I'm getting nervous about an early frost coming. Most of my brugs are sunk in the ground in pots. A lot of the seedlings are planted directly in the ground. I'm wondering if it would be wise for me to start digging them out now... I still have 3 weeks or so until frost is due to hit here. Tonight they're predicting a low of 46º and then the rest of the week the low is in the 50s.
I really, really want to get plants up without loosing the buds on them. Do you think the buds will have a better chance of hanging on if I dig now? I was thinking they might get over the shock a little easier if they were pulled up now and left outside to adjust for a couple of weeks before coming indoors. I have small buds on quite a few seedlings. I hate to loose them. Maybe it would be better to leave them in the ground and pray for the frost to stay away.....
Down to 46º tonight
It might just be a one night thing. I'm counting on enough time for mine to bloom. Hope I'm counting right!!
I have started repotting all mine. I put all the small ones in bigger pots that will be permanent until next spring. As soon as I get back out there, I am going to start on all the big ones so if bad weather does come, I just have to drag them in, ALL of them. Sigh. I figure I will just leave them out there for now in their pots. Maybe I can put them all close together so I don't need so many blankets. LOL Sorry I don't know about the pod part. I've never had any. LOL
We don't usually get our first freeze until around Thanksgiving, but I always put my plants I don't want to lose on the covered patio up against the house. I cover them with old sheets and blankets and uncover when the weather is fairly warm, which in South Texas can be quite often. We don't have too many freezes. What is the lowest temperature that small brugs in pots can withstand without dying? I don't want to lose any of them.
it is that time again to post http://www.floridata.com/tracks/misc/frostdates.htm . it was surprising for us to have lower 50ish temperature for the 1st time. sure glad it is cooling some. i am tired of the hot weather.
we usually don't get frost here until late November if then. But i've noticed lately that the trees are changing colors and the low temps this week are supposed to be in the 60's some nights close to 59.
I'm wondering also if we're not all in for an early fall and possible early freezing. I think within the next week or so i'll be getting my personal winter cuttings started just to be on the safe side.
I still need to get my GH expansion done also before it starts gettig too cold.
Sue, every single bud fell off of my plants when I brought them in last fall. They were in pots the whole time, and hadn't been repotted recently. I hope that you have better luck than I did! On a brighter note, several of them developed buds once they were inside, & those buds held on & bloomed. It happened on other plants besides brugs, too. Outside buds wanted to open outside, & inside buds would open in the house.
Yes, I lost most of the buds last year too,... but many of them opened bloomed while the plants were out in my greenhouse before I brought them in. After they came inside buds, leaves, and eventually the pods fell off.
I'm so depressed thinking about it .......
Last September I tried something new with mine that were planted in the ground. I took the shovel and cut down through the roots about the diameter the pot was that I was going to plant them in.... but I did not lift the plant out of the ground at that time, I left it right there where it was. I gave it transplant fertilizer each time I watered them for the next 2 weeks and only then did I lift them and pot them up.
I really think it aided in reducing the transplanting shock.I did not loose buds and even the seed pods stayed on the plants. :))