Starting Brugs from seeds

Hi to all,

I got some mails with questions about sowing brugseeds.
Sorry, I don´t have time to reply all single mails,we have this forum for this,smile.
Please have a look here: http://www.brugmansias.org/seeds.html

Like Gwist I also use some sand at the top of the sowing soil, against fungus gnats and the seedlings can stripe their corky cover.

If you will have more questions please feel free to ask. One of us or all will try to reply your questions.

Thank you

Ludger

Thanks Ludger, for the information. Hopefully my seed will come up and maybe I will be able to post pictures of my flowers. I just pray they turn out half as good as yours.

I am having pretty good luck with my seeds, have no fungus gnats, but will also try some sand to cover them. I have some problems with seed head coming off, try to spray and keep moist until it comes off. Will see if sand helps.

Thanks.

Clayton, best wishes and much luck to you and to all brugsowers. I am shure all of you will get some nice flowering brugs soon ( from seeds ). It is not difficult..
Here at Daves and with the good working together with BGI you have found best place to become a brugnut,smile.

My first brugseedlings has been normal whites and pinks, no matter..I was so proud because I did sow them.

I guess: This year you will make the first brugpollinations by yourself, it´s easy:
http://www.brugmansias.org/pollination.html

Greetings

Ludger

Thanks Ludger, I have started a few but I still don't have any coming up yet. Do you soak them first and for how long? How do you peel the outer layer? I can't see that well!!! LOL!!! Have any suggestions?

vredfish, I just soak mine for 24 hrs and plant. Last year I peeled half of my seeds and planted the other half unpeeled.I only saw a couple of days difference in their sprouting.If you want to peel them just soak and then carefully peel some of the outer cork layer off with your fingernail being very careful not to injure the little bean that is inside.

I love this forum. vredfish do like Snow told.Snow,one day I will use such a good english like you do...smile, thanks to you.
First flower from my first sowing:

Ludger!!! that is beautiful! It looks so much like Cherie Amour in a shot I have of her.

Thank you Bonnie. As I told you...you have some parents in US,use them and you will have all brugs you are searching for..........smile.

Ludger, you have learned the English language very well. We have so many slang words and words that have different meanings that I am amazed at how well you do.

Great new brug Ludger. Very pretty and I like the way it is ruffled around the edge. Yep, I definitely like it.

Terry, thank you so much. I like to learn..and I like to be taught...gee..
Sometimes I mix English and German slang.....
To be honest: I believe that all people will understand me who are going to want to go....

You are SO right! I have not had a problem with your English, much better than MY German! ha

Thanks Ludger, for the links about pollination. There is another question. Can you pollinate the same type with each other to get seeds or do they have to be cross pollinated with a differnt type all together?

You can pollinate all aurea,suavolens,versicolor and their hybrids to each other. The other group is arborea,sanguinea,vulcanicola and their hybrids,you can pollinate all from this group to each other,too.
Arborea is self fertile.

Thank Ludger, like I said I still have alot to learn about brugs, but with people like you and Kell and the others I have talked to here it won't take me long.

Welcome Clayton!
I read my last post again.To clear up: You can not pollinate from one group to the other group.

I thought you were at work!!! has it been that long???

Grin, I am just back and the first thing I do: Going to Daves,lol.

Ludger,
that's the first thing I do every morning...get up...get my glass of Pespi and turn on Dave's.

Ludger - Some of my seedlings are looking sorta yellow-ish. What do you think the problem is? I thought I was probably keeping them too moist but they don't seem to be improving much after letting them dry out. I've been fertilizing ... lightly at half strength.

Do you think it's because they need to be transplanted? Many of them are crowded but I haven't got any room left under my lights. I've been putting off transplanting until I can move some outside.

When the seedlings look yellow-ish,the damage is already there. You can not " make better " a history mistake...the roots are gone. Never fertilize a seedling or brug if you are wondering about illness. You never will save a ill brug with fertilizing, only healthy brugs can use fertilizer.

Try to keep the seedlings and put them outside without repotting !!! may be the more light will give them a chance.
First repot when you see a new starting at the seedlings,never repot a ill seedling, no power...

( A brug with signes of needing fertilizer is not a ill brug, for better understanding)

Sorry for these words, I only can help you with being honest.

Thanks everyone for the info and to Ludger for starting this thread. Ludger your Brugs are beautiful!!

Ludger - I assume you're thinking the yellowing is from overwatering and causing roots to rot??? I can see the roots in some because the containers are clear.

Poppysue AKA Birthday Girl! by any chance are they your CG X EP? I had the same problem with them! In every cell pack of them regardless of where they were located.......LOL.....my car or my bathroom! I sprayed them a couple of times with a weak 20 20 20 fertilizer as a foliar feed and they greened up and took off....LOL! It could not be my soil, for I used the same mix for all of mine and they were the only ones that were so yellowish. I was thinking it must be those particular seeds.

Poppy, How big are these seedlings and is it just the leaves that are yellowish or the trunk too? Are the roots white and healthy looking?

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CG X EP,Smile.I would like input on these,run them moist or dry?Full sun or part shade?