Includes the cultivars with some cold tolerance.

Yes, you could dig em' up and place in a garage each winter ..but that gets old real quick, esp. as they get larger..

Can wrap them up tight each winter too but if you get a long duration cold spell ( ..and temps that go well below that 29F threshold for a day ..or several.. ) they'll still end up damaged. ..add in cold + wet ground  = mush.



In containers / when grown in the correct soil mix?  Yes, Plumeria can be grown just about anywhere with out too much trouble.

[Victor likes palms]

43 minutes ago, Silas_Sancona said:

In the ground?

CA, FL, and AZ and other warm summer / mild winter high end 9B locales? ..reasonably easy..

In Texas, with your odd winters?  ..Tougher.. Will turn to mush if exposed to anything below about 29F < = exposed to temps at/ below 29F for about an hour or more > Includes the cultivars with some cold tolerance.

Yes, you could dig em' up and place in a garage each winter ..but that gets old real quick, esp. as they get larger..

Can wrap them up tight each winter too but if you get a long duration cold spell ( ..and temps that go well below that 29F threshold for a day ..or several.. ) they'll still end up damaged. ..add in cold + wet ground  = mush.



In containers / when grown in the correct soil mix?  Yes, Plumeria can be grown just about anywhere with out too much trouble.

Well we definitely go below 29, do they have a tendancy to come back from there roots?

[Silas_Sancona]

2 minutes ago, Victor valadez said:

Well we definitely go below 29, do they have a tendancy to come back from there roots?

No, not at all.

Frozen Plumeria = mush  ..roots and all.

They're like most Succulent - type plants ..any part gets damaged by cold ( or heat < sun burn / scald > ...or some other type of damage.. )  will rot away.  If the damage isn't caught and managed as soon as it is noted, entire plant can be lost -quickly-. 

No work around except digging and storing bare root thru the winter, or growing in containers that can be moved to a frost free location in places where winter freezes occur with regularity.

[mnorell]

I agree completely with Nathan on all counts. Though when I lived in Natchez (9a) I (also a neighbor a couple of blocks away) used to do the old "plant in early March, dig up the afternoon before the first frost" (usually this was a few days before Thanksgiving) thing, and I'd throw the plant in my greenhouse for the winter and ignore it. (As Nathan notes, the garage is just as good--as long as you defoliate it first.) They didn't grow that fast for me so it was very easy. You could always take a large branch cutting if it got too large, and root it to start anew...rinse...repeat...indefinitely.

In re the roots, an old, established tree (unlikely where you are since it would take ten years or so I think) once it gets a woody bark, can come back from lower down if all dead tissue is carefully removed from above. If you don't catch it all, the rot will drill down like a cancer through the plant and kill it. Best left to the Plumeria experts (there are quite a few in Houston, I believe also still a thriving Plumeria Society there). Out west where it's dry during freezes, there are several more degrees of tolerance before anything happens. In the Deep South it is so humid and wet that a plant can just melt in a seemingly light frost.

[Victor likes palms]

Would yall recommend any other tropical flowers that may do well in my area?

[Silas_Sancona]

33 minutes ago, Victor valadez said:

Would yall recommend any other tropical flowers that may do well in my area?

Take a look over this thread:
 

 

 

[Victor likes palms]

Thank you

[richtrav]

Bee County where? Down here in southernmost TX all but the most protected plumerias in the warmest areas were killed to the ground or just plain killed outright. There is an old white cultivar that can handle “ordinary” cold down here (like last January) but it’s not as showy as other varieties. 

[Victor likes palms]

Im in Beeville texas on the eastern side, inside a nieghborhood

[Victor likes palms]

We did get pretty cold during 2021 tho