After a very hot summer with few blooms the cooler weather has set in and all the brugs. are in bud. Here is my seedling (Jaycana x The Chief #3) x Angels Swingtime. Her first flush she bloomed all triples and so far this flush has been all doubles.
Finally some blooms
This seedling is L'amour x ( Rub x Rub x Peanut #1). This brug. bloomed all summer with at the most 3 weeks between flushes. It is blooming light pink right now because our night temps. have dropped but this has been a very good brug. and I will be watching to see what it does in the Spring.
And lastly for the time being: Angels Sunrose
Oh Angel is beautiful
Jacayna seems to have a strong influence. It looks like the outer skirt has six petals. Is that particular flower shredded or did you slice into it to pollinate? Does the innter shirt stay a shade darker?
I love the shape of L'amour x ( Rub x Rub x Peanut #1)! What were your summer temperatures like? I'm hoping that one day someone will come up with a Brug that keeps blooming in temperatures over 95ºF. Summer temperatures were exceptional this year, but it is not the first summer all my Brugs go dormant. However, it is the first summer all of them have died down to soil level.
You have two gorgeous seedlings!
Betty, I had cut into the Jaycana x The Chief #3 x Angels Swingtime to pollinate.
We had a very cool June but then it was pretty consistently hot the rest of the summer. Our temps. were ranging from 89-98 most of July, August and Sept. except for one week. Around here if a seedling can't handle our heat, I don't want to work with it. Other than that one single pink I hardly had any flowers over the summer. Salmon Perf. always handled our heat well, so I am hoping to grow that one next year to cross them.
Oh, those are all lovely, Patricia!
Very nice blooms. How's the fragrance on these 3? Annette
Patricia
they're all Beautiful, you have done so well with all of your Brugs
Elizabeth
The Jaycana cross has a nice citrusy fragrance. I haven't detected a frangrance on Angels sunrose and the L'amour cross has a baby powder fragrance.
They are all gorgeous Patricia!
Congratulations!
I like them all! I'm interested in learning how you cross these plants. When you say "(Jaycana x The Chief #3) x Angels Swingtime" and "L'amour x ( Rub x Rub x Peanut #1)", what exactly does that mean? Is the "mother" plant the one outside of the parentheses? Are you taking the pollen from the plants inside of the parentheses and applying them to the mother plant? and then you wait for the seed pod to form?
ShepMike,
The "mother' plant is known as the pod parent and is written first (to the left of the "X"). It is followed by the pollen parent, the plant donating the pollen. If parenthesis enclose a crossed set, such as (Jacayna X The Chief #3), that tells you that an unnamed seedling, from that particular cross, was used in the new cross. In Patricia's cross, she pollinated the unnamed Jacayna X The Chief #3 plant with pollen from Angels Swingtime. Seedlings are not given "proper" names unless they are registered. It helps to reduce the loss of potential names for registration purposes. The working name used is the parental cross. If you have more than one seedling from the same cross, then you use numbers. The same goes if you harvested more than 1 pod of the same cross. The #3 written behind The Chief identifies it as the third pod harvested from The Chief.
To prevent contamination when pollinating, use a new or clean brush for each new cross. You could use the same brush if pollinating multiple flowers from the same plant with the same pollen but to be really certain the cross is true, use a clean brush. A moth could have beaten you to the flower and left pollen from a different flower which your brush could pick up. You can also use Q-tips to apply the pollen. When you have applied the pollen, tie the flower shirt shut to keep other pollinators out. Lastly, tie a tag with the name of the cross around the flower stem.
Moths are better at this than we are. If your attempt succeeded, the ovary will start to grow. Depending on the species involved in the cross, it can take the pod from 3 - 8 months to mature. It is mature when the pod or the stem turns brown.
You can collect, dry and freeze pollen for use later.
These links will be of help:
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/362575/
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/362576/
Patricia, they are gorgeous. I especially like the first seedling.
Bettydee, you said it was so hot this summer that your brugs died all the way down to the ground. Did they come back and bloom for you once the heat died down? BTW, how long does it take for a new seedling to bloom? I'm very familiar with daylily hybridizing, but know little about brug hybridizing. Not that I want to do it, but was wondering what time you pollinate. I know they open in the evening. Do you pollinate when the flower first opens, and in the early evening so you can get to it before the moths? With daylilies it's best to do it in the early morning before the bees can get to it, then cover the pistol with a piece of tin foil. How do you know for sure if a moth did not pollinate your brug first?
Karen
Karen, We had summer weather well into October. Many of my Brugs did not make it. I have a tub full of labels that I removed from the now empty pots. The rest began sending out new shoots from the buried portion of the trunk last month. They won't bloom till next spring or early summer. I'm going to keep the temperature in my greenhouse a bit higher this winter hoping to get some winter growth earlier, but mainly to get some root growth. Besides killing the tops, the heat damaged much of their root system.
A lady I know has one of those flashlights you strap to your forehead because she does her pollinating at night. She pollinates the flowers that have begun to open, but just before the petals have separated. That way she beats the moths to the un-pollinated flowers. Some others I know do their pollinating late in the afternoon. Again before the flower skirt opens all the way. Some go back a day or two later, untie the skirt and add more pollen to the stigma retying the skirt back up again.
If you wait until the flower opens up, you won't know whether a moths has beat you to it or not. That's why you have to get to it before the skirt separates. The main pollinator is a sphinx moth although any moth is capable of pollinating a flower. The sphins moth is fairly large and sounds like a hummingbird.
Veronica
Oh, Veronica, I have seen those sphinx moths and have even gotten some good photos of them. They are quite interesting. I did not know they were night fliers as well. Here's a nice shot of one from last year. Thanks for all the info. Sorry to hear about the loss of so many nice brugs. Did you water them during the heat of summer or were you unable to do that? Was wondering if they died in spite of being watered. I wish you luck with the ones that have come back.
Karen
Karen,
I love that photo. I have a photo of one on a Brug flower.
My Brugs died in spite of being watered although they probably could have used some more. I had back surgery late May and had my ranch helper water for me. He has been helping me out since last October. We have been in an exceptional drought (The worst listed by the USDA) since October 1, 2010 with almost no humidity in the air either. Summer heat started early and didn't let up. We also had 90 days over 100 and the rest were in the high 90s. Poor plants didn't have a chance. However, I have some real troopers. Some made it through the ordeal and have come back from the roots.
Brugs weren't the only plants that died. I lost all the new fruit trees I planted in January and two 200+ year old live oak trees. They were huge — at least 20' in circumference. I would be willing to wager everyone in Texas has lost something to the drought. Just about all our neighbors have sold all or most of their cattle. That's usually at a loss. I sold most of mine in February and am trying to hold on to what I have left.
Right now, I am busy trying to get our house builder to work on the punch list we gave him on Saturday. Then finally after over 13 months, we'll be able to move in. I will go though and make a list of all the hardy name Brugs that survived. I know that some have lost their tags sometime along the way, but most still have their tags. It will be interesting to see what survived and what didn't. I do know that Miss October made it.
Thanks for the compliment on my photo.
That's so sad about the loss of the brugs, oaks, etc. So sad for everyone over there. I have a sister and nephew living in Gatesville, TX, so I know about all the extreme drought conditions there and have been following the news of it. I just came from a visit to their place. Everything is so dry.
Karen