charles grimaldi...I just bought it thru Logees...I also have an unknown Pink Brug...the nursery guy didnt know the name. Would they not make a winter here in NE Tx:? I live in 8a-7b area. I have the pink one in the ground. Should I just leave it and see? If I do I will take cuttings from it. They root in water or soil? I root hydrangeas (green stem) in water. If I found new growth on the pink brug I could start it. What do you experts think? This is my first time owning a brug.....they are lovely. Take care.
Kelly
Brug question
Kelly If you can take a cutting.esp it your going to leave it in the grounf. Give it lots of mulch and cover when there is a freeze warning at nite you can only kill it once so thats why you want the cutting.
Glory
Nov 03, 2001
Irish,
Well explained. :0)
Kelly
I've had good luck rooting big chunks of stem too, just be sure there's a dormant bud on it. My Jutner orange came back here in zone 7a. It got taller than my house this summer. I leave the stems on it and mulch with lots of leaves. (and I always bring in a cutting) I planted some Ecuador pink, suaveolens white and Frosty Pink in the ground this year to see how they do. It seems like the earlier in the season you can get them in the ground the better they do about surviving the winter.
Thanks you guys. I didnt put my pink brug into the ground until about recently....oh I hope it makes it. I will take a cutting or two for sure now! Thanks!
I personally sometimes grow brugmansia all summer in the ground and come oct or so I pull them up roots and all and pot up for just in case, but only if I really trully want to start early with that Brugmansia as a seed setter.
I talked to Woody503. He is big into brugs here in my area. He leaves his in the ground. Only one was slow to come back from our horrible winter we had last year. At this point I am not going to let my new babies start out a winter unless they are much bigger. Only one fits that category at this time.
Do you think I can leave mine in the ground? San Francisco bay area? Shirley
Shirley, if you are in zone 9 you are in great shape! Cala, i left the stems on mine last winter...for sure looked like napalm hit my yard!! i had a copule of plants (not brugs)slow to come back this year, i moved and it took off, another i put that b vitamin/root stimular on. i know a couple of people around here that pull up their plants and replace them too soon, not really dead just late coming back sometimes.