The stem on the bottom is getting a grayish color on the stems and showing lenticels.These become roots...so the cutting on the bottom will root the best and fastest of the two..when making cuttings try to get older stems.Bright green soft cuttings will sometimes root well but most times they just rot from the bottom up.Half mature wood is best.
Is that what those nubby things are called? - lenticels?? That's a good picture & good info to know before I start hacking mine back.
Kyle, thanks for showing the difference. deeply appreciate that :)! good to know for newbies like me LOL!
My pleasure..this way more swaps will root better. :-)
Hi Eclipse, you are back! I accused Brugie of kidnapping you since you have been absent it seems since you went to her house. I was convinced she was keeping you in her closet, allowed out only to work in her garden!
Gosh Kell, that has been a couple of weeks ago. Where have you been?
Brugie, the question is where had Eclipse been since then!! Remember I asked you the other day what you had done to him for he was not posting..................
u gals are so funny LOL! Kyle been busy hybridizing i think! watch out he will probably surprise us all.
btw Kyle most of the brugs i have on the ground has the features of the lower stem. when is the best time to chop or snap cuttings accdg to Kell LOL!
Yep, remember you asking sometime this weekend. Have to remember, I'm tired these days.
Kyle, glad you posted this picture. I sure didn't know what those little white specks were called. I just always call those that swell, nubbies.
personal health is far more important Shirley. take care of urself.
Poor baby! And you wore yourself out even before your MIL got so sick! You do to much Brugie, way to much!
Okay Everyone.....let's all feel sorry for Shirley......Geez, I'm just fine. MVR, it is my MIL who is ill, not me and I'm just tired from having company. No big deal except Kyle's thread has been hyjacked. Sorry Kyle.
I think I need Kyle to help me with the FAQ thingie that TiG wants to do.
Send him an email. Can't ever hurt to ask.
Ok Shirley, I do not feel sorry for you! And I really think you are very lazy! I was just saying that other stuff to be nice, but I was lying!
For us in warmer zones, the only problem with cutting pieces that have lenticels, is that you need to cut way down on your brug. I try not to prune mine late in the season for it promotes new soft growth that really gets frosted! Last year I had my first brug that died to the ground and it is because my DH cut it to the ground so a tree could be taken out behind it, and it grew up waist high and then a frost got it in February! It just now is 5 feet and no blooms yet...........
I only wrote the above to give the thread back to Eclipse on Shirley's orders!
ONLY 5 feet!! Oh Kell, we feel so bad for you.
poor esmy! I feel so bad for her.
lenticels - wonderful - sounds so much better than 'white nubbie pre-roots'
we've come a long way since last year when we were calling corolla tendrils 'those wingey things' LOL
lessons learned from brugman, if you take a cutting where it is shifting from brown to green will root really well. green cuttings and hard to root cuttings do best without being put in water, especially thin green cuttings, very hard to root without rotting, but once in a while a stem will rot on me and it'll still put up a shoot and grow.
also cuttings that don't have leaves take longer to root then ones with leaves. too many leaves left on might kill them.
although i have rooted quite a few cuttings i still have huge panic attacks, about "special cuttings". i think all of us have killed some, at least i hope i'm not alone!
I know!!! I have this 'most special' cutting I just got the other day. and I've been checking the soil every few minutes, I don't want it to get too dry you know. and then if it gets a bit too wet I take the dryer to it, cause it's a very rare Euro brug I got from someone who loves me very much. Don't you esmy??
Seriously, the only thing I don't use the water lightly, and ignore rooting method is the teeny side shoots. I dip them in rooting hormone and put in sand. Love it.
tig, i am glad you understand!!!!!!
Arlene, we hate people that kill rare brug cuttings!!!
watch tiG kill her most special brug that was sent with love and affection!
never, I took it to bed with me last night. Cala was sick as a dog and got out of the sick bed to pot hers up. We would never let anything happen to this brug!!!!
Lol, if only I could count....I killed my very first Culebra cutting I recieved and that was quite a while ago.
I killed the first brug cuttings ever given to me. I could have had brugs a whole year before I did.
List me on the killing list. I killed several last winter when living in Herlev. Some was very green and had traveled half the globe. I think the insignis Pink was the only surviver from that time. *lol* Its close to 4 ft. now with three trunks. Oooh yes!! ... I lost almost any small culebra. I learned for the future to take cuttings similar to the upper in Kyles picture (when ever I can) and if these aregreener that that I ask, wheter I should root them here or send directly as is. I won`t have any here having any stress related diseases on on acount of them. *lol*
Add me to the brug killer list too!!
Me too - an X Knightii. I should have started with Frosty - I know where I can find one or two of those.
I can also be added to that list.
for shame on you MIss Lizzy!! you may still get a frosty or 2!!! LOL
Frostys root like bunnies Kell - that's why we're all sending them to you. They're safer in CA. You have such stringent agricultural laws.
ROFLOL Liz.
I killed the first 2 P & C's I got, they were small & green so I don't feel so bad now. Now I have a healthy one that DeeinFl rooted for me. It is still only about a foot tall, but I am proud of it!!
My P & C is putting out lots of side shoots. Soon I will have a P & C garden!! I just can't toss pieces of brugs away yet!! I have tried to give my staff all brugs.........they think I am crazy but dare not say it.........LOL
Well, take me off the killers list again. *lol* Temporarely, of course. I took several cuttings from some of the Brugs and took from the branch tips and down to 3-4 cm broad logs. All marked and put in glasses with clean water. Three days since now. Even the tips of some of the cut hybrids start to have lenticels. I chance water every day and flush the cuttings under running water and check for any signs of rot.
Have anyone tried to ad a tiny bit rooting agent to the water? LMK
bump! for the classic's page Dave started, on line help!
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Hi-
I'm relatively new to the art of growing these plants; about 2+ years ago I impulsively purchased a green stick(pencil) in a jiffy-7 peat pot from an expensive CT grower ($10.00) and in a short while had a small tree..which was transplanted to ever larger pots and overwintered inside(to my wifes' delight) But I pruned my plants in the Spring, and sliced the trimmings into cigar-length segments, which I allowed to callous over for a few days. They rooted readily in a mixture of peat/perlite.
Are there advantages to fall pruning? Should I allow the plants to go dormant (leaflesness?)
John
