Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Making a tree brug from a 8 foot cutting, 1 by begoniacrazii

begoniacrazii wrote:
All of mine are in pots. (larger than 28" clay for one) they'll spend this winter in the hoop house for which I have purchased 200' of heating cables to warm it up. I have one 3 year old brug - the one that just bloomed for the 1st time this year, and half a dozen smaller ones. (peaches and cream, Dr. Seuss , one 'pink', one 'yellow' and one 'white', from a mail order. They came as finger sized cuttings - barely rooted- and are now pretty large, but no sign of any blooms. For the 3 yr old. It froze to the soil level and I was going to toss it, but then I see these little bits of new green leaves sprouting and I say "Self, coult it be coming back?" and I answer 'YES! It is!' - So I babied it and got one bloom by October. Then the next year, same story, only this time, I knew it would come back so I just had patience. Again, one or two blooms. Then last fall, DH built a hoophouse (see photo, arrow shows my brugs, but they are at least a foot taller now) and she got to winter over in there. Again, frozen to the soil level ,but this year I have two blooms and several buds (I'll get some more photos today). My question to you is this, I have the ability to cut it at the the 'Y' (first time I've known about this) and put it in a pot of water in my house for the winter. I can do the same with the others, but they don't have blooms. What would you recommend, if my goal it to propagate? Should I wait until the blooming one is finished and then do what you show in this thread?
I did cut two suckers off of Dr. Suess