Clematis: This Is a Test,from the ...., 1 by JLD_II

JLD_II wrote:
WOW Clare. It's 35F here right now and the only green in sight is parts of the lawn and the daffodils. Here you are wrapping up and we're dying to get started. Someday I'll get into a zone 10, I hope.

Just 1 more statement and I'll leave all of this alone except for sending some stuff to you. I was a little discouraged when I got into the cut box. That had nothing to do with ANYTHING you did or did not do nor the quality of your plants. I was and am like at kid a Christmas, blessed w/ a box of suprises. I hope you'll get to know me well enough so you can understand what I'm trying to say and not what I said.
Man I understand what a hassle it is to label up and package plants and cuttings, I don't think many other people do. It all adds up real fast, buy bubble wrap here, buy a box there, spend a day preparing/labeling then racing to the post office just to spend more money. I do not have the words to describe how honored I am just to have recieved your babies nor the words to describe how small and sickened I felt when you thought I was complaining. I'll leave it at that and on with the expiramenting and documenting our results.

The pink bower looks like I bought it from the nursery, it's perfect. The Charles Grimaldi has grown several new leaves and is a few nodes taller already, I've had to raise the hieght of the light over it twice. The frosty pink's big leaves are still a little droopy, but they aren't showing any signs of trouble. I'm thinking if it keeps improving like it is, I won't loose a leaf.
The 3 Brugmansia Suaveolens are in different locations, 1 is in the tray with the Passiflora and shows signs of new growth at every node. The other 2 cuts are in my fish aquarium filter box. Picture them in a cup of water except the water is changing automatically and constantly with aquarium water that is circulating so much, it's at the maximum level of saturated O2 that water can hold. I put them in an actual cup at 1st and they tipped over for about 12 hours of nothing. They will root as you said, I can't wait to see if it's faster in the fish water or a cup. Hopefully the aquarium water doesn't contain too many nutrients for a cutting. All the cuts in the dome are doing well except for a few that didn't have any leaves left on the stems. A few is 2-3 of the cuts and I don't remember which 1's right now.
This pic is out of focus but you can see the new growth already on the Brug. Suaveolens. This 1 is in the dome w/ the Passifloras