Anyone want a few seeds?

I just picked 2 pods. Both were on Rothkirch, a really pretty aurea brug.


I could find only 1 picture of it in my photos. This was when it had just opened so it was light. It is a pretty pink that nods and has great tendrils.

I crossed it with my best dark pink. I am hoping for a brug that looks like RK but is dark pink.


So the seeds are RK x (EP x RK)

The second pod is from being crossed with a double pink of mine. Again I am hoping for a darker pink color. Maybe a double that nods a bit. LOL

My 3rd pod was on my best dark pink and was not very big so do not have many of these. I crossed my best pink with either RK or my DP. I labeled it X best pink. A duh moment. LOL. I have no clue.

Hi Kell,
Glad to see you posting. I would love to grow a few, but only if you let me pay the postage. The "duh" moment is also called a senior moment. They happen more often as we age. LOL. I love the slight skirt separation on that double pink of yours. Your own cross? A working name?

How's the weather treating your Brugs? I spoke to my Mom who lives in Fremont. She said the forecast is for temperatures of 23ºF+ within the next few days. Unusual to say the least. We got down to 25ºF on Friday. Fortunately, my Brugs were in the greenhouse by then and the one in the ground is covered by a mini-greenhouse.

I would love to have some of your seeds. Are you in the address listing? I will send you a SASBE with postage to send them to me. Thank you for your generous offer.

Tami :)

Gosh, you made me run to the forecast, Veronica! LOL I only see tonight at 32 and then 36 degrees Tuesday and 40 and over for the rest of the week. Where did your Mom see this? I did see there will be snow in Sacramento.

I have been falsely lulled into thinking we would not even get frost this winter. I have never had brugs blooming in December before. My EP is even in full bloom today! I have buds on so many.

I spent the day dragging in so many brugs and other tropicals into my hoophouse. I have so many that do not fit. Shoot. I am making mini GHs with plastic over lots of my succulents. I have many more I must do. Too bad it is so wet. I was thinking of putting sheets over tons and covering that with plastic but with everything being so wet rot will set in easily.

I have so many tall brug trees in front in such big pots I can't move them anyone. I think tomorrow I will cut them at the bases and stick them in water buckets in the hoophouse and hope they root. Shoot. I was supposed to cut them down at the end of September but I was getting so many flowers in Sept, Oct and November I kept putting it off. And they are full of buds and flowers again. Ruthie is just huge. Kills me to cut her down! But last year all my brug trees in the front rotted to about 2 or 3 feet of the ground. Took most of the summer to grow back to 7 to 9 feet.

I so hate winters!

Oh LOL I have been freaking out all day about the weather. Shoot, just 2 more months of warmer weather and I would have been home free.


Email me your address, Tami. I know I have yours Veronica, but to make it so I do not have to look for it, would you please email me again. Thank you both.

PS Veronica, how did you do your mini GH? I need to go get more plastic tomorrow at HD and get some metal stakes.

I'll D-mail my address. Here's how I "made" it (I had help putting it together. Me brains, them brawn.) :-) :
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/1061001/
I bought a roll of 24" wide bubble wrap and used thick plastic bought at Home Depot. If I had thought of it early enough, I would have used greenhouse quality plastic so it would last longer, but as usual ... Greenhouse plastic would have been much thicker and provided more insulation. I really need to pick a builder's brain. I need to know what it would take to insulate against a 10ºF drop in temperature. I had such a difficult time keeping tape on last winter, I did plan ahead and bought greenhouse repair tape, paid a fortune for each roll, too, but I think DH took them to the barn because I couldn't find them last week. Without tape that retains its adhesiveness my mini-greenhouse will fall apart when it's needed the most. Duct tape works, but it looks ugly. I used the heavier weight frost cloth rather than the almost transparent one. I also need to look for large black garbage cans to use in place of the shallow blue mineral tubs. The larger cans will store and release more heat. If FrostPruf really works, I won't need as much insulation. I can't use Christmas lights since I have only one outdoor outlet and I've already loaded it to capacity

Hi Kell, Thanks for the offer. I would love a few of your seeds. I just got a planting thing from Parks that bettydee recommended and am starting to use it...iit has a lot of empty plugs yet. D mail me your address so I can send you postage...and please let me know how much it is as I haven't received anything lately and have forgotten . I'm in the address exchange.
Sincerely. gammy3 Helen Smith

Kell, I would love to grow some of your seeds out. I am in the exchange. Please let me know how much to send you.

Great mini Betty.

Veronica, I hear Freeze Proof is the newest one. I do not know if it really works. I was going to buy some but of course never got around to it. It is 32 degrees here now.

