tarev said:Hello MesaGirl, during summer and during heat wave periods, I actually water my Plumeria here everyday. I also spritz the trunk. It is very, very thirsty. Though our dry heat is not as onerous as yours, we did have it recently for 9 days, we also hit about 112F on some days, and everyday for that 9 days having about 6 to 7 hours of very dry 100F and higher temps. It will drop older lower leaves as it tries to adjust and reallocate its existing resources. It seems typical with most plants, and trees, there is just a limit to what they can take when it comes to excessive dry heat. I just water thoroughly directly the soil in the container.
I do my watering early in the day, before the hot sun hits it. That aspect of watering in intervals depends on various factors, prominent among them is temperature. Plumerias can take the heat, but it needs good humidity levels. Unfortunately during super dry heat wave, it will struggle a bit, but it will carry on, as long as it gets watered everyday, and your media has been very well draining. With the super low humidity, I think it is even hard to overwater it, water dries out very fast. It is another matter, if the plant has not leafed out yet properly, then it has to wait till well formed leaves are showing. But yours is in leaf, so it can surely drink as much as it can to survive the summer dry heat.
It is not yet too late in the season for blooms actually. I sometimes get my blooms towards the end of summer, into Fall. We all have variations in our growing areas, so it may come late to bloom, at times in my area, it seems to wait till it goes back to the mid-high 80F's to initiate its buds, so my blooming season is really short.
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