Texas Gardening: Brugs - do you grow them?, 1 by charlenesplants

charlenesplants wrote:
My cuttings that I bought from flowerjunkie are growing like crazy. They are in shelves turned upside down so that they will hold water. I keep them in about an inch or so of water and they wick the water up to the roots. I have them in my sunniest windows. My creamsickle has bloomed inside. It is the first brug that I bought. I have always left it outside and let it die down and come back. This year I brought it inside and put it in front of my back door and left the glass storm door closed and opened the wooden door. I keep it watered and put coffee and manure on it. It loves the treatment so far.

I got a very large white noid at the arlington RU and it is growing beside the creamsickle, but no blooms as yet in spite of lots of growth.

I took cuttings from a friends noid yellow and some of them are 3' tall already. I got pink favorite from the Arlington ru as a cutting and it is doing fine, but doesn't have as much growth as the ones from flowerjunkie. Her cuttings had so many white nubbies for starting roots that I think that may be the difference.

My house looks like a nursery, that goodness DH loves me, cuz he isn't too crazy about it, but tolerates it.

I think using the upside down shelves that hold water may be helping with the humidity and so far I haven't had bug problems. The plants don't stay soaked, they just stay moist as they wick up the water as they need it.

Here is my creamsickle blooming inside.