General Discussion & Chat: My Winter Basement Garden, 1 by joeswife

joeswife wrote:
Julia, I looked at your brug photos very closely, looks like they are READY to Y, but have not Y'd yet. You will see little "ears" ( that is what they look like to me) when they start to Y. Once they have Y'd, then after some more leafing, you will see teeny buds..
this is frosty, he Y'd, and has buds at this point in time..Same day, Betty Marshall, still putting out vegetive growth, no Y's yet..Chrissy had bloomed all winter the year before, and same time, after I gave a lot of her branches away to people, she has to start over here.. no Y's
Here is Maya, same time of the day, she was still putting out leaves, with no Y's yet either, and lastly Kaitlyn, Y'd, Bloomed, and starting over..
Patience is a virtue.. you need lots of it with these plants, I have found. Once I see a lot of leaf growth, I start feeding on a more regular basis, and then the Y's and buds come.
I gave some master gardeners here in kansas some named brugs I started from seeds from a Brug Hybridizer here on DG. They told me they threw the plants away cuz they wouldn't ever do anything, even with their "pinching" lots of plants get bushier before bloming with pinching, but with brugs, you are taking the bloom cycle away . I am sure you don't pinch, but hopefully other new brug lovers are reading this. BettyDee was the one who told me not to pinch. ( wHEN i WAS NEW HERE)