I hate this year, the bugs ,the winds,the hail,now we are to get down to 29F here tuesday or wednesday nights.All my brugs are budded..now they will drop most of the blooms...bout one more bad year and I'm done.
Very disappointed...........
I think a lot of us had a ruff year. I dread frost but when it comes... I feel a big relief. Anything unfinished is over and there's no point dwelling on it then. I have a lot of buds too and I know I won't be able to see them.
Maybe you can get through the first frost with blankets?
I really feel for you guys that are about to get or are already having cold or freezing temps.
We usually don't get frost here until late november or early decemebr but the way things have gone this year it wouldn't surprise me if we saw freezing temps way before then.
I really need too get that GH expansion done and get all of my personal brug cuttings taken for the winter.
I've been busting my butt trying to get everything in the GH...Gee,guess what,it doesent fit.
Its been so cold and rainy,then no rain but no sun,and I feel like summer only lasted a few weeks.....
I think the entire country had a weird summer...
But I will not let mother nature defeat me!!!!!
I WILL SEE BLOOMS!
Kyle ,you couldn't call it quits anyhow...you're as addicted as the rest of us!!!
You can do Kyle! Go Kyle GO!!! CC that goes for you also.
I started whacking on my brugs today. No sense waiting, because it is going to happen and I wanted to have enough cutting material to take care of my trades. If we luck out, I'll still see blooms, but right now it isn't looking too good, especially living out here in the country with very little wind protection. Oh well, next year may be a better year.
It gets very tiresome to spend all my time on my plants to only have them bud at ..take in time.I have way too many other plants. Gonna thin the herd Tuesday when I'm off again.
I'm same boat bud wise,what makes me real mad is we will be sitting in T-shirts at Thanksgiving,Indian fall,our trees have not started to turn yet,even a little...
Hang in there Kyle.