You even use bubble wrap! My husband came home early to put my heater in my hoophouse. And I put that frost cloth all over outside on my favorite plants. I even covered my new South African bulbs I am so getting into for they are too expensive to lose overnight. I need to go buy more of the frost cover. I wonder if I have the light stuff, I bet I do. Where did you buy yours Veronica, online? I need the heavier stuff.

I did the dirty deed and cut 2 big trees of my double pink but I left the biggest one. I know it will be a goner so I really should have cut it off too. And I cut 2 of my big Ruthie's. But the tallest one was in full bloom! And its trunk is so woody I left it in hopes it can take it. I know, an error! I just did not have the heart.

I moved my Rothkirch who had 3 blooms open so its head is under my front porch roof. Its pot end is hanging out in the cold. LOL. I should have covered it. I must say my RK is the hardiest and healthiest brug I have. It has lived in the same 15 gallon pot with no new soil for about 3 or 4 years. I have left it out in the frost too a year or 2 and it died back but came back with a vengeance. It is on the side of the house so it only gets watered once in a while so abused and misused. I have had this RK since 2002 or 2003.

I have sent out so many little RKs from it. I plan on repotting it in early spring and getting it in growth mode for I have had a few requests for it again from friends. I hear it is once again a very hot and in demand brug! Reminds me when I got this in 2002 or 2003, so exciting! It was $37 and we all thought that was so very expensive. LOL

Anyway, I have such high hopes especially for the RK x (EP x RK) seeds. The (EP x RK) has great color all the way up and such great tendrils. I am really excited to see what we all get from them.

I have 4 requests from here and 3 more people who directly dmailed me and 2 other friends who want them so I best close this offer. I am not in the exchange, so please dmail me your addresses. One pod is still drying out after I washed the seeds. The other was dried on the plant in November for I wasn't watching it to ripen. OOPS! LOL

Thanks

Here is my double pink just before it got cut today. It had some buds and this just opened bloom. I forgot to answer you Veronica. I just call it my DP, my own cross. I haven't named it yet. I am not so into brugs anymore that I get involved in all that. I stopped dealing with them for about 2 + years except to water just enough to keep them alive. I just got back to them when my best pink bloomed so dark and so pretty early this year and gave me such a thrill. I ran out and repotted the many seedlings I had of Delisa's and my own that were languishing in little gallon pots. I have gone on to other new loves but probably will always have a few brugs around.

Kell, I bought a quart of Freeze-Proof to try it, but didn't get a chance to try it yet. It needs to be syrayed on at least 24 hours before freezing weather hits. Since 1 quart of the stuff only makes a gallon of the spray, I waited until I had a calm day. Didn't get one before the freeze. Now, I need to wait until I get help to take the mini-greenhouse off so I can spray.

I purchased a 20' x 100' roll online. It is definitely heavier than what you can get at a box store. When I get back from Austin, I'll try to locate the website. I had it marked, but lost everything when my computer died early this year. I had just enough time to copy personal files and photos. I lost all my bookmarks and passwords.

I finally managed to buy a Rothkirch this spring. I'm too embarrassed to tell you how much I paid for that rooted cutting. I had been after Rothkirch for ages and had to have it. It wasn't over 12" tall. Even DH doesn't know. I had some mad money squirreled away and used that. Anyway, Grasshopper infestations are much worse during a drought and we had a really bad one for two whole years. There were so many of them that they kept my lawn mowed, but also ate everything else. Large Brugs recovered late supper when the numbers of grasshoppers declined, but small plants like my newly purchased Rothkirch were eaten all the way down to soil level and didn't come back. Fortunately, Fleming Island Rachel and Jazzabel came back or it would have been a total disaster.

Gotta go. I'll get that infor later.

kell, I have never tried growing from seed (and don't do much of it) but if you have extra to spare, I would love to try. How many yrs to bloom when planted from seed?

I forgot to cover my C&S and they look horrible. brugs look horrid too but I'm not terribly concerned b/c they are 3 ft or more taller, so they'll come back. Plumies, hibbies, var. banana and some gingers were shoved into garage.

PS: I was just reading Sharon's article about nutmeg. I went googling and learned it takes 15 years to produce fruit when grown from seed. If brugs take that long, I think I will pass, lol.

So far I have had Brugs bloom from between 1 to 3 years that I planted from seed. Most of them did it on their second year.

I can wait that long, but not 15 years, lol!

No, they don't take that long, if they did I would have said forget it a long time ago too.

Do you have any seeds left. if so let me know,i would like to get some seeds from you.if so i will send you a s.a.s.e.




thanks

I would love to try some Kell.. Happy holidays !

