These are my BF's Brugs they are growing better than mine this year, she is doing a great job with her's
Elizabeth
Blooming Brugs
Looks like your friend sure knows what she's doing! How pretty!
Elizabeth, I have some bad looking leaves on some of mine .Seems like every morning I find a new kind of catapiller. I never knew so many critters liked them.I have found grasshoppers too. I have a couple that have really curled leaves also.I'm wondering if that might be broad mites??? I need to get to Home Depot and pick up some spray.
Dee
Dee
Hi, Broadmites, make the leaves look awful, I am fighting them with forbid, I went out & pulled some of the leaves off some of mine, they look like they are super small leaves, i really need too post a photo of them, too make sure it's not something
else, I am sure Veronica would know the difference, the leaves just don't look healthy, some are in the ground, some of them in pots, the Brugs right next too them look perfectly healthy, then a certain one looks unhealthy, I don't get it, before I had the collection that I have now, I never had a problem, I wonder if a certain bug can cause this?
Elizabeth
Elizabeth, I pulled off some leaves too, cause they looked so bad.I have the same thing as you, as far as the plants right next to the ones with the bad leaves, look great. I would love for you to post a pic, and to see what Veronica, and the others have to say.
Dee
Dee
i will post a photo tommorrow, just too see what everyone else thinks of these bad leaves, if forbid don't help them. I have no idea what will
Elizabeth
I have had the same problem Ladies. it is weird.
Good afternoon, here is the photo's of the weird looking leaves
Debra, I am sorry we're having the same problem
another one, everything I have read say Broadmites
Elizabeth
Morning dew dripping from the bloom of Tropical Sunset. Got a slight blush too.
Charlene
How pretty, I am so glad you have Blooms, mine haven't done really that well this Summer, hopefully they will do better as soon as it cools off some, it's good to see you BTW
Elizabeth
I don't have very many but that one was there for us this morning.
Hugs, Elizabeth.
Charleen
Elizabeth, I believe you are correct, Broadmites, and Forbid is my drug of choice. They can be hard to control. Years ago when we pushed our Brugs with fertilizer we were always having Broadmites, then we stopped using fertilizer when I started composting so much it became unnecessary. Now we seldom ever have them, then again, most of our Brugs are planted in the ground and we lost a good many to the extra cold Winter we had last year.
Charleen, it is so nice to see your blooms, you are making us all proud. I just wished it would cool down just a little here, we seldom even get morning dew, now that's bad.
Ken
Thank you so much, I have some that are planted in the ground, that had the same problem, that's what I thought it was, I'll
keep spraying it with forbid, it's awful when someone loses their Brugs for any reason
Elizabeth
Elizabeth,
It looks more like magnesium deficiency. Check magnesium deficiency in this link:
http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/hort/consumer/quickref/fertilizer/nutri_def.html
In the few times that my Brugs have gotten braodmites, the small leaves and the new growth tip get grossly distorted and thick. Twice, I've had 3 Brugs develop symptoms almost identical to broadmite damage, but I couldn't find any broadmites even with my loupe. Each time it turned out to be a pH and magnesium problem.
Since Forbid is so expensive and overuse can very quickly lead to its resistance by the mites, check the undersideof the affected leaves with a good 10X jeweler's loupe. If you don't find any broadmites, check the soil pH. It should be between 5.8 and 7.0 for good nutrient absorption. It does take a while to correct with additives. Leaching with lots of water helps if the problem is salt related.
What you want to avoid is mite resistance or you will have to go up to a different and possibly stronger miticide. If you have to use Forbid, be sure to repeat the application to get any eggs that hatch and before they have mated and produced more eggs.
Elizabeth, Veronica may have something here. If you have been using Forbid and it has not solved the problem, something is wrong. I have never had Forbid not work on mites and you can usually see a difference in a short amount of time.
Veronica
Thank you so much, I thought you might know what too do if you got too see the leaves, I'll check the soil, add some nutrients hopefully the leaves will straighten out,
Elizabeth
I thought you might like too see my Blooming Brug, This is Miss B Havin
Elizabeth
Another View of Miss B Havin
This is one of my Favorites, it has a great scent
Elizabeth
what else is Blooming, I love the color on this one
Elizabeth
my best ever Flower, she turned 9yrs today, she got too go to Chucky cheese to celebrate, then came home to her Bday cake, she's my youngest of 8 GK's
Elizabeth,
Please tell your Granddaughter-
Happy Birthday from all of us!
She sure is a sweetie and getting prettier everyday!
Hugs,
Karen
Elizabeth,Love,love ,love Miss B`Havin, your picture is gorgeous!
Your doing a great job with her!
Karen
your's is nice also, it's taller than mine, but it's a must have for anyone's collection, I am glad you got too see mine in bloom
Thank you for the nice comment
Elizabeth
Miss B Havin is gorgeous. I still have not seen a triple bloom in real life.
Your GD is a cutie. I bet she just loved Chuckie Cheese, and I am glad it was still open for her to celebrate. I think we are losing ours here in Wichita.
Elizabeth, my Elizabeth is blooming again. So is Kaitlyn.
We got in in Fayettesville, Ga. Bring her down here, Elizabeth and I can come visit.....
