I finally got my first brug to bloom and just had to post it--it was worth the wait--its a suaveolens pink-and boy do they smell great-I feel like a proud mom!!!!!!!!Now I have to ask--do you deadhead the spent blooms?
First brug and first blooms
That is such a pretty one, a very nice pink color. Congrats on your first one. Looks like a very healthy plant.
I dead head mine if I haven't pollinated it Cottosnag. Even if I do I sometimes pull off the brown bloom part to make the plant look better.
So happy for you! I just leave mine to fall off by themselves.
I am guilty of tugging on the dead blooms too, even if I've pollinated them. I can't stand they way they look when they start to fade.
Thanks for the replies--I havent got as far as to try to pollinate them yet--I have 12 other brugs I am growing and waiting for them to bloom--I will have to learn how to pollinate them--this is all new to me--thanks to Brugie--she got me hooked!!
Brugie does her best to get alot of people hooked! LOL.
Pollinating is fun and easy. The easiet way is to just break off an anther from one brug and rub it onto the stigma of another.
Congrats CS, how old is your plant? Mine was purchased late March but just getting buds now! Am wondering if they're in too much shade, or just too much rain?
Hey Vi, who is following who now? LOL
Didn't you notice? Our great minds were following our great taste at the same time, lol!
I am spending another hot Saturday night! LOL
Ain't it the truth!
Isn't your mom getting hooked on DG yet, kell?
Gosh, sorry to hijack this cotto! Guess some of us just need a life, LOL!
No and in fact I am starting to get lectured about my computer usage! Today she told me there is more to life than the computer and I said really, what?
CS, I just love the pink ones :D By yours I definitly like the way the peachy yellow mingles with the softer pink at the ends of the flowers :) Do you like the smell?
Kell, I get lectured about my computer usage a couple of days in the week *lol* Many of us live so far apart, so I am very thankfull that the PC and internet was invented :)
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Are you hooked now cottosnag? Very pretty plant. I love the soft pink color.
Coto..very nice looking plant........do you ever get to Des Moines? I could give you a lesson on pollinating at work....
you can't pass up an offer like that! I'd say plan a trip.
Gee, can I come too Eclipse?
Shirley, you did a good job!
Its a compact well flowering plant, the dream of all brug fanciers and dangerous too of getting hooked!
This message was edited Sunday, Jul 13th 10:23 AM
Snag,
Come as far as my house and I will drive you to Des Moines to meet up with Kyle for the polinating lesson.
Very beautiful blooms! congrats!
Arlene
P.S. Was that from cuttings or from seed?
Snag Thats your first Brug Bloom???Dang Shirley set you up with a beauty!Don't ya just love the smell?Can't compare with anything else,far as I'm concerned!!
Yours looks great!!!Very healthy,hope you get to take Kyle up on his offer,I'd love to see what your wild women ways would come up with!LOL!
Tell Snag2 I said HEY!
I don't believe I gave that plant to Cheryl. She picked up some at the Roundup, but I didn't have anything large enough for blooming that I can remember. I can take the blame for getting her hooked. I wouldn't let her get by without trying some more. The fun of growing brugs is to work with others and give plants/cuttings. Cheryl, you didn't get that one from me, did you? I also like the way it grows Monika. Cheryl is doing a great job for a beginner. If you can't get to DM for a pollinating lesson, write me a note and I can help you out.
Cottosnag, I just remembered this site which was done by our own Cala. She explains it all so well! It may help get you ready for your hands on lesson from Kyle. You lucky duck!
http://mysite.freeserve.com/Brugmansia101/
You should definitely be proud being this is your first one and it is such a pretty brug.
Cottosnag: Hey way to go. It is surely a beauty and pink to boot. I love pink. You beat me with first blooms. Although, I think mine are starting to form wee little buds. Shirley does have a way of passing on her addiction. We love ya, Shirley.
Cotto, congratulations on a very pretty pink brug. I don't have any in bloom right now. I bought Pink Beauty this spring but no buds on it yet. It is in a 12 inch pot, maybe i need to repot it larger. I'm pretty new at this too. Donna
Thanks Debby, I just love brugs, people, and sharing. Hope all have great luck with your new brugs and new addiction. Debby and Snag, next year you will probably have at least twice as many as this year.
yayyyyyyyyyyyyy for you----its a wonderful feeling isnt it? and you will have many more to follow!!
violabird I got my brug on ebay in May--it was about 1 foot tall then--Idont have much shade so I try to put my brugs under the overhang of my house--also I live in the country and the wind blows all the time so my brugs take a beating and those dang spider mites chomp away
arlene yes I would like to take a road trip--I got cuttings from some guy in Puerto Rico--I think pink golitto
--how ever you spell it--but they are doing great too--
I just love the way my brug smells--nothing better
Kell thanks for the hyperlink--it is just great--it explains what I wanted to know about brugs--its very easy to understand and great pictures--thanks again
cottosnag
Thanks for answering you lucky thing, you're definitely doin something right! You GO girl!