Tropicals & Tender Perennials: seedling brugs, 0 by SherryLike

SherryLike wrote:
rutholive, I sincerely appreciate your compliment, thank you very much!!! Most brugs, that I'm familiar with have that particular star shape and you will see more, much like mine, only better!

Margie: Yes, I used rockwool. My first batch of seedlings, started late, were destroyed by my bleeping cats!! I replanted (late) and have 2 naturally pollinated, 4 BeccaLynn X CG and 1 PB X Rothkeisch, sp, I NEVER spell it correctly, but it is nice and tall and has not Yed, and of course I hope it doesn't, I'd LOVE yet another tree.

I've had my best results with my seedlings I put in my tomato boxes. Previously, the tomato boxes grew 4 broken limbs of 'unknown' brugs. On a whim, I removed the 4 unknown brugs, because they rooted so quickly, planted them, they flushed quickly and have had blooms all summer. Then, I planted 4 tiny seedlings in the tomato box: 1 BeccaLynn/CG, 2 naturally polinated, and, the 1 PB x Rothkeisch.

The photo I've attached, includes, the one, tall, stout, single BeccaLynn/CG that I planted in the tomato box and her three full sisters, the tiny ones, in regular 'seedling' plastic pots. I'm not sure how long ago, less than a month, I potted all four and their photo is attached. Big Sister, protected her three baby sisters from the recent wind, rain, hail storm, but Big Sister was damaged by falling limbs and lost lots of leaves.

I found the difference in the size of the brugs amazing, the ones grown in the boxes are big, healthy, bug resistance. I plan to plant more seedlings in the tomato boxes and see what happens...