Charleen
Debra, I am glad you have Blooming Brugs, my Elizabeth & Caitlyn do better when it cools down, Thank you for the nice comment on my GD, she loved her bday party, that Miss B Havin is so special because Brenda Delph crossed Brugs too get that one, Seedsprout Nursery was her's, I really miss her, so I really baby Miss B Havin, it's nice too see you
Elizabeth
Charlene
good idea, if I had the time, I would love too visit you, my GD loves too go on trips out of state with me, last year I took her to KY with me she loved it, it's good too see you here
Elizabeth
I have had a problem with american pride and angels swingtime sprayed them with a few different things finally pulled the leaves of and they seem to have come back descent . We are finally getting some decent rain they all seem to take off with the rain. I have a few more beds to make I put chicken manure and 2 ft of soil on that when there roots hit that its turbo charged lol Next month it should start to get a hair cooler here and everything should start blooming. Heats been unbeliveable here this year. Lots of buds just have to wait
I had to transplant my Elephant Ears. Can't remember but some plant friends sent it has several youngsters there in front. Sure looking better. I got it in an old kitchen sink I found. Keep it damp now!!!!
Hugs Elizabeth, it is always a pleasure to visit and see everyone's blooms.
Charleen
Beautiful blooms, Elizabeth! Especially,your GD!
Charleen, your EE looks happy now! Lots of babies. My EE Elena (colocasia), has lots of babies like that .Maybe we could swap a baby, or 2 after it cools down. My Illustris(like yours in the pic) wrotted away over the winter.
Most of my brugs are finally looking pretty good.You can bet I will have them in the ground a lot earlier, next year. I finally started setting the sprinkler on the bed out back. It was just taking too long to water everything.They seem alot happier,(altho, I still have 2 or 3 with funky looking leaves) now that they are getting good deep soakings.
Dee
My triple-purple Datura id outdoing itself after a slow start (don't they always?). It is now huge!
Now it is covered in blooms--and, finally so is my yellow one--that had a rough start.
Gita
Here's a closer up pic.
This is a NOID pink Brug....
It kind of scares me--as to how big and full it has grown!!!
At the end of last year--it was a tall, single stem--with beautiful leaves on it. I kept it by my kitchen door all winter--and it had one bloom....
Now this! and I have 2 other big ones----another pink NOID--and my Dr. Seuss....
My "Maya" from a cutting just last year growing fast----Mamma Mia!!!!!
Think there will be a lot of cutting back going on.......just no room in my small basement......
Gita
Adora had this marvelous bloom on her this morning.
Good Morning
Everyone's plants are just beautiful, look at all those Blooms, I love looking at photo's, most of my Brugs are yet too Bloom
Naughty Nick must be over 10ft tall, it has small buds on it, I'll have too get the ladder too get good Pic's of the Bloom
Rosalla keeps dropping buds, my Elizabeth something is making the top leaves look like swiss cheese, I have tried too catch what's doing it, but so far can't
Elizabeth
well Elizabeth...
Dollars to doughnuts it's a tiny caterpillar... likely green... the same color as your leaves.. [ makes it harder to see indeed ] it can eat a tiny hole in the newest leaf and as they grow out the hole grows with the leaf and the mature leaf has a bunch of big holes...
Look for it in the tuft of new leaves at the top of the plant... mine often lay in a vertical position... along the tinyest of the new leaves.. which emerges vertically also... the last leaf starts out about rolled up ... that cat's right in there too...
there are other browner ones here also... but this is the one that is doing the most damage.. and is the hardest to locate on the plant... till you look for it inside the top tuft of leaves at the tip of the growth...... look for them there... and let me know if you can see them there
Gordon
Thank you, I have too water today, I will look for them right before I water, I'll let you know if I find them, I did find a big green one it almost ate up all the leaves of a small Brug before I found it, we have the bigger Brown ones also
Elizabeth
Elizabeth - that Miss B'Havin is absolutely jaw droppingly stunning. I could see a few other blooms on that plant too. It must be awesome when there are lots of blooms on her.
Sheri
Gita, I guess nothing anyone has said about naming an unknown Brug has made a dent in your thinking. I see you are still calling your unknown variegated Brug 'Maya'. Would you at least do the Brug community a favor and don't send out any 'Maya' cuttings.
Elizabeth, you have my sympathy on fighting those tiny green caterpillars. I had one on Katie's Sweet Sixteen who left me with 2 sticks in 2 days before I found it. Your Miss B'Having is gorgeous. On mine, which I also bought from Brenda, that first outer skirt is always a short little tutu.
Veronica--
I have NO cuttings to send out of my "Maya"......Not this year....Perhaps next?
Several people have them, though, from previous years--and they all call it a "Maya" as well....
Do you really want to contest all the Brug owners here to see if they have named their Brugs correctly???? That would be impossible! Why just the battle with me?
I cannot understand WHY you keep insisting that it is NOT a Maya--based on the fact that the man I bought it from had named it something else (Cream Parfait)! He may be the ignorant one! What if it was a "Maya"--and he simply did not know it? Where did HE get it from??? Like in the many sharing we all do here?
I will be glad to send you a cutting next fall that you can grow out and see for yourself.....
Perhaps he had no good source to ID it! And just went with a name someone else gave him?
I understand your obsession with the proper names---but it just does not exist in all the other Forums....
I have DG--and I am satisfied that it is either a "Maya"---or a "Peaches and Cream"....
Since i took the time to try to ID it --and it was ID's as a "Maya" on DG--I am not going to assume it is not!
I am also not going to assume that it is.....It is just the name I know it by--and the name everyone i have given cuttings to--knows it by.
Frankly--I am tiring of this discussion.....Sorry!
I am sure I am NOT the only person on DG that has Brugs that do not suit everyone as to what they are called....
I apologize for the harshness of my reply--but I am sure many others here have Brugs they call by names that would not pass the "white glove" test...
Perhaps I should just stay out of the Brugmansia Thread......Nowhere else have I been so countered as to the name of any Brugs I have shared.....No one else seems to mind......They just appreciate what I give them....
Respectfully, Gita