Dana, do your plumerias bloom year round in the greenhouse? I know nothing about them, except they are beautiful.
Debra, right now, I have those 3 that are surviving.If they continue to do so, I will be happy to share cuttings, come summer. I have lost Maya, NOL, and Angel's Moonbeam(or was it Sunbeam??...lol) I have lost a couple other's, but these three are the ones that I'm most upset about.
Dee
Merry Christmas and Thanks to all
With the plumeria its not too bad you dig up the whole plant roots and all and store it were it won't freeze. Or I plunge the pots plant pot and all. In that case you dig up the whole pot and store it If the have a inflo ready to flower they will continue if there in a pot. If you dig them up bare root you lost the flowers. I bare rooted half the day and stored away we are in our coldest weather here. Lost plants ebay has someone from here selling cuttigs 3 for 3-4 dollars nice cuttings I am hunting verigated brugs cuttings I did a few trades here but most people don't even bother to answer you back about a trade. Whats the point of filling out the information it you don't answer anyone back I don't get it
I can trade you a Maya, Dee and Dana, I would wait until closer to spring since they are just growing back out from the last cuttings.
Char how is the Maya doing I sent you?
Others on the lost list...:
cypress gardens, wretched mess, Native Habitat..*sniff* Sniff.. I figure, if they didn't make it it was meant to be for me..
Joeswife i can split what I have and give you native habitat its rooting now thanks. One of my seedlings
awww you grew that from a seed? I can't seem to get my plummie sticks to do anythng here in the summer..
Oh, Debra my maya is in Brug heaven. but I have a Super Nova if it makes it. I got Adeline, Kim gave me a Cherub and it has some wonderful roots on it and I planted it in a little pot. Didn't water, just planted. I have to make a list for you all but I want t wait til I know they are going to live. Is that silly???
Dana you won't have trouble here. We talk to each other about what we have and what makes it and what doesn't.
Debra, losing the Maya was MY FAULT, I left it in water too long. Bet I don't do that any more. I have most of them In soil and about doz. still needs to be planted. I'm getting better. Ken gave me some that I cut into three pieces and was cringing eveytime I made a cut, but finally got them potted. Been very busy this last couple of days.
Hello Dana, nice to see a new face here! Stick with us and in spring/summer we can trade a lot. I have brugs for a few years now. 3 the same one. But I got struck with te virus last summer and got a lot of cuttings. Mine weren't big enough to take cuttings of for the ladies here but next spring that won't be the problem anymore I suppose! I can trade a lot then.
What kind of vines do you have. I have a lot of tropical plants. Too bad we had a powerfailure a little while ago when there was severe frost and a lot of my plants look bad. Today I took a closer view and I hope most of them will make it. I hopen I don't loose more than 10%.
I also have a few plumeria's. I kept those inside the house because it gets to moist within my greenhouse and they wil rot. They lost their foliage and I never seen them bloom before but I hope this year because they have a nice size now.
I am also going to sow some seeds of plumeria's. Got a lot of seeds from someone here in the Netherlands.
All of my brugs are cuttings. I was new to brugs this past summer and traded like crazy for brug cuttings.And, several people just shared cuttings, for postage! It is too cold now,to ship anything in or out, here, but come next summer, I should have lots to share.
Charleen, I still have 3 in water that I change every two days..LOL I need to get those buggers potted up, but they seem to be doing fine. You should see my brug seedlings. They surely do grow fast! I need to pot them up to 2 liter bottles. Might just do that tonight.
Dee
I'm trying to grow nepenthes from seeds. Pitcher plants. I hope it works. Got it in an Aquarium.
got a lot of brugs but have not counted and no names wrote down yet. Lost some too. Just got to wait and see what does what.
Be glad when it is spring and warm again. have most of my in 20 oz. btls. Got a while til spring yet.
yeah, I have lost some too, but I still have plenty. Come next summer, when we know what has made it for sure, you and I will have to send each other a box!!! I have had a couple rot, and some that just dried up and went hollow. I haven't had great luck, with some of the skinny green cuttings, but there's always next year, and we will have plenty to share and swap, right? How are your Misty Pinks doing?
Dee
I counted 59 living leafing brugmansias here in this house today, good grief. I just planted three planter trays made from Big wheel containers ( Ice Cream Sandwhiches) one is full of coleus and cherry tomatoes,
another has candle bush alata, rose of sharon double purple, and tai basil, and the third has 4 blue water lotus, and 4 hardy lotus seeds in them. they fit on the window ledges perfectly.
had a zippered heavy plastic bag from a bath set, so made a tray up of zinnias and marigolds and put them into that to get going. I have mini green houses going everywhere around here..
Debra, I haven't counted my brugs lately.The only seeds that I have started, so far are the brug seeds that I started in November, and a few that Elizabeth sent me. I have more brug seeds to start, and I will start my wave petunias the end of Feb, or the first of March. I plan on having 2 tomato plants next summer, one regular for fried green tomatoes, and a cherry tomatoe plant, so I can eat them as I walk the yard...lol...My husband won't eat tomatoes...he's a little strange...lol.
