Dee, that will work, I do have my hands full, as I know you do also, they will be ready too plant next Spring, I might have a lot more room also
Veronica, that's very useful information, Thank you for helping Debra & all of us out, I have a big problem with white fly's in the basement, I am going too use Murphy's oil
soap mixed with water in a sprayer for them this year, I am also going too strip the leaves & spray the whole plant with neem oil before I bring them in, I am going too check to see how warm my Basement stays, Hey I have better windows this year, so I might keep a couple growing, you're right about the spidermites.
I hope things slow down for you
Hi Ken
Elizabeth
Miss B. Havin Brugmansia
Pink Smitty is setting a bloom. should have picture before too long.
Will start taking EE up tho.
Charleen
Charlene
I can't wait too see your Pink Smitty, I just dug mine up it's still small, so i would love too see what too expect? our forecast
changed, I am so glad, toward the weekend it will be 72 degrees during the day & 50 degrees at night, so that give me some more time for a few too Bloom but I will be taking up the ones that don't have any Buds
Elizabeth
Lucky you, Elizabeth.We have a frost warning for tonight, so I have been getting the rest dug today.I am leaving 2 or 3 in the ground, and will try covering tonight because they have loads of blooms..It might work..lol Just taking a break before bringing the rest of the plants in that are staying in the sun room, for a while.Several tender perennials, that I am not ready to give up the blooms on yet...lantanas, begonias, pandorea, etc.
I better get back out there!
Dee
I went out and you will have a picture here in a bit.
Pink Smitty
Here is the little plant.
but so pretty.
Charleen
Charleen,your Pink Smitty is beautiful.How's the fragrance?
Here's a pic of the sun/plant room.I am running out of room, already.Still have plants throughout the house and lots ready to go to the basement.The only two brugs that I have in there right now are Naughty Nick and Peaches & Cream. Will have several cuttings soon, tho.
Dee
Charlene
your Pink Smitty is Beautiful, now I remember why I wanted it, it's a double, you have done a great job with your Brugs this year
Dee, that plant room is Beautiful, I see P&C Blooming in there, you are so far ahead of me, you have a good assortment of plants, this week I will get with it, the end of the month I am getting the guy at window world to measure 2 windows on the back porch, by the time it gets really cold all 4 of them will be done, extra space for plants, I want too keep Superspot &
Angels moonlight growing, I am just so proud of you, that plant room is as good as a GH & it's attached too the House even
better
I should have photo's in a few days of NN & Santa Rosa it has more Buds that should be open, oh I got 3 more figs, I do hope the rest of them get ripe, I have too cut the Fig back too put protection on it, I hope too get the cuttings too take root
Elizabeth
In this pic, you can see Naughty Nick.It barely fits, touching the ceiling, but I want to see it bloom, and we are supposed to get a frost tonight.He will be going to the basement after he gets done blooming.
Dee
Thanks, Elizabeth, I am really going to enjoy it this winter.I will have to move them all around, when I turn on the heater, and to get to the windows to put plastic on.
Yummy, figs. I do love them.Maybe next year, I will find a fig tree. I have been watching for one.
Dee
Dee
that's an even better photo it really shows the space you have, if the clippings off the Fig do root you can have one or 2
it's the Brown Turkey Fig, your NN is Huge, I can see that you will have too cut it way back, it looks really heathy, when it Blooms you're going too love it, mine has a bunch of Buds, it would be nice if both ours Bloomed at the same time
do you have a Jo anns fabric store near you? you can get really thick plastic, that's clear by the yard, if not they also have it
at Walmart in the craft section, it makes your windows like double pane, also you can let the light in, that's what I had over my widows before I got new ones, it really help last winter, when it got so cold, oh did I tell you I have rooting powder for shrubs, I got in a co-op last year, that should work on the Fig clippings, we'll see
I wish I was as organized as you are
Elizabeth
Charleene your Pink Smitty is gorgeous. Dee, your room looks like my room, stuffed!
Howdy Elizabeth.. getting down to 40 tonight here, Sis and I worked hard all day yesterday and today, she leaves in the am when I go to work, and then I have a few days left of non freezing temps to get the rest dug up, potted or packed for transport.
This is really happy in the room that used to be my sons..
