need input please:)

I have several brugs in the ground. I should cut them back to the ground before frost, correct?
I have several in pots, how far can I cut them back if I wish to get a few more cuttings to share?
Do you have a product endorsement for insecticidal soap for treating pots before bringing in?
At what night temp should they come in?
thanks:)

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For whatever it is worth...I cut my Brugs down to the top of the ground and then cover with a lot of mulch...I try to do this before they freeze. Try to get this done in late Oct to mid Nov here.

I have cut the ones in pots down to two to three inches above the pot and they come back even taller then before.

Gloria

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Bonnie, i only had 4 last year, and it is warmer here. had 2 in pots, left outside, they came back. the JO and FP took light light frosts this spring with no damage. and i didn't cut back the JO that was in the ground....the new plant grew up around the old stems. i have heard, sure Gloria knows, some versicolors and maybe aureas aren't as hardy, but then again other things can kill a plant in winter besides cold. i run the sprinklers when it doesn't rain for a couple of weeks through the winter, have lost almost nothing since i started doing this.

I keep some in pots to have blooms inside during the winter. One flower will perfume my whole house, and the only one I have is that Frosty Pink that Brugmansia tells us is the 'least fragrant of them all'. Last year I had blooms on two plants, thru Christmas. Those plants are looking better and blooming better than they did last year, so I'm hoping for a fragrant winter.

MsBatt, please email me if you would.

Safe soap insecticidal soap works fine, but I tend to switch back and forth between naturals, systemics, and non-systemics. As for versicolors, I know many like the Cypress Gardens as it is a bit wider than many of the other versicolors and its a good seed setter. Personally, I like the Alba a bit better, but thats for the longer tendrils and the stronger fragrance. The Alba is a bit more of a thinner flower...and a lighter green as well...Just picked a completly hollow seedpod of my alba by the way. Anyone else have a hollow seedpod ever?...Going crazzy with all of these flowers blooming at the house...trying to pollinate everything as ussuall to another species or the same species if its an aurea...just call me the rambler...seriously, I will get better....Ah, mix some hot peppers in that Insecticidal soap if you want to doctor it up.

I havn't had any of my small ones go through a winter yet but the large ones have never been hit maybe I am lucky here but when there is a frost warning I cover my delicate plants in the yard with old sheets.

MzM,
I have to put some in pot cause I ran out of room in the ground and DH won't till up more ground (at this time). It is also hard to grow Brugs on the driveway,gazebo,deck ect. Girl I have Brugs everywhere....LOL..ask Jen. I even have them growing in the compost pile.

well I only have my cuttings from tiG,:) but was told that they will over winter here in my zone 7 if cut back to the ground and heavily mulched. Sure hope this is true.

Jody, we will find out together. Could you keep a couple in the greenhouse til spring? I'm sending a rooted plant or two with the next batch.

how do i overwinter them in the house to get blooms during the winter?
oh yes, gloria has brugs. i wanted to salvage the ones in her compost pile, but she was pretty intent on showing me the logging road in the back that had brugs, cassias, hibiscus, etc..she even makes pretties for the country road crews, lol

Oh tiG, THANKS!!! Actually, they will all probably be staying in the greenhouse this winter, just cause they are small and I'd like to pamper them a bit, so that come next spring they can go in the ground with no worries :)

Jody,
Smart move-you can always plant them out next year after danger of frost in the ground. Till the ground and give it some supplemental composted plant and animal matter, pour in some fish emulsion-pure undiluted fish emulsion-stir/rake/till again-then add in a bag of your favorite potting soil-rake-plant em and watch them take off like you wouldn't believe. Or if your like me-watch them all day everyday and watch the buds start to form and uncurl almost unnoticed...
Myself, I am only moving a single Culebra, Double orange, Butterfly, and some cuttings into the greenhouse. Everything else is already in the overwintering in the ground. So, last minute seeds are still being started on my plants of course in a race against the cold. Of course, I have the ones in the greenhouse in the ground as well. One can never be to safe with ones hybrids.
Ahh, whiskers, and a few other aurea hybrids going into the green house as well...Like my aurea seedlings, but thats it....

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