Tropicals & Tender Perennials: new brug owner question, 1 by bettydee

bettydee wrote:
Hanna,
That's the general idea and many do exactly that. Bernstein produced a bloom for me that was bigger than the cutting. Most of my cuttings will spend some time putting out new growth from dormant buds that lie along the side of the cutting first. Then they will produce the "Y"s and bloom a bit later in the spring or early summer. However, it is also fairly common to see a cutting put out a few new shoots along the side of the cutting then redirect its energy to producing new shoots that come up out of the ground. Those shoots will have to go through the vegetative growth stage before they "Y" and bloom. So you don't get any blooms from those Brugs until they have completed the vegetative stage. Cutting those vegetative shoots off at ground level usually doesn't direct the energy back to the original cutting. So it's best to leave them. In fact those are the shoots you want if you prefer having a tree-shaped Brug.

This ia a photo of my little Bernstein cutting