Suzy and I met through email, and she did post on the panhandle swap thread, but if you're not keeping up with that, you may miss her. I'm not going to let her go back to lurker status!! :) come on out and play Suzy!!
say hey to Suzy
Jump right in with both feet Suzy. The waters fine. LOL
Glory
Jan 16, 2002
HEY...Suzy.....Welcome to the Brug gang!!!! Hope to see you at the plant swap in March.
HI Suzy - welcome! Tell us about your brugs
Sorry,didn't mean to do it 2x's
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Hi suzy TURN BACK NOW!!!They have you in their clutches!!!You'll never recover!Your home will never be the same!You'll think ,dream,and speak breeewwwggg.(or bruuuuggggg)All you spare money will go to large pots,fertilizer,and dead fish stuff.Grow lights will suddenly pop up in spare rooms,you'll become a pod squeezer,and bud watcher.....there's no hope.......
Hi Susy,
Glad to have a new brug addict aboard on this forum. Well, if you aren't a brug addict now, you soon will be. Welcome, and have some fun with the rest of us here.
S.
hi Suzy:)
Owen
Hi Suzy, just up the road from you, but i bet you have less frost and can overwinter pretty easily outside.
Hi Everybody!!!!
My name is Suzy.......and I am a brugholic......I don't think there is a twelve step program for what we all have!!
Thanks for this great warm welcome........and please don't be too jealous that I live in central FL and yes my brugs are outdoors, only coming in to a heated space when it gets realllll cold...only twice this winter so far, and they are growing like weeds.
I became hooked on brugs and daturas this summer. Had seen some around Orlando but couldn't find them easily at nurseries or garden centers. And then, there in a Coral glow, were the Ebay auctions of plants and seeds and cuttings....and I went berserk!!!!!!
I discovered Valley Growers (Earl), I discovered Monika from Germany (haven't purchased anything there yet, but I know her plants are there and I want ALL OF THEM).....sorry I digress.....I am in your clutches....I AM A BRUGHOLIC!!!
My spare money is going to bigger (ever bigger) pots and soil and seaweed fertilizer and other things for the plants (which by the way do include plumerias, passifloras one at the moment but lots of seeds of others, and three papaya trees and a few epiphyllums and a Alocasia Amazonica thrown in for good measure)......and then there are the lemon grass plants, the bamboo, the butterbly bushes, lemon verbena, banana plants......
But the brugs are my pride and joy......they totally amaze me, like when I noticed they go to sleep with their little leaves folded up....bought the Preissel book and discovered that's what they do.
My oldest one is a Jean Pasco that I received as a starter plant in August....it is now about 4 feet tall and has 6 buds growing.....so of course I baby it.....getting the fertilizer with the higher middle number etc.
I have at this time basically the starter pack of brugs...Frosty Pink, Jean Pasco, Charles Grimaldi, Cypress Garden, Insignia Pink, Coral Glow, Alba, Versicolor Peach, double yellow ?, Shredded white, Ecquador Pink, Isabella, Peach ?, Second Generation, Coral and a Dr Seuss from Dee.
99% of these were cuttings, but they are growing well, in fact I need to repot some already from gallon pots to 5 gallon. None are large enough for cuttings yet, but I am sure that come late Spring and onward I should have cuttings to trade and help other new brugies get started.
I am always interested in new brugs for postage or trade...I have lots of hot pepper seeds of different kinds and other seeds......I will get a trade list up after next week.
It appears that I am in your clutches, please be gentle with me!!!!!
hey suzy, I'd be real interested in some of those peppers when you get a list. That's my husbands passion!
Hey Suzy.... Welcome looks like you are well on your way great to have you here .
Pete
tig, i have some purple perennial hot peppers, will have seedlings if you don't have this. Sharbot, do you know hot to propogate plumeria?
Hi Suzy - - Glad to have you here. It sounds as though you are off to a good start with your brugs. I am new to the club and I can tell you these people are the best!! There is also so much information available.
Arelene,
I have directions that were sent to me when I ordered a plumeria cutting last fall. If you would like me to send you a copy, I would be more than happy to. It discusses when to cut, what to cut, how to cut, how to plant, root development, when it blooms and winter storage.
Frannie
Suzy - what's a Second Generation? Looks like you've got a really good starter set there - way past starter set. Suaveolens pink is a starter set LOL
tig, i have some habanero & caribbean red havanero seeds. i don't think u can ask for any hotter peppers than those. do let me know and i will send u some seeds.
Arlene.....I propogate plumerias by taking the cutting and burying it about 2/3 of the way up in jungle growing mix with sand worked into it and some vermiculite.......water and then water when the top inch is dry....they don't like wet feet so I do put good drainage in the bottom of the pot. They like sun and some root faster than others just like brugs.....they go dormant in the winter and need to be put up in the colder areas. I find them very easy to root.
Liz.....I received this Second Generation from an Ebay person and I don't recall the picture.....it is somewhere on my computer....I will try to find it......It was very pretty......white with some other coloring....we may have to wait until it blooms :)
Thanks for welcoming into the happy mayhem!!!
Suzy
Hi again Suzy,
I've never seen Coral Glow. Do you have a picture of it also that you could post. I am also starting with Plumeria. Got some logs this fall and planted most of them and now have one with a bud cluster on it. For a plumeria to bloom in Iowa in the winter has to be something unusual.
I too need to know, especially, what to do with them when it is time to bring them inside this late fall.
Thanks........
here is a nice plumeria site, i hope will help everyone. http://www.plumeria101.com/ sorry tiG & Suzy. didn't mean to intrude on ur thread. merely want to help.
scroll down to the url to find the specific info needed on plumeria.
I can't believe I did this.......Here is Suzy, new to the forum, and I'm begging her for help. I should have let her settle in a bit before I started picking her brain. Oh heck, I did it to all of you at some time, I'm sure. Even though most of you were old hats at the forum, I still asked lots of questions. I'm still asking questions. Poor Arlene and Cala get bugged frequently in emails. Suzy, please accept my apology and then send me the information as quick as you can. :-) OOPS!!
Shirley
Thanks MaVieRose for the hyperlink. This is a good site, but sometimes it is good too, getting information from a fellow gardener who is growing the plant.
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Well Suzy, it looks like you held your breath and jumped right in. I told you they are a great bunch of people. They have been such a big help to me whether they know it or not. Sometimes I just read and keep my mouth shut (my hubby would laugh at that). I think this swap meet is going to be alot of fun. Looking forward to seeing you there. Dee