Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Can Brugs be "forced"?, 1 by Brugie

Brugie wrote:
Since I've not experimented with this I don't have a definite answer. I just went back through my pictures and Butterfly was a tree I held over and it bloomed before the other trees held over in the cold garage. First blooms for it were late June. Now...I had a Susanne cutting and it bloomed on 6-11 and I got it as a rooted cutting, early spring. Most of my plants came out of the warm house, including two or three big trees, and I didn't see that they did any better than others or cuttings. Mine all bloom at about the same time and they started the first week in July. In August some of my seedlings started blooming. One bloomed and was pollinated and it was started from seed on Feb. 14. That is a little less than six months from seed to bloom. This leads me to believe that what helps brugs most is day length. I could be all wrong, so don't go by what I say since I've not tried forcing one. I've had some in the greenhouse in the spring that were quite tall compared to the cuttings or seedlings and they don't seem to bloom any sooner for me.

Here is a picture of Susanne on June 11th.