Debra
that is so pretty, you also have a nice space for your plants for the winter, I just got about 30 free flowerpots, I have friends that go too the flea market every weekend
that are on the look out for Flower pots for me, I sure lucked out this weekend, so now I have just got too get some potting soil & I am set
our temps are going too start getting better for the rest of the week, by Thursday it will be back up too 50 degrees at night
I thought daylight savings time was the end of the month, but it will be November 7th this year
Elizabeth
I have gone thru the potting soil this year too Elizabeth.
DH said 60 bags. i know there was a lot.
Thank you all, If I get cuttings you know i'll share.
Debra, that is cute bloom. NN is a bad boy, look it how tall????
Charleen
Very pretty Dee.
Thanks, Elizabeth.I would love one of your fig cuttings, if they root. I didn't know that there was a special rooting powder for shrubs.I hope it works for you.
It would be neat if our NN's bloomed at the same time. If you would have seen NN, before I scalped him, you would have thought that he looked awful...lol
Debra, I can't wait to see pics of your plants in your plant room. You have so many nice ones.Beautiful MG. Is it rose silk? If so, I grew it one year.I loved those huge silky blooms.Now, I just grow Heavenly Blues, but I didn't get those in this year.
Charleen, I'm not sure, but I know NN is over 6 ft.tall.I'm not sure how high the ceiling is in the sun room...but it isn't very high.
Dee
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He will be bending, poor thing. Til you give him a haircut. ☺
Charleen
My Kaitlyn and Flamenco are definitely going to need a haircut, they are both way taller than my ceilings, I am going to cut them at the base, make new standards, save the root balls and give away cuttings to anyone that will pay for postage. Cherub will be done the same way, she has four stalks, all loaded.
Dee, I am gonna have ta fix yer morning glory inventory LOL
Debra, it will be great to have beautiful MG's again!I have lots of spots for them to climb, here, and love them, because they give you lots of bang for your buck!So easy. Thanks, a bunch!!!
I want to get the old aquarium cleaned and set up for brug cuttings this year.Right now, I still have too much going on outside.We have had a chance of frost, the past 2 nights, so I have been covering the last 4 brugs that I have in the ground.They were just to close to blooming to dig.NN and P&C were/are planted in pots. Thats why I went ahead and drug them into the plant room, and they are much to heavy for me to drag in and out.
Dee
Debra
I would love too have a Cherub, for Postage, just dmail me your addy. I have Kaitlyn, isn't Flameco Pink? if so I have enough Pink, I need more yellow ones, they had Cherub for sale at Park seeds a couple years ago, it looked Red
so it must be a Dark Pink, I am leaving my Angels exotic, Rossala, NN, & miss B.Havin in the ground the rest of the week
then I will dig them up, I want too see more Blooms
Dee, I love an aqariums for clippings, I am also getting a Bubbler, so I can keep some in a five gal, bucket, I want too see how long it takes too root them that way
Elizabeth
Does the aquarium or bucket need to be covered a bit to increase humidity or would that also increase the chances of mushy stem syndrome (for lkack of another term)
Elizabeth, I plan on getting one of those long bubblers, for the aquarium.And trying to figure a way to hold the cuttings up-right and separated.I'm thinking maybe styrofoam sheets wedged in, and take a hole saw and cut out holes to stick the cuttings thru, then I can cut it apart once they get decent roots. Not really sure yet.
Debra, I'll be happy with any cutting that you care to add to my box..lol I thought I had enough pinks, but now I don't think I'll ever have enough..lol I have enjoyed the brugs soooo much this year. If ya need some postage, just holler.
Dee
Dee,
That sounds like a great idea. I have a piece Styrofoam about 1/4" thick x ???14". I ought to be able to cut out holes as you suggest to hold them upright. I think I have a 10gal aquarium in the basement too. If not aplastic bucket will surely work. I'm getting excited about rooting rather than rotting this year!!
Sheri
Dee
that's what I thought, about the pinks, but I have them everywhere, Girl I did get with it today, I dug so many Brugs, I was running out of potting soil Bags, I also got rid of 5 houseplants today, less too care for, for the winter, my friend came over for a visit, she couldn't believe, I was giving her some Beautiful plants
Sheri
a 5 gal Bucket with about 5 inches of water, with a Bubbler can keep your clippings all winter,it will keep them from rotting
you just have too make sure you replace the water occasionally, then you can just plant them in the Spring, I sure hope that helps you
Elizabeth
I have a bubbler ready, that I don't use in my aquarium, for my babies!
