Brug needs help!

I have a large cutting about 10 inches and rooted fine in water and when I potted it the stems from top are drying up and dying...Anyone know what is wrong? Too much water or should I cut off dying and prep with something to keep from drying?

Thanks for any help you can offer!

Where is Arlene? She is good at things like this. I had one do that to, and still don't know what happened. Wish I could help. Made me feel terrible and helpless when it happened to me. Hope someone comes quickly to help.

Shirley

Cala and others are much better with this stuff than me, my guess is you are right, too much water. that's about the only way i think you can kill a barely rooted brug.

now, don't listen to me, wait for someone else, but if it were mine i would pull it up, put it in dry soil and cut it back under where it is dying.

is it inside? can't tell what zone you are in....

Hi Ya'll,
I am in Alabama...it has been warm here and put it in my greenhouse, sometimes the temps dip into the 40's at nite but not lately and I put it on a drain tray for I thought it would need plenty of water for the roots to stay moist but I removed it recently and still the canes are dying back!

Think I should bring it in the house?

Thanks!

Ima
It should recover. I've had them do this when they were rooted in water. Take it out of the pot and check the roots and the lower portion of the stem. If the bottom of the stem is all mushy or the roots are mushy, cut them off. Stick it back in the water only till little nubs form, then pot it into potting soil.
If the stem and roots are healthy, move it to a shady location for a few days so it can recover from the transplant shock. It should perk up. You can also use a bit of a fungicide on it if you wish.

Arlene...I would do the same.

thanks, Gloria, i hate to tell people stuff. Has anyone heard of sprinking a little comet on the bottom of cuttings when moving from water to soil if they seem kinda icky, after rinsing them off good?

It went to high 30s here a couple nights back in October, i didn't move a thing and everything was just dandy. i think they might like it a little cool. flower colors seemed to change a litle, though.

My rooted brugs , all 100 of them, Glory's and mine are doing really good. I've got them in the greenhouse and I am so glad they don't mind a dirty house cause I really need to clean out the greenhouse throw away broken pots, etc. and make some room. My greenhouse is about the size of a normal utility room in a subdivision house. Not much room, but I am like water, I spread out to every available space but my brugs are croweded but happy.

Roz,
time to build another Greenhouse cause I'm sure I'll have more cuttings for you later. LOL

If y'all don't hear from me again I'm off to WalMart and you know how crazy that place is this time of year.....BYE

My wife let me open up one of my Christmas presents early-bags of fertilizer, fish emulsion, etc from walmart. I am in heaven. Now, if only I could find an inexpensive source for 45 lbs or so of Agrosoak crystals. Always the wanter aren't I? Well, if the truth be known the agrosoak is for my wife. She can't stand me watering the Brugmansia every day and agrosoak is the only way I have found to get around that.

I have been watering mine with tea tree oil water and they are doing very good. I had one that started dying from the top and I cut it off and it lived. So far so good. Brugmansia how many do you have? It dosn't take muc of the crystals for a pot.

Very true HoniBee-but I only grow a few hundred in pots. each year.Most of mine go in the ground. Mix the agrosoak directly in the gound with lots of peat in our sandy soil. I plan on killing most of mine in the ground though. Digging up a 2 ft wide trench and mixing in the agrosoak with peat. Laying the sand around the edges to form a ring...etc. Hoping to not have the well run dry next summer as it did last summer.
Ahh,mix the bone meal in the soil as well before I plant as well, and ironite, milorganite, etc.

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brugman, please tell me best way to ship pollen

Best way to ship pollen is on a cutting with a bud on it. If you can keep that cutting from wilting too much-remove most of the leaves etc you can have the pollen arrive with the flower.

should i take a stem cutting off culebra with bud getting ready to open??????????

Culebra pollen is so fickle...best to send that one on its anthers if you detect any good pollen on it next day air. You could take longer with a stem cutting I am sure-but we all no how pollen goes on some hybrids.