Elva

Kell,
After I got home this even, I went through my MasterCard statements and found the vendor of the heavy frost cloth I used. This frost cloth protects down to 24ºF. I chose this weight because it transmits 70% of the light. Berry Hill sells heavier cloth, but the heavier the cloth, the less light it transmits. I had originally bought this to try to protect my Brugs against grasshoppers and felt I didn't want to lose more than 30% of the light.
http://www.berryhillirrigation.com/SPD/gg-34--1-0-oz--row-cover--800017C6-1218134782.jsp?submit=View+Sizes%2FOptions
To see other weights, browse through Frost and Insect Covers.

I have been so busy with our recent frosts and Christmas I have not been back here.

Sadly, even though the seed pod of RK X DP was rotting as it should when ripe, it seems it was immature. The date says it was 2.50 months old so I would think it should have been OK but perhaps because it is winter it did not mature right. At first I had trouble getting the seeds to dry and as they did they were so light weight. So they, break my heart, which was a huge pod, are not viable.

Now I only have the one pod to share RK X (EPXRK) and a few of another one. So I will start at the top of the list and just go down as far as I can. I will dmail when I send them so you know to check your mail. Don't worry about the cost, it will be minimal. I am so sorry if I got your hopes up!

And on a side note, if you haven't tried rockwool to germinate your seeds, you might want to try it! I have always had excellent results with brug seeds and clivia seeds using it.

I am so excited. I got some very special bomarea seeds from a friend that works for the Strybing in San Francisco.

They were 2 kinds of bomarea seeds. I am not even sure which bomarea but I was told 1 set were really special. The germination instructions were so complicated involving weeks in the refigerator, but me being a lazy gardener just put them in rockwool bagged them and put them under my lights. I really thought I would fail with them. Well I just looked and so many are germinating. I really thought I would fail with them. I am so thrilled!

PS

Veronica, please let me know if this new Freeze Proof works! I heard at a nursery there is a new one out that you use in watering and is systemic! Sounds so easy! SO many of my in ground brugs got fried this week, not to mention all my other tropicals I did not have room to save. Maybe I will have an RK for you in summer. Thanks for the Frost and Insect Covers info!!!!

Nery, I have had some bloom late in the same year if I started them in October/Nov inside. And them moved them fast up in pot sizes while fertilizing like crazy. But by the time they bloomed it was late fall and the color was not reliable to evaluate them. Also that Messenger would get them to bloom the first year but it got them to bloom at 3 or 4 feet instead of 6 to 8 feet.

Don't toss your succulents. Some of mine that got so ugly last winter look great by the end of the summer. I was shocked at how well they did.


Hi Elva!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hope you are doing GREAT!

Kell,
I'm waiting for my helper to get over a cold so we can remove the mini-greenhouse and spray the top. It would be so much easier to water one in. Do you know the name of it? I'm such a zone pusher I already have a mental wish list of tropicals I'd grow if these zone extenders work. I'll let you know if the Freeze-Pruf works and if so how well. I have a wireless weather station with 3 sensors, one for each of the 2 greenhouses and a third one outdoors. The last one quit working so I ordered a replacement sensor. It turns out, it wasn't the sensor, but the unit. I had to order a new base unit. When the unit arrives, I'll have an extra sensor which I plan to place in the mini-greenhouse. I'll be able to keep track of the temperatures in there. If the old sensor still works, I can place one under the frost cloth as well. I would love to have a RK. I'll keep my fingers crossed your cuttings root.

The first time I saw photos of bomarea, I fell in love. Then I looked for info on their culture. They would fry here during summer. As with B. sanguinea, I'll have to be content enjoying photos. I'm so glad those little guys are germinating for you. You'll have to make sure your friend retains that job with Strybing. You really need a bigger yard or maybe a 2 story hoop house. LOL.

thanks kell. I'm not touching any of the fried/droopy plants til next Feb/March. But it sure is depressing. How spoiled we've become with our mild winters.

We have had excellent weather here but it never gets cold here till after the holiday. Brugs, plumeria all still in the ground flowering seems like a bonus

Save some for me Kell !!

Danasplants, I am so jealous of your weather. We had an unusually early hard freeze already that cost me at least 10 brug. seedlings that had already Y'd. I just ran out of room in the greenhouse so had them only under the patio cover. We usually don't have our coldest weather until January.

I have taken brugs last year and cut them off at the ground they were big put them in my spare bedroom fully leafed in spring they had dead leaves all over took them out side stuck in the ground and they take off again. I have found piles of cuttings on the side of the road out in the wicked sun here brought them home and they root these are tough plants. As long as you have the woody part they will go lol .I hate to loose any plant to the cold i get frost cloth all summer long I buy blankets and sheets anything I can use.It will get cold here but it will be after the holiday always does thats when we get our worst.