Is everyone? I haven't seen Eric post for quite a while and Cala, tiG, Arlene, you are all being missed. I know Kyle is around as I've seen him post on some of the other forums. Hope you are all okay!!
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Brugie - I don't know about everybody else but I kind of feel between seasons. - A bunch of the brugs are out and a bunch are still inside. The ones outside are bare sticks and so nothing to rave about. The ones inside are starting to be attacked by bugs for the first time all winter. The brugnut here is getting cranky~~
Maybe we better start telling jokes or something. I'm like you, well half way. All my brugs are outside, but they are small. I just had to look out my windows for a few days and our low temps aren't to be below 45 for a few days. Thought it would be good for the brugs to get some fresh air and start hardening off.
Been through the bug problems, but seem to have them whipped for now. Being outside in the cool weather will chase the mites away.
Another something I've been wondering about is the brug society thing. Is it going to happen or what? Been so long since I saw anything about it, I don't even remember the name. :-(
Ms Brugie, it's a busy time. i counted last night, have 45 brugs in the ground. can't count high enough to count the ones in pots.....including seedlings and my extra large pots probably at least 80. need to find homes in the ground for quite a few of them. just got in from a ball game, gone almost 5 hours...this is how i've been spending my time! when DDs games stop, DSs games will start.
Haven't seen Dee either, she stopped by last Thursday, sent her off with a few brugs plus seedlings. was nice to meet her, she looks so young, i guess she is.
Oh Arlene, I don't know how you do all that you do. Lots of brugs and ballgames . . . that sure takes a lot of time. Do you keep your brugs in the ground all year? Even if you do, you still have a lot to take care of in pots including your seedlings. And beside the brugs, I know that you have your other garden items. You sure are a busy lady! Your place will be beautiful this summer and smell so good.
I'm here, just been really busy with getting my mom's house clean for my son to move in. (mom is ....well.....a slob)
I was actually here for an hour today posting my head off, just in other forums:)
It has been quiet around here lately.It's hard to remember that ya'll in the southern states are already outside planting your Brugs and flowers while I still have my woodstove going and my daffodils finally got brave enough to poke out of the ground an inch or two.
snow, I've moved all but a few of mine under a shade tree. It's supposed to be cloudy tomorrow, so I'll bring them out farther. Beds are ready and waiting!!
tiG, lucky you. I've been opening up the GH on the nice days but the heater still runs all night.Soon I will start turning it down to get them used to cooler weather. Posted a picture of Isabella back a page I think. It's from one of the cuttings that you sent me last year.It's blooming it's head off tonight with four new flowers opened up.
wonderfuL!!!!!!!! but you're the lucky one, I don't have the first flower, not even a bud. I'm playing catch up with you!
Yours will catch up real quick since they'll be in the ground so much sooner than mine. You'll be posting pictures of your blooms before you know it. Can't wait to see all the blooms this year that everyone will be posting.
All of mine are in the ground finally. I did notice a few HG's that had blooms a few inches long on them as well. Here's hoping I can get a cross from the HG's to Butterfly. Of course Citronella x Ecuador pink has clearly taken as has Candida species x Ecuador pink. Its a slow start, but its a start.
Congratulations Eric!! So far, I've got one pod on Species and maybe another on Jamaica Yellow.
I moved lots of seedlings outside, but still keeping the big plants in the green house since they have buds on them.(and passifloras that are loaded with buds). I'm thinking I will keep some in the green house all summer(especially the ones that have grown to the ground and have roots to China) I'm also trying to decide where to plant all the seedlings I've started.
To be honest Cala I am quite excited at the flush of flowers coming this way. Of course my older hybrids further south have been blooming like crazzy. I noticed quite a few had been pollinated by moths when I went down for a visit last week. I think leaving a few in the greenhouse rooted as they are excellent. Are the greenhouse plants that are rooted into the ground your seed bearing plants?
Brugmansia..a hint...always cross pollen parent to your double flower.Use the double as the seed parent...makes better crosses that way.More likely to get some double offspring. :-)
Eclipse,
To be quite honest, I have tried to set seedpods on HG before to no avail. Still, I don't give up too easily. Herrenhauser Garten appears to be pollen infertile as well as it has not produced any pollen for me at all. Hence, I believe the only way to get seeds from this one is to use it as the pollen donor or perhaps spray it with some GA-3 during flower production as this has had the effect of making some of my Brugmansia flowers much larger and wider than normal. This may allow the pollen to form or for that matter allow the pistal to form a bit better. Of course it may simply be a matter of waiting for some variation in one of the flowers or something simpler. At any rate, I think given time I will hopefully succede in getting some Butterfly pollen to take on HG.
Gosh, it was good to get up this morning and have so many posts in this forum. Great to see you all again.