I love growing from seed, but our yard isn't that big, and most areas are already taken up with plants. I have so many geraniums in the basement wintering over, that I have no idea where I will use them all, but I do like them because they are fairly drought tolerant, and give good color all summer long.Is that morning glories, in the hanging bottle?
Dee
Yes, Dee, morning glorys in the hanging water bottle planters. I love re-cycling things.
You might try the wrap around shoe bag type planters. Or, make your own.. I had a pouch planter across the south fence trellis, and it did remarkably well.
this is the first brug stick I grew, this was spring ( May 2008) I swear it was just a stick! the water bottle planter next to it to the right is full of mg seedlings .. they took over that area behind the brug that year.
here is what it looked like in July..
and here is August 08.. my first brug did not bloom until after I had cut it to bring it in, which is how I came to DG, to learn about brugmansias.. and last year, I grew about 13 of them, and now I have almost 60? good grief..
Debra, I love the pics of your yard! I grow heavenly blue morning glories every year.I really like them, but I wish they would start blooming earlier, than they do. I use anything that I can get my hands on as planters..lol..I bought 6 of those huge plastic totes with the rope handles, this past fall.I would love to come up a way to make them look better, that won't cost an arm and a leg. I might try the stone looking paint, on one...to see how much it takes, to cover good.
Dee
Lee I grow alot of seeds passion flowers and dutchmans pipe the big one has a 2 ft flower looks like a kite. I go on ebay and buy the seeds. Have bamboo I grew from seed.
Dee, that sounds cool, the stone paint. I love taking old watering cans and tea kettles and turning into planters.
Dana, I am glad you like to grow from seeds. I have never tried a dutchmans pipe, but am waiting on some seeds right now.
Dana, I looked up the giant Dutchman's pipe.What a cool plant! I didn't know that bamboo could be grown from seed.I buy most of my seeds on e-bay, now.You can get some good deals..
Debra, I have been saving the styrafoam(misp?) boxes, that my husband's insulin is mailed in.The strafoam is a couple inches thick and about 12 by 18 inches, and maybe 12" high. I need to figure a cool way to use them. Maybe drill holes and use as planters or use them as molds for a concrete border???. They are very sturdy little boxes..too nice to just pitch.
Dee
Is it square, Dee? You could use it under the Hyperturf as a form for a pot. Just wrap it in press and seal. Put the stuff on it.
Love your pic Dana, Beautiful blooms. I am going to try to grow some Dutchman"s pipe, mekos going to send me seed. Never grown them before. So many seeds, just got to get the knowledge to grow them.
Charleen, yes, they are square.Great idea about the hyperturfa. I had forgotten about that.Where ya been girl. I was worried about ya.
Dee
I've been here.Just hadn't seen you all. I went thru some of my cups and the Brug stems had dried up. But got a lot they want to live too. Temp is sitting at 19 degrees and sure am wanting it to warm up. Thank God, we got our furnace fixed or everything would be frozen, including me!! Can't stand the cold. Makes my bones Ache. I get stiff too.
It is 6 here today.You would think that I would be used to this weather,since I have lived with it, all my life, but the older I get, the more I dislike it.I am puttering around with the brugs today.Just moving them around and watering...looking to see which ones I need to move to a bigger size pot..there are several.I think I need to set the fan up again and blow them gently to give them stronger stalks, since some are shooting up taller.....Come on ..SPRING!!
Dee
I will have to go outabout 3;00 to fed the longears. Sure ain't looking forward to that.
But will dress warm and it will be o.k.
Try to stay warm, Charleen. We will be going over to my daughter's house at about 1:00, and won't be back til about 6....I don't go out in this, unless I have to.We have a weather warning for more snow, starting tomorrow...sigh
Charleen, do you have a Misty Pink, thats doing ok? I'm hoping that that one makes for you, cause I'm planning on swapping you out of one, still.I just love the fact that there are so many different ones, and that we all have lots of different ones, growing. Makes them a lota easier to replace...lol I hope that Elizabeth will still want to swap some come Spring also. I hope everything is ok with her, and that she's just busy. Have you heard from her at all?
Dee
Dee. it looks like I may have two Misty Pinks
that have made it so far. Cross your fingers.
I just wen through them I hope the P/C makes it.
I put them in peat and some in soil. The ones in soil look so
much better in the soil.
No, I have not heard from her either.
Hmmm, think I will send her an e-mail tonight, just to make sure all is ok.Glad to hear that the Misty pink is doing ok.I'm gonna have to get off of here and get ready to leave. I will be back on this evening. Hope to talk to you then.
Dee
I'll keep an eye open for your brother, I love to see him waving ☺☺
Ok, I just e-mailed Elizabeth. Hope we hear from her, soon.
