I am fairly new to growing Plumerias and need some advice. One of my plants had an inflo start and instead of a bloom, I got another branch. I'm afraid the thinness of the inflo will not maintain the branch. Any advice would be welcomed.

I have never seen that happen. I would think that if it is doing it, it did it on purpose and the inflo will expand and become a branch, but I honestly have no idea. Maybe it's a random mutation . Hopefully someone else can be of more help. If it were mine, I would leave it just for the 'experiment'.

I've never seen one do that. @drdawg may have some ideas on how to handle this. He grows a lot of plumerias.

That's not unusual to see, @Tcrosswhite, @JamesAcclaims, and @plantmanager. I can't tell you the "why" though. Here are four different plants that I photographed (the last three just photographed). I apologise for the photography. The plants were stuck in the middle of a bunch of plants, and I could not get close and leaves blocked angles.

Wow. More common than I would have thought.

I guess when you have as many plants as I do, and for so long, you see lots of strange things. I wish I knew why an inflo. stem becomes a vegetative stem. Perhaps someone will know.

Two years ago one of my inflos turned into a branch. I thought it would grow into a normal size branch but it never grew into a strong branch. It always had that thin smooth inflo shape to it. The top 4-5 inches kept growing longer and thicker just like any branch would but it would always be connected to that weak inflo branch. So I cut it off. Since your inflo/new branch is so long! I would just get rid of it.

I never cut those off. They seem to thicken and strengthen with age.

Still don't know why they grow, but like Hetty, I have never cut one off.

Hetty, please show me a pic of what the inflo stem looks like after it's gotten larger and older. I'm very curious to see how big it gets. Thanks