It's a busy time for me so I havn't had much time to post.
Planting brugs outside.I now understand why Eric uses the survival of the fittest technique.Just tooooo many seedlings.I think the lawnmower will get a workout later in the summer too.
I don't know if some of us can handle another guy turned loose with the lawn mower. :-) I will have a lot of brugs, but 50 or 60 isn't enough for me to start mowing them down. Maybe when I get tired of digging, I'll change my mind about it all.
G2S, you've got that tractor, do you have them planted in rows? i have passed on maybe 40 seedlings, squirt dug up 6 seedlings, and i think about stepping on them, then i think "what if this is the one"? most of my seedlings are going to live in bouquets.
Yep Arlene,I have 2 100 foot rows in the garden with many more to plant.This is in addition to the named varieties now being planted in the yard.
I know about the "what if this is the one" thought.I had one broken and about dead.I removed it from the pot and threw it in the pine forest across the road."What if that was the one"troubled me for a couple of days and guess where that beat up seedling is now?LOL
BTW Arlene I havn't forgotten that I owe you a package.It will go out Saturday.I'm going to have to run that Arborea through the shredder to get it to fit in the box.
How many feet wide?
gee, if the shredder spits any out, root it for me JT!!
I'd go for one or two myself. Any chance you would be willing to keep a short section or two from the shredder? Let me know. I just found out that the arborea that I have isn't a true arborea.
Thanks JT.
Shirley
A shredded arborea...JT, can i have the roots??lol. JT, i hope you'll try direct sowing some seeds when you harvest, i think it'll work, will probably have to be planted a little deeper to keep them moist. by that time you'll probably be out of room.
Ms Brugie, what do you have instead of arborea?
I guess it is a white suaveolens possibly. I've not seen it bloom. It was to have come from NHE originally. I'm still going to grow it to bloom and have a look for myself. Heading out to my snake infested greenhouse to pot up a vine that Frannie sent me. Then will take some plants to our local greenhouse. Busy, busy.
Eric...if that question was about the rows,they are 4 feet apart and plants are 3 feet apart in the row.I think that may be enough room to check for growth and color of blooms.What spacing do you use?
Tig and Brugie....I have some Arborea's rooting now.Calla's method.If these succeed you are on the list.Otherwise will have more from regular cuttings this summer.
Arlene....yours is packed and will go out tomorrow.
If anyone has an extra "Ida" or cuttings I can come up with a nice trade.
Thanks JT, let me know when and where to send the postage. I won't have anything for trade until fall.
My thanks too, JT, you're a gentleman and a scholar.
Hey Arlene and everyone,
Still here, well sorta, just so busy. I am glad I got to stopy by and see you arlene, even though it was only for a few minutes. If I had realized you were that close I would have been over there by now. I sure was surprised when I realized it was your town I was driving through. I took me only about 3 hours to get home from your house. I have gotten most all of my plants potted in the ground now. I have had so much rain this past week and between work and the rain and grandson have bearly had time to breathe. These brugs sure do love this rain. I am not complaining mind you, we are still in drought conditions pretty bad, but it is helping. Still supposed to get rain everyday through next week. Saw tig and PJ last weekend (I think it was) had a good time. Got a couple new plants from Callaway. Just didn't have a lot of time together. Well it is getting daylight so I need to go out and do so more before the rain starts.
Gone2Seed,
I plant in rows similar to you. 4ft wide rows by 25 and 1 ft spacing or so between each row. I have experimented a bit with this and have spaced brug seedlings anywhere from one hands length away from each other to 3 hands length away from each other. I find 2-3 hands length works the best for me. I don't use a ruler for my seeds when or seedlings when I plant. Just measure via my hands. The closer you plant them of course the more you'll find that the stragglers get caught up in a cloud of darkness as the others surround them and tower over them. Those skinny stragglers generally won't die right away, but come winter when we get a freeze you can be assured you will lose a goodly percentage of your stragglers. So far I have mostly selected for first year bloomers that were very fertile, vigorous, and easy to root.
are brugs a deer delicacy??
I don't know about deer, but I know the rodents love to chew straight threw my 3-5 ft seedlings if I don't spray them regularly enough. Right now I am experimenting with systemic acephate, which I love, mixed with Safer Soap,Neem oil, and wintergreen oil.
Dee, you are one traveling woman! i've made some headway on my weeds and gotten some more brugs in the ground. Was so glad to meet you.
Brugman, did you get your package????
Just had to add, don't mix diazinon and malathion and spray-causes sever distortion of growth. I'm talking frankenstein looking growth. Thickened leaves, narrowed...etc....almost as if it was doubling the cells and then narrowing the space they were allowed to occuppy. Very creepy.