I use rocks in the bottom of my bubbler tub, and those hanging wire baskets that they sold in the early summer to put pots in.. you know the cheap ones, i hang them all to make a wire web sort of, between the rocks and the wire holders they stand up pretty good. Cut up kylies pink from Bonnie today. *sigh*
I have a nice CG cutting rooted already in a tomatoe paste can.. LOL seriously, this thing just might bud out soon!
Here is a box of stuff getting ready for send outs..
Here is a little Peach Versi, for whoever wants this one. It is well rooted.
My mess is growing, this is on top of the micro wave.. the bubbler is still outside, full of long cuttings.
I told hubby I was going to grow as many small plants as possible and take them to Dutch's Nursery this spring and see if they want them. They were selling daturas as Angel Trumpets this year, and my daughter was all excited because she had a triple purple Angel trumpet, it upset me to no end they were advertising them that way. Anyway, I have so many NOID cuttings, I thought what the heck, lets get Wichita into brugs.
These are the few that are in, I have a whole room full of them. After they are all in, I am taking inventory to see what I have. This is an ugly old spare room, the main room is getting nice and full, but my camera ran out of battery power.
Yes, Charleen,will be getting a haircut soon. He has dropped 9 blooms since yesterday morning. Nice big fat buds, some even beginning to open.I'm sure it is due to temperature and lighting changes. Right now, he still has several left, and some just about there. I will take a pic tonight.Right now, we are getting ready to take off for Indy again, for DH follow up to his cataract surgery.
Sheri, you are going to love growing brugs. It hooks you, before you even realize what's got a hold of ya..lol And if ya do have any problems, Elizabeth almost always has the answers.She knows her brugs.
Elizabeth, I know your friend must have been tickle to pieces. You do have some beautiful plants!
Debra, your plants always look so happy in your basements rooms.As far as having an ugly plant room...there is no such thing...it just aint possible.My sun room floor needs lots of work....It is concrete and has a bad crack across it.It needs somework to level it up, and could use painted, but I kinda like the idea that it is bare concrete...don't have to worry about water spills, etc.We brought an old rug from the other house that used to be in the basement..We had planned on burning it, but it is perfect for keeping granny's feet warm in the plant room...lol Can't ruin it with dirt and water, since it already is sooo stained up..lol.
That plant box looks scrumptuos (misp, I'm sure).What is that cool variegated plant in the first pic?
Dee
Good evening everyone
Debra, you plants rooms always looks good, you sure have been Busy, I have been too, I got a bunch dug yesterday, you
wouldn't believe how bad my street looks, they have this big track hoe that pulls up the street, a guy went down the street
with a cement saw, cut a path, so they could then pick it up with the track hoe, then thy dumped a bunch of gravel on the street, I am so glad our garage is on the back street, or we would have too park about a block from our house, I'll be glad when they're done, they will be working on it for the next couple months, but the we'll have all new sewers, new side walk
then, they're going too resurface the street
Dee
sometimes, I know my Brugs, Thank you for the compliment, you know the pretty red Bouganvilla, I gave that one up, & the white one, a varigated dracena, bay leaf tree, & a Bird of paradise, but I did get about 30, 3gal flower pots, I had too drill holes in the bottom
Sheri
you'll have more Brugs, than you know what too do with
Elizabeth
Oh poor Elizabeth, I know your pain. They did that to us about 4 years ago. We had to walk three blocks to get home. It seems the whole of wichita is that way too. Every morning is a new adventure as to what street exit is blocked. Sometimes I feel as if I am a pinball in a pinball machine track there are so many cones and barriers set up.
Sherry, I am going to send you some of these brugs. Most are ready to pot up with roots. Gonna need your address again, I know I had it once.
Dee, I like simple.. spills, leaf droppings, I just drop and then once every other night I sweep up and spray with a cheap disinfectant on the concrete floor. I am surprised there are not any bugs so far. I keep looking. I do strip leaves off of the brugs and coleus if I see bugs at the start of bring in. I use a hot water and soap soil wash in the sink and spray the top of the pot soil with a mix. So far I have been seeing dead rolypolys and dried up snails. YAY!
