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Hi Meredith,
I just stumbled over your other thread about the cuttings. Its amazing how fast they have buds. Congratulations :) I hope that you are posting a few pictures, when they come out.

No, I don't think it has something with cold or for that sake hot nights to do. Cold will sometimes slow the process, where the buds are builded and heat spped the same process a bit up.

All Brugmansia plants has in them a kind of drawing of, in which height they will bloom. In case of cuttings, the height also depends on, where from the mother plant the cuttings were taken ...

... If we take an example with a plant that bloom in a height of 6 feet and play with the thought, that it is cut down to 3 feet, then ... this plant will have an internal drawing that cause it to grow additional 3 feet (up to the original 6 feet), before it blooms again.

The next examples are not always true, but can be taken more as a set of coarse ground rules for blooming heights ...

If we return to the tree that blooms 6 feet high and now take a cutting from the base just over the root system, this cutting also has a tendency telling it to grow to6 feet, before blooming. On the other hand, a cutting taken from the original plant in a height of 3 feet above the ground will only have to grow 3 feet, before blooming and so on ...

The lower circle on the picture is where you would take cuttings for making high trees and the middle circle is cuttings for medium sized trees. The upper circle is where you take cuttings for making heavy flowering bushes or shrubs.

I hope I didn't confuse you :)

Tonny