I'm not saying it won't help, but I'm not going to spend money trying to make the tree bloom. Now if it was just producing sparse blooms, then maybe extra P would help. Matty and Dave: I've used that bloom buster (or whatever it's called) on my Plumeria obtusa, but I have my doubts extra P will stimulate my non blooming jacaranda. Unfortunately, this tree was destroyed by Hurrican Jeanne back in 2004. I took this photo several days to a week before maximum bloom. Otherwise the tree is normal.Įvery year I watch all the other local jacaranda trees bloom and wonder when mine will finally do the same.Ībove photo: This jacaranda tree was growing up the hill in town. I have a Peltophorum africanum tree that's only bloomed once, about 3-4 years ago. bloom far better after going through a dry winter. I've read many flowering types of trees, like Jacaranda, Delonix regia et al. Further, you see that my small one did put out one bloom after only two years in the ground. But my point is, I've seen small Jacaranda mimosifolia trees (maybe 10 gallon size at most) with lots of blooms on it, that's why I don't understand why my larger one has never produced a single bloom. The only time it was irrigated was the first couple of months to get it established. My larger tree is never irrigated, period. The drier climate there, I believe, is the reason for the great bloom. mimosifolia root stock) a friend gave me.Ībove photo: A close up of the first bloom from my small jacaranda tree.ĭave and Matty: I've been on Google street scene in the LA area and saw beautiful, outstanding jacaranda trees lining the streets. jasminoides (that died, leaving only the J. The small jacaranda tree behind it was once a grafted J. This tree has never bloomed.Ībove photo: I planted this small jacaranda mimosifolia tree in the spring of 2010, as described in above text.
At this point I have given up on it and resigned myself just to enjoy the tree for what it is.Ībove photo: Small jacaranda tree I planted out in early 2000.Ībove photo: Same jacaranda tree as in above photo, only 12+ years later. While I am over joyed now that my small jacaranda tree has finally bloomed, albeit late, and hopefully there are more blooms to come, and surely there will be more next year as the tree grows larger - I'm sitll disappointed that my bigger tree has never bloomed. Note: a buddy of mine gave me a small jacaranda tree he no longer wanted and I planted it right next to my other small jacaranda tree, so that's why there are two trees in the 3rd photo below. I took the below photos of it and emailed them to my wife at work so she could see them on her smart phone. Well, lo and behold, yesterday I noticed my little jacaranda tree had a beautiful bloom on it. It went through the winter of 2011-2012 without cold damage.
My small jacaranda tree got all it's limbs frozen back to the trunk.īut as spring of 2011 came, new growth started to emerge and the tree grew nicely. However, December of 2010 I experienced the coldest radiational freeze ever in my 14+ years living here, where my open yard low dropped to 20.8 degrees F. Well, I planted the new jacaranda tree during the spring of 2010. Kathy Crowley, co-owner, assured me this jacaranda tree would bloom (I told her about my other tree not blooming). Two years ago I had finally had enough and bought a small Jacaranda mimosifolia from Crowley's Nuersery in Sarasota County, Florida. Not even on lousy bloom.Įvery spring my wife (she loves almost any plant that blooms with flowers) anticipate seeing our jacaranda tree's first bloom, and every spring we are always disappointed, for there is never any blooms. I like the tree for it's shape and foliage, but the problem is, it's never, ever bloomed. Photo #2 shows this jacaranda tree as it looks today. Sometime back in early 2000 I bought and planted a jacaranda (assume mimosifolia species), shown in photo #1 below. I once posted about this before, maybe 2-3 years ago, and don't recall what the feedback was.
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