Please forgive me but I don't visit this forum very often, so if I ask a question that you have talked about please bear with me. How difficult is it to start brugs and daturas from seed? I sure see them featured a lot in all those various seed catalogs I am getting. How long will they take to bloom from germination? Any special tricks?Where do you all get your seed? I have had luck with cuttings but of course they are not hardy here. I had 7 or 8 great new plants going in my cool greenhouse last fall and we had an unexpected low temp one night and I lost them all.:(
Brugs from seed
lenjo.... its not hard to start seeds... the brugmansia seeds have a outer cork like shell you should soak them for about 24 hours in room temp water you can plant them then or remove the outer cork... it looks like a little bean inside sometimes it takes a mounth or better to germanate. Datura seeds I just plant and they grow be sure if you order from a catologe that what they are calling brugmansia or angle trumpits are sometimes they call darura's the same
Lenjo,someone on this forum can probably help with seed.If no one here has any to spare try http://www.valleygrow.com. His seed produce many whites but they are fresh and germinate well.
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Lenjo - I still have some of the White Suave x Insig Pink seeds left. The babies will most likely be white. If you want to try a pack I'd be happy to share.
A couple of other seed sources ought to be mentioned;
Tig's Treasures here on member stores has some named
crosses at a reasonable price and some top quality seed are available,to members,from the BGI seed bank.http://www.brugmansias.org Join!
here is good seed starting info too. http://www.brugmansias.org/seeds.html
Hi Lenjo, I would be happy to send you more cuttings. I also should have lots of seed that you can have if the pods ever mature. Also Cala's store has some nice seeds. Email me if you want.
Glory
Dec 30, 2002
Lenjo,
I have some seeds from Valley Misty Pink if you want some...not sure what the cross is but you are more then welcome to some of the seeds.
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