I am concerned about my cassia alata tropicman gave me when me and Bonnie went to visit him. They need ants. I am going to stick him back out for a few days since it is warmed up a bit. Hibiscus are going crazy blooming 5 to 6 buds a day down there.
Charlene, please watch your mail next week. I am sending you the calla lilly bulbs, and the lime zinger baby. They are going out Monday.
Dee, that varigated plant is a banana musa. It has your name on it. Mine grew all winter in the basement.
Debra
tommorrow, I'll post photo's of the day Blooming Cerus, it sit outside all summer, it only Bloomed 1-2 Blooms, when I brought it in the house, when we had a chilly night, put it in fornt of the windows, now it's all Bloomed out, it really surprized me, it's fragrant
the city has been talking about doing what they're doing for 3 yrs now, we do have parking in front of the Garage, it's back of the house on a different street, it will be nice when they're finished
isn't it nice too have cement basements? I just knew when I put all my plants, down there the first year we lived here, that I would find them dead, I was amazed what a few lights can do, I am going too try my Bananas in the ground, cut the stalk
off, then put those rose covers that's foam over them just too see if they make it
Elizabeth
You let me know how they do, I tried that with brugmansia rootball Jean Pasko last year and the year before, but uncovered them too early and they froze in early spring. One was by the dryer vent outside, piled high with leaves and plastic and a heavy moving pad. The other was under a two foot pile of leaves, plastic and two blankets, and when I uncovered it, it was still alive, but it froze with a late freeze. *sigh* I am always in a hurry to get things going outside in Spring. I brought in my prized hibiscus two weeks ago, and left one out to brave the low temps, and brought it in a few days ago. The one who got "cold" now has yellow leaf drop. I guess it proves my theory of bringing them in when the temps are the same out and in.. It still has buds, and will bloom, but the cold shock threw it into temporary dormancy I think..
This Macho Fern will go thru leaf drop.. DH likes it out there and thinks it will be fine , it went dormant in late winter, but came back twice as strong.
Elizabeth, it will be so nice, once they get done with your street.Lets just hope that they don't drag it out all winter.Yes, I love the concrete floors, for the plants.I was going to leave the black thai banana in the ground along with the musa basjoo, because I read that they are pretty hardy, but when I went digging for a pup, I had to dig it almost all the way out to get one...they come off the bottom of the mother plant...so I took off the pups and potted up the momma to go to the basement.I just removed all leaves and left the stalk, which cut the height down a lot. I know your friend was thrilled.I thought the red Bouganvilla was just beautiful.Are they picky plants to care for? I have seen them for sale, but passed them by as I know nothing about growing them.
Like Elizabeth said, Debra, your plants always look great! You got the touch, girl! Thanks, soo much Debra, for the musa. I just love big plants, and variegated plants...well, I just love plants period..lol I'm glad that I'm not the only one thats always in a hurry, in the Spring.We just need to see those beautiful new green leaves, don't we ladies?
Sheri, I will have a big box of cuttings for you too. Yes, you will have more than you know what to do with. If you get more than one of the same brug , it is a good idea to try to root them all, because we have all lost cuttings. It just happens.
Dee
Debra & Dee
good afternoon, I will keep you both updated on how the Bananas do this winter, here is some Blooms of the Day Blooming Cerus, it is fragrant, I just got in touch with the Conservatory, I told them Tuesday of next week, I could bring the plants too them, a lot less I have too deal with
Dee, the Bouganvilla will go dormant in the basement, lose all it's leaves, then in February start getting new ones, that's when I start too use fertilizer on all my plants, MG, I use one half tablespoon per gal of water, that gives them a head start
for the Spring, this year at Lowes they had a price of $69.00 for one that wasn't as big as the one I had, my friend & his wife loved it, they have a GH built onto their house, so it will probably Bloom for them a lot longer than in the basement
anyway it found a good home
Elizabeth
Same plant different view
Elizabeth
another view
Elizabeth
Hey! you all I will check the mail. I got some b'day presents today. So guess I'm still celebrating.
got a bunch of plants brought in. In the retreat, got it cleaned out and replaced plants
I am still bringing plants in, so I am not finished.
Charleen
