Brugmansia Blooming in a vase

Dee
have a good nights sleep talk to you tommorrow
Elizabeth

I will probably join again next year, I really wished some of the old guys were still there. It keeps changing but some thing don't. I do love Daves, there is more to life than Brugs. LOL

Goodnight Dee

If we keep going, we will need a new thread before we go to bed, LOL.

Good night Dee, sleep well. I got to take off myself. Dinner to cook.We are having Chili tonight. Yummy. If Hubby doesn't commandear the computer, I'll try to be on later. Bye
Kim

Goodnight Kim, I will not be here much longer, It's getting late.

Ken
I have soooo many Pic's if we need more, but we'll be waiting for you to post a thread, I think we would love that, it
sure is interesting

Elizabeth

You know we are not youngsters, I said it's getting late at 7:58

Ken
it's just us I guess, I have to get off here also, so I guess, I'll talk to everyone tommorrow, have a good night
Elizabeth

I have lots of pics also. I have taken a bunch this year so Maggi can post them when she gets our Web-site going. We have one for my peafowl but need to get the nursery going on line.

Goodnight.

well we just got home from the movies, I had to read everyones posts, I like logs, and I like smal cuttings as well just seem to grow for me..

what a fun thread.. I love to hear yet another method of rooting cuttings.. the toilet paper roll cardboard sounds promising.. lots of air with the moisture .. everyyear I'm always going to but don't make an aeroponics chamber.. [ a spray of a fine micron spray every few minutes .. with plenty of air drying time in between ..a little different than hte hydroponic or cloning chambers that use a constant water bath for rooting ] I guess it will be when I'm out.. and can make use of 100's of brugs.. but I manage too many right here already with out it..
What might make me move out faster.. is being able to get to a place.. where
I am able to get some white pea fowel with emrald green spotting.. Ken.. yours are the lovliest... I offered one to mother.. but she declined.. having had the last common ones that roamed the yard she had stolen.. enough she thinks with the dozens of cockers.. and dozens of bengals she breeds and sells.. at 88.. a trooper.. oh.. and dozens of brugs..
OH Ken... are the pea fowel really dead set aganst snakes.. A friend had some of them and said they were the best anti snake warriors
we had snow here yesterday.. a few flakes almost hit the ground.. we've had snow.. but no frosts yet.. and no temperatures below 38 * F.. is this global warming..
I'm still running 3 brugs in the ground [ in the local park ] with plenty of good looking leaves and stilll trying to push out blooms.. going to try and keep them alive and grow out from the the roots in the ground here..
i'd thought I'd wait to give them a frost first.. to get the sap driven back to the roots before lopping off the tops and mulching.. don't really know if this thought is helpful.. or even desirable.. but here goes..
the cuttings here... the black bucket in the lower right of the photo.. is filled with water.. and a wire basket to hold the cuttings.. and an air stone pump in the bottom then up to a series of plastic containers..starting with 12 oz water bottles then on ot 1 and then two liter bottles..

Hi Debra, what movie did you go see? I went two weekends ago and saw New Moon.
Kim

Well, we got it last night. A good old fashioned Frost.
All the green plants are lifelss and limp. The test is on to see if the Tree in pots will make it, they are on the south side of the house, so that is a good thing. But they sure look pitiful today.
Charleen

I also have cuttings in plastic water bottles, six packs, and the bottom parts of the nursery plantpot holders.. I also use plastic cups .. even if they look dead on top if I cant pull them out on a light tug, I leave them in cuz that means roots on the bottom.. I released about 50 lady bugs today and last night in the basement garden..
NOL has lots of leaves and the snowbanks cuttings I took from the mother plant are all leafing.

YOu gonna have a ladybug invasion. They come to my house in Spring and Fall.
Want to be careful, they Bite, I've been told.
I cut that bloom off, it was getting writhered. But I got to smell it and it was so
wonderful.Love that NOL. And such a pretty color. I may try one of those little cutting like Ken had.
RRM

RRM, I have never been bitten by a ladybug, but they sure do a good job on the aphids I have down there. I just can't use a systematic bug killer cuz so much goes outsideinthe spring, I don't want to poison any hummers or butterflys.
Brugs just smell so good, too bad you can't market a parfume called NOL brugmasnisa petals or something like that.

