Mid-Atlantic Gardening: Yardening Fall #3 2013, 4 by Gitagal

Gitagal wrote:
The deed is done!!! Sadly....

Thursday--because the night weather forecast seemed scary--
I decided to start cutting back the Dr. Seuss Brug.
I thought--I'll cut back just the greener tips for now...but once i started--
There was no stopping... It had to be done anyway. Chop...chop...chop...
All thepretty blooms and buds--went down in the trash can.

Scott (from Cylburn) never made the effort to come and get the whole plant-
but said he would gladly accept any cuttings. SO--that is the way it had to be,,,,,
There was NO way this size brug--even all cut back--would fit in my basement.

I took cuttings as far down as I thought was doable. Left quite a skeletal picture...
Plenty of stems to re-grow from. Ended up with 50-60 cuttings.
Put them in moist peat/coir mix, standing up, in a plastic container.

Why stop now? So--I dug the brug up too--leaving as many roots attached as i could.
There were so many roots that grew out through the holes I cut in the sides of the pot!
A testament WHY this has to be done.
Put 2 trash bags around the root ball and put it in my car for the night.

Yesterday--I drove across town and took it all to Cylburn.
Unfortunately--Scott was not available--he had gone downtown, but told two
workers there that i was coming--so we unloaded and took it into the GH area.

Here is the pictorial story....

1--Frost got the leaves lat week--blooms still hanging on.
2--After the initial trim--cuttings not taken yet.
3--Close-up of the massive roots that grew out through the holes in the pot
4--Here's a box-full of all the cuttings. The ones to the side--are being mailed
so a man in Texas that asked for some.
5--These are the cuttings i took for myself on Oct. 17th. Growing well.
The "Maya" cuttings I took--are way behind. Different genes--I suppose....


And--so ends the second huge Brug give-away. The first was in 20010.