10-06-2016, 04:43 AM
The issue in Puna is humidity and too much rain.Those beautiful plumerias you see are the ones that keep their leaves all year and are not,as you say, the scrawny ones here. I have two evergreen plumerias and live in Hilo. I keep them under the eve to keep the rain off. Otherwise the diseases run rampant. Even so, I have not been able to get them to bloom. I have not given up yet though because some of the evergreen types bloom without full sun. So I just have to find the right variety.there is a plumeria facebook page and a women there who is the curator of plumerias at a garden in Southern california. She knows her stuff. If you have a south facing location under an eve i think you might be able to pull it off.
Laura
Laura
Laura