I can see why the ancients used to be afraid to go asleep under. You just want to stay there and enjoy the Fragerance.(?) smell and not leave.
Do you start little short pieces like Ken did? I'm sure you do, you cut just the place where the leaf will grow out, right?
I think I am going to try it.
RRM

Hello, everyone. Looks like this has been a busy thread today.we just finished supper. I still have 3 cuttings to pot up, but I'm out of supplies, until I get to the store on Tues.
Dee

I looked to see if Ken had started a thread on Starting Brugs, but didn't see it yet.
Charleen

He may not, since he showed us last night.
dee

Well, Shucks. I wanted to see ALL the steps.
Charlen

Charleen, he may still do it.He said he was gonna ask Gordo to post her method too.
Dee

Have you tried doing those little pieces like that?
Must be like doing it on the little log. Best I can figure out.
Charleen

No, I haven't tried it yet Charleen, but I have three nice sized cuttings left and I think I am going to try it on one of them
Dee

Charleen The little piece I sent you should be rooting by now... is it?

It is dried up, I put it in the incubator.
Didn't keep it moist. Durn. But those plants you sent wrapprd in the news papers. I planted in a ot and they look great.
The Angel is still hanging and the brug looks great.
So I am happy got over 50%life here. But the little stub dried up.
Charleen

Morning everyone.We have snow and ice this morning.A lot of school closings.Charleen, can I come and live with you til April?..lol
Dee

Good afternoon
I had company yesterday, all day, by 8pm, I was ready for bed, had too get some things done this morning, I fouud aphids on some of my brugs, had to get them off, woke up this morning to snow, I guess it's now winter, usually we might have an inch or two, then we get slammed with 2ft in Feb. that's what happened this year
I got caught up reading all the post, I hope everyone is having a good day
Elizabeth

Hello, Elizabeth. We got the snow to, but not much. It was just very icy out this morning.Yuck on the aphids!Hope ya got them all.
dee

Dee
did you have a sheet of ice under the snow, they closed I-75, it was super slick out, I am glad I didn't have too go out
yes I think I got them all, I use a paint brush, I brush them in a small plastic container of water
Elizabeth

Yes, we had the sheet of ice under the snow. It took my daughter 2 1/2 hours to get to work in Indianapolis.Usually takes her 45 minutesI haven't been out yet, but will be heading over to wait on the grandkids to get home from school, in a little while..At least it's not that far.
Dee

Elizabeth, can you posta a link to Monica's sight. I want to show my DH, how she plants hers, but I can't find her sight..
Dee

Dee
I wish I could post of monica's, it was in the Brug threads, early in the year, the snow has all melted over here now,
look back in some of the threads or try to google it, it might come up that way
Elizabeth

Elizabeth, I will search for it.We still have snow on, but the street in front of the house looks clear. I have to get off of here and get a few things done, before I take off. Hope to talk to you this evening...Later..Bye...
Dee

Debra got some Ladybugs for her Aphids. You all may have to invest in them.
Supposed to get some more rain this week, but no Snow yet.
Charleen

Charlene
Hi, I hope it isn't as cold there as it is here, & guess what it gets worse, maybe not snow but the low temp of 17 degrees
Elizabeth

Ow! guess what I got in the mail??Got to get them in water too.
More brugs. Lord, I just had a mess in the bedroom. Dog had foam tore all over the floor.
Back to what i was talking about. Kim sent me two brug starts and l have to label them.
See what I can do with them next summer.
Charleen

Charlene
I am glad you got 2 new additions, you'll have a yard full of Brugs this summer, how's your baby brug doing? I still have seedlings & a bunch of seeds, I have the perfect spot for them, I have a small freezer in the kitchen, there's enough room on the top of it for 2 mini GH's with the heatmatt, I have started getting the stuff together to mix up the recipe
& I have spray bottles too put it in for the clippings & seedlings
Elizabeth