Dee
Have you got any new catalogs??? got one from Burgess show a Brug with three colors..Pink, yellow, &white. I bet they put three in a pot of each color. You can't graft brugs, can you????? When I have ordered from this place the plants aren't that large. It has been a long time since I ordered.
Yep, I have been getting lots of catalogs.I love just browsing thru them.I don't know if brugs can be grafted, or not. I haven't ordered from a catalog, in quite a few years. I either place orders with the co-ops here on Dave's or just go to our local nursery if I am looking for something, that I can't find at our home depot.
Dee
I have seed coming I don't even know about. I'm looking but not ordering til I see what I got.
I just hope my brugs make it til spring. The peat I used on the Brugs -DRY.I did not water them.
Potting soil got more plants growing in it than the peat. Most of mine are in potting soil.
Most of mine are in potting soil too, Charleen.I let all of mine dry out completely, then give them a small drink. Have a fan blowing on mine..set on low. So, they won't have weak stems come Spring.I don't know if it will really help them, but I have always had a fan on my seedlings, so I'm doing it for my cuttings too..lol,,, I will sure be glad when I can put them in the ground... a lot less worry.
Dee
Its freezing here again tonight going to have this weather for a few more days thursdays going to warm up and turn colder for the weekend. This is the worst cold winter we have had in quite a few years. Heres a few of mine with some choclate Plants I grew from seed
Hi Dana.Well, your plants look like they are faring well. I feel so bad for you southern folks, having such a cold winter. Up here, we expect it, and are usually prepared, but I know that it must be rough on you all, down south.
Dee
It is a little tough on us this Winter. For the last six weeks it has averaged close to ten degrees cooler than the normal every day. Most Winters we get some days in the upper 60 or so and on those days we open up the hoophouse and let it air out. It has been so cold we can't do that and we have been getting a lot more rain, so the HH is cool and wet. To keep the temps up where I would like them, I would have to rob a bank. I have had a lot more Brug cuttings to rot this year because of these conditions. I have lost several of the new doubles I have traded for and will try to replace them in the early Spring.
Everyone keeps saying hurry up Spring. It's so far off I can't even start hoping for it to come early. Our average last frost is March but I have seen it be as early as Feb. and as late as April. Groundhogs day is almost a month away and that is usually the coldest part of Winter around here. I just hope our wood holds up, our only source of heat in this house. It is free so I have no complaints. I will be building a new wood rack so I can keep it dry, wet wood does not burn very hot.
I agree, Dee, it is too bad the south is getting this much cold. I fear for the plants and animals down there..
Dana those look really good. I have alot of seedlings going right now, mostly vines.
I have alot of seeds I havn't even looked at, not to mention the boxes and bloxes out in the garage and in the trunks of my cars to get stratified, most of which I harvested in the country on my adventures into the native habitats around here. The brugs doing the best as far as sticks and cuttings are the ones in the plastic water bottles and potting mix I made up.
I fell bad for the tourist who planed there vacation spent the money and wake it up to 28 degrees. Today the highs going to be 50 and tomorrow a heat wave 70 then it cools right down again. LOL Ken i have a propane heater by coleman that keeps one of my greenhouses toasty. The other I use a another coleman camping heater uses white gas cost 4 dollars a night for that one. propane costs about the same or little less. Alot better than using electric heaters. Joes wife fear for the people the shelters are full with these times and economy polk county schools have 1500 children registered as homeless. But the plants and animals too. The greeks in Tarpon Springs have a religious ceramony today were all these young boys dive in the water to get a cross that was thrown there. He who retrives it they say is touched by the hand of God. Good luck to those fellows i would die lol
me too! First of all I can't swim. second The ice water would really stiffin me up, can't take the cold anymore. Choclate?, Dana, you got the seeds?? I havea choclate mint that smells deliscious. But a Choclate plant is interesting. Ken I got most of your plants in soil, cut them into smalle pieces, I hope they make it. I have really enjoyed (most of the time) growing them. They are an educational plant, year round. Some I thought were alive was just dried sticks, So got a lot of containers now after I went thru them. I have been spraying them to help keep them going too. It smells wierd but the plants seem to like it.
Dana, that's a lot of homeless children, and there are probably more that they don't know about, huh? My heart goes out to them...These sure are hard times.
Ken, you know that we will help you replace what we can, but it won't be fun starting over with them, will it?
I will try to post a pic of my brug seedlings tonight.Now, I know why people only sow a few of their seeds.There is no way that I will have room to keep more than a couple of each, thru the winter.The first batch, I sowed all I had, which was about 20, and I think they all germinated. I have culled them down to 10, but I am going to have to choose the two best, if I want to start any more. It just makes me sick, because they look so healthy.I have a couple more of another cross that I need to move to their individual pots, so I can use my little containers to start more. They sure grow a lot quicker from seed, than from cuttings..lol
Dee