This is my first brugmansia bloom! I just had to share. It is a Jamaica yellow I picked up at Logee's this spring. I also have 3 more brugs that I should get to bloom also this summer. I got those in trades. The trouble is working them into my landscaping!
It's a beauty!!!! Congrats!!!!
wonderful!!! it's very pretty, my JY should be the first to bloom, it's loaded with buds
Nice flower. Am anxious to see mine bloom, but it will be quite a while. Have a couple of others starting to bloom, but not as pretty as this yellow one.
Studley..... When you get realy hooked you will find yourself landscaping around your brugs
That is nice, very nice. Congrats!
Very nice bloom. Pete, you're so right. LOL
How nice!Why is everyone up north blooming before me???LOL
Must be the cold, I mean cool mountain air cc. LOL
Don't worry CC - I'm sure I'll be the last one with blooms. I'm still working on getting them in the ground. I've decided ... I can not grow so many!! I'll have to pick out a few favorites to winter over and contain my brug lust next year for sure.
CC, why is everyone up north blooming before me????????? argh
It's a beauty - Congratulations.
tig,You're not bloomin????I figured there'd be tons by now!
:) I spent most of my winter starting seeds, and just kept my cuttings alive at best. I gave away all my bigger cuttings because the tags were gone. I so wish now that I'd fed them really good so they would all be 6' tall. This winter will be different. I'm going to be sparing with the cuttings and heavy handed with my new halide light and the food!! Lord, let me live one more year!
tiG, I'm already trying to figure what to do this winter. Last winter it was 6in. cuttings, this winter will be 6ft. trees.Will defititely have to downsize and keep just a few special ones tree size and take cuttings of the rest.Have to figure also how to keep those cuttings from hitting the ceiling before they can go in the GH March 1st. I promised DH that I would leave some room for his tomatoes and veggies next year. Yeh right. ;) So glad you got a halide light. It really works great.
I put quite a few into the ground, so those will be my late bloomers next year, and I'll just take cuttings of them. Had I gotten the light earlier, there's no doubt that mine would have been much bigger when I put them out. but .... :)
But next year I will have more trees in May, and I will have blooms by now, and possibly during the winter. I feel like Scarlet all of a sudden!! LOL!
You're so lucky to be able to leave some in the ground.I just wish I could heat my GH all winter but it's just way to costly. The sunporch will have to do again this winter. Just have to figure how to keep them at a size that will not outgrow the sunporch.I'll have to have them in by Sept. and they won't be going out in the GH till March 1st.Such a long 6 months to wait for spring again.
yes, but you can do it with cuttings all over again!!! i just can't believe what you've done up there!! just went outside to clear my head and found that Pink Beauty has Y'ed. and the buds on Jamaican Yellow are getting nice and big. that helped:)
tiG,
See...they will be blooming before you know it.
Before you know it they will be blooming their heads off. It's just so hard to be patient and wait for those blooms. I keep staring at my EP but it doesn't make the buds grow any quicker. LOL. I need the pollen from that one so bad and it seems to be the slowest to bloom. Only had one flower so far on it.
tiG, I hold mine back by not fertilizing a lot and they don't get a lot of light either. Just enough to keep them alive. Then when it is closer to taking them out or to the greenhouse, I start giving them more food. I doubt that I fertilize more than once a month during the winter. Mine were about 18 inches when I put them in the garden this year. I have 20 that have Y'd now and have had three that have had their first flush of bloom. I may dig a few of mine, put the root ball in garbage bags, and try to hold them over in the basement as dormant plants. Will do the cuttings as well, just in case.
we're still deciding whether to go for a greenhouse or a greenroom. I have a huge huge room inside and enough lights to light up our city. We have no place outside that gets enough light for a greenhouse. We're pretty much decided on the room inside. The heat is just right, it doesn't get too warm or cold in there, and I have one side of the room has 10 ft ceiling. I'll have all the room I need, and really couldn't afford a greenhouse that big. (about 20 x 14)
if I don't have blooms this winter, it's not my fault!! LOL!!
tiG, with good light, you could pay a light bill for a long time with what it would cost you to build a nice size greenhouse. I think I'd do the green room thing if it were me. I'd love a nice big greenhouse like Snow and Cala have, but boy, in the winter, keeping them warm would be worse than heating our whole home and Jim's shop together.
Oh my goodness, who knew that my post would create such discussion! As it is my first year, I shall put them all out and take cuttings. I have the luxury of a greenhouse. Irish was right, I have already found myself landscaping around my brugs. I just dug out a whole new garden that I will fill with brugs and daturas (and maybe some perennials if there is still any room!)
sorry we took over your thread Studley, that's the way we are in this forum, we just start talking and keep on going!
Studley, do you keep your GH heated all winter?
snowhermit,
My parents own a greenhouse & garden center business. It's heated all winter when we're growing our poinsettias and then pansies. I just try and sneak some plants in wherever they will fit. With the brugs, it will definitely be cuttings since I will get pretty good growth on them in the greenhouse.
Lucky you studley. Mine is just to expensive to heat in the winter up here. I'm sure I must have seen your Garden Center. We go through Rochester sometimes as that is where my DH was born.
