Gretchen, no I haven't. I wonder if they would rot. I bet you could get by for a week or so. I notice the leaves may rot but not the trunks.
Babur, Supersoil is a brand here in Califonia. It drains freely. MG is Miracle Grow potting soil. It has Miracle grow fertilizer in it. A little heavier than Supersoil. When I pot up my brugs in spring, I try to use a heavier soil so I do not have to water daily at the end of the summer. But when I am rooting, I prefer a light, fast draining soil like Supersoil. I guess when I wrote this, I was using half and half. I change my soil mix a lot. LOL. I am never happy!
These brugs have not been watered for at least 7 weeks.
Thanks, Kell! I think I'll just take them with me for now. This will probably be my last trip of the season, as when they get any bigger, I'm definitely stuck here.
Kell, I haven't tried this with brugs yet as they seem to root pretty easy for me without it but I can attest that this does work. I use to it root miniature roses with I'd say a 98% success rate. Only difference I put the cuttings in styrofoam cups (larger ones) then slip the cup with rooting into a clear bag...the ones they put our newspaper in work great. I just tied to top and hang the bag somewhere in the shade with a clothes pin. Hanging it keeps the plastic off the leaves a little better. I also use this method of bouganvilla and I'd say it's pretty much 100% success rate so far. Sandra
So clever Sandra! I will go buy some clothes pins! LOL I want to root some double wisteria! I have had no luck yet.
LOL Gretchen, you are vacationing with your brug babies? LOL. Save room for my seeds. I am picking out some special ones just for you! I like your brug Mom style!
Kell, you can root the wisteria by just pulling down a piece to the ground, scratch the "wood" then put some rooting hormone on it and cover that with soil. I set a brick or something on it to hold it down. Very easy to root that way. You probably already know that though. Sandra
Yes Kell...what can I say? I'm going to make every effort to give these little ones a good chance at being "something" LOL! And, I'm looking forward to those :) I just started 60 more seeds, and would like to start as many again by the first week of October. I told DH that once these 60 were potted up to 4" ers, my traveling days are over... As it is I'll be travelling with twelve 4" and 60 seeds in RW... Am I crazy or what???
I have to tell you this is one of the most helpful postings. I have not been able to root the brugs I have gotten from some of you until I tried this. I cut off an aple juice bottle and planted one in it. I put it down in the bottom of one of the orange newspaper bags, blew air into it until it ballooned, then put a twist tie on it. I put it in the kneehole of my computer desk.
That was on the 10th of this month. I finally decided to check it. Well, I mean to tell you that when I picked it up and pulled it out of there, I had more than the twist tie, I broke off 3 leaves. It had grown a new top about 8 inches long, with several leaves, and it had one inch roots all up and down the original stalk I had planted. It also had 2 new plants coming out of the stalk at the soil line. I cut that original stalk off and it had roots going down into the soil an inch up the stalk and when I used a fork to pry it out it had a whole rootball of it's own.
It was really exciting. This probably wasn't as exciting to you all experts, but I did take pictures and won't take up the space here but if anyone wants to see them, send me your email address. Jeanette
Btw, I did this more to bring Kell's thread up again for other newbies than anything.
This sounds wonderful Jnette! Its always so exciting to hear about others who have success with things. Congratulations! Hopefully next year you will be looking at some beautiful blooms from this cutting.
I have used Kells method many times since she started this thread back in the Spring. I have only lost a couple cuttings and they were really green. This is how I am rooting all my brugs now. I have also used it on alot of other types of plants and have had really good success.
Thanks Kell this is a very interesting thread. I have a hibiscus that I am trying to root. I have had it in for about 3 weeks now. It still has a couple of leaves left on it so I guess it is still alive. Not any new ones though. I put it in a bag and can't wait to see what happens. I got a Begonia Rex about 3 weeks ago, it was already rooted in a pot, I did it as well. I used a 2 1/2 gal. size hefty zip lock bag for my Hibiscus and a gal. size for my Begonia. They are under my gro light about 3 ft. away from it. I am going to leave them in there and see what they do. I have a brug cutting coming and I am going to do the same with it when I root it. I am excited to see how they do.. THANK YOU THANK YOU
Linda
Last year when I cut my brugs back I put them in walmart bags and placed them in the basement with the intention of getting them in a day or so but got busy and days turned in to many days and when I went to get them out they had rooted. I posted here on Dave's about it. I got some daylily and canna roots at the Ky. roundup and they were in plastic bags and I left them in it and they sprouted leaves and looked really good later when I finally got them in the ground.
Edited to say it was a couple of years ago.
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I went back and checked the posting I did a couple of years ago and Kell posted on there. I had a few people that read and Kell has 90. I guess I did good w two years later. LOL
http://davesgarden.com/forums/t/368550/
It must be the pictures Georgiaeclay! LOL! Though I do not think I got the idea from you actually, I think I got it from someone on another forum that was talking about how to start seeds. They talked about how great plastic bags are. A few others discussed it also and the idea stuck with me.
Since, I have learned that this is an old gardener's trick, a mini greenhouse! People have all sorts of ways to enclose cuttings to make a mini GH inside.
I now use clear plastic bags to start my brug seeds exclusively. For brug cuttings, I save this method for those that root with difficulty and when I do not want to be bothered with them for a month or so.
I already have my seedling rack full and I have not even started on my best seeds yet.
Kell I wasn't trying to take any credit for it. I went back and checked the posting to see what year I made it. I broke my arm last year and got to thinking after I posted that it couldn't have been last year because I didn't do a lot of gardening. The point I was trying to make was everyone that is posting now about what a great idea it is could have beeen using it two years ago. I was pointing out that I had 7 postings to mine and you have 90 to yours. I guess they like your posting better than mine which doesn't upset me at all. Just an observation is all.
Kell you mentioned you do start your seeds in the bag as well. I have some brug seeds that are in clear plastic cups that are already starting to come thru the soil, can I put them in bags and leave them for a short time while I am away from home like maybe 5 days.
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Kell,
Did I misunderstand you? or did you say that you just put bags over the tops of the bigger plants? How does that make roots?
Jeanette
Every once in a while I think this needs to be brought up to the top for people like myself who are new to Brugs. I've tried it, it works, Especially this time of year when there seem to be so many prunings of them.
Jeanette
Sorry, I did not see this came up again. I could have swore I answered you Jnette. Did you email me?
Anyway, the bags over the tops of tall brugs helps keep the tops from wilting. Though I will say I have had tall brugs whose tops bend over in half in wilt, only to stand up 3 weeks later as roots form and rehydrate the tops. But a bag over the top does the same thing less traumatically!!
You can also put one over the pot!
2pugs, I would think that would be fine as long as they are not too big.
No problem Kell, you did answer me. I was just talking to someone about this and rather than direct her how to find it, it was easiest to bring it back up. As you can tell I was impressed.
Jeanette
I am in Houston visiting right now, my son has a magnolia tree that has some shoots starting at the base, I am going to cut these and take back home to Kansas with me and give this method a try. If it works great, if it doesn't I won't be out anything.
See Kell, it worked already. haha
Linda, I am using it on a couple of sweet potato vines, (one week and I see progress already). I guess the trick is not to look for at least 2 or 3 weeks. Jeanette