My candida flora plena Golden Lady and versicolor x Tropica Orange plants arrived. I guess I have to say that considering the plants were ~ $4.99 each I can't complain. Three of the GL were so small if one blinked you might miss them. Overall the others are very healthy looking. Don't particularly like their rooting methods though.
I'm not sure they will survive a second shipping right now with our really low temperatures. I'll keep them indoors until the end of June. Imagine having the furnace still on in June! I'm sick and tired of the rain, but the brugs outside are loving it! I put them outside in May and they adjusted nicely to the unseasonably cool and wet weather. Lots of Eric's Isabella crosses have buds so I'll see flowers for the first time on those!
In the meantime, I've gotten pretty adept at rooting little side growth shoots as small as 1", but they do take awhile to begin to go into their growth spurts.
Off topic, but it seems that we will get a very late crop of tomatoes and peppers if the weather continues like this. Its still too cold to even plant them outdoors.
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Here is a picture of the versicolor x Tropcia Orange
This is the Golden Lady that they sell.
I get a kick out of rooting tiny things also Joydie. I feel such a sense of accomplishment when it works! LOL. This one I rooted when it had just one tiny leaf and about a half inch stem to begin with. I was sure it was a goner. It has grown!
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do you think that first picture is really a candida?
edited to say:
lol........well you can hardly see it and I wonder why it does not enlarge.............. oops
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Joydie, the Golden Lady is BEAUTIFUL!!!!!
Joyce, you and I were discussing these plants by e mail this morning.
I got mine too and they look to me like they have to be seedlings rather than cuttings so now I wonder just what we will end up with out of these?????
My 3 'Exotica' died so when Golden Lady arrived ( they were even smaller) I pulled them apart to se how they were rooted. They are in those little peat Pellet pots, then planted in soil and by the looks of the size of the stem, leaves and roots, I am certain they are not from cuttings. I suppose they 'could' be from rooted leaves, but I doubt they have the time for that slow process to do it for a bulk market.
I got these plants 2 weeks ago and they have each put out one new leaf. The one in the medicine cup had no roots when I got it and I really expected it would rot and die in the pot it came is do I am nursing it along in the cup.
could they possibly be from tiny side shoot 'cuttings'?? if they are from seed, that stinks, cause you might get nothing. of course you might get something really nice, but...
wow RA, when you said elsewhere that they were small, you meant it!!!
are you going to call and ask them?
Geez, now I see what brugcrazy meant about small. Is there no riper wood on them?
if they are seedlings, that's $5 a seed with S&H, I'm new to brugs but that sure seems like a lot unless they are super-duper rare varieties!!!!
Jeanne, I think to call them a 'cutting' from any source (mine at least) I would really have to stretch my imagination. Those are the 31/2" pots they came in in the pic.
I must add though that mine were on back order so perhaps yours were bigger/ older starts than mine turned out to be.
Still, when all is said and done, if they grow, that's all I can ask for.
The previous 4 years they sent much better sized plants.
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RA,
Most of the plants were at least 4-6 inches, but i did get 3 GL that were only about 2 inches tall. I actually placed 2 orders, the second one was for my sisters. Mine are definately cuttings and not seedlings. They look to have been taken from small side vegetal growth.
One of the Tropica plants has a Y, now that's ridiculous cuz the plant will flower much too soon, its only about 6 inches tall. I don't know when you ordered yours RA, but they don't ship plants before the third week of May. I believe I ordered mine back in February and they came with the first shipment. I'm thinking the very small ones were rooted at the last minute when they probably were innundated with requests for the GL and tried to root more cuttings in a hurry. My second order was placed towards the end of March and that I know has to be those 3 litle small ones-my three sister's plants.
Kell, I think that the pink one they offer is really a Frosty Pink, or Isabella.
I've discovered that versicolor brugs send out tons of vegetal growth. I've been plucking off side shoots and rooting them because all that side growth really slows down the vertical growth of the plants.
I've 3 little tiny Kirpark's (too long a name to spell out..lol) Liz, you know the one I mean. Two others that I rooted from the same mother plant are now a foot tall and the first two I rooted last summer from the mother are now 3 feet tall. The mother and the taller ones from last year have their first buds.
Liz and Jeanne,
Any suggestions as to which pollen to use on Kirpark? Liz have you put Kirpark on a double candida or on another vericolor peach or orange? I'm thinking it might be great to use on a Cremesickle if any of us in Canada have one. Mine died a tragic death! Did either of you receive your Snowbank from Holes?
Monika,
If you see this post, do you know the background of Kirpark Bad Sal???? I'm too lazy to go and read the tag and I still can't remember its complete name (shame on me). Even on a good day I'm still only functionally senile.
Carena,
$5.00 is dirt cheap considering GL is a European hybrid and a double! Its the first European hybrid to be offered in Canada from a nursery! I've seen it listed other places for over three times what we paid for ours, but having said that they are probably larger rooted cuttings. I'm going to have to baby mine along all summer!
Now I'm waiting to see what Harbourcrest's cuttings look like. They just raised their prices to $8 for cuttings and rooted plants used to be $6. I still can't complain considering the price and mine were at the old price. I noticed when I went back to order more for my sisters that the prices went up.
I thought that might be the case, I'm not saying I wouldn't pay big bucks for something I really love, I have done so many times before. I sure do have a LOT to learn about brugs, I need to pay close attention to all of you experts to learn the ropes (and the terminology)!! I started some from seed this year, they are doing great, I call them my little buddies, every day they make me smile.