Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Help! My brug is losing its leaves!, 1 by MaVieRose

MaVieRose wrote:
of course i am not an expert. i just share info from personal experiences, using my common sense since we all have different growing environment, affected by soil type, temperature and kind of effort we put into growing plants.

from personal observation, when plants are moved from one environment to the other, they will definitely shed leaves -- it is their natural reaction to changes. or the plant is not suited to one's environment. i have observed this in several of brugs i grow like Milk N Honey, Ember Glow and Ursuline x Cuba. when the peak of summer came in, all leaves dropped to the point plant looked like they were dead. now that the weather is cooler, they are coming back to life.

funny u are all so concerned about losing leaves. i have been doing experiments on brugs i grow. after all they are my plants right? so i can do my own experiment/s to see how grown plants will react. any who, i have been cutting off the bigger leaves off my grown brugs. result??? i noticed after i take off bigger leaves, i left the new growths alone. after cutting off bigger leaves, brug's growth is focus on new growth - thereby forming new formation of new growths and Y-ing which produces new buds. of course, these experiments were based during the growing season in late summer, and not indoors. maybe some of u has been doing this, but it is all new to me! the very reason why i love to do experiments and find out for myself how plants would reach to certain experimentation i explore into.

i have noticed too, taking bigger leaves off, i had less problems with bugs! with less growth it is easy to detect or see bug looming around the growing plant.

just thought to throw in my 2¢ opinion.

here is a photo of a brugs whose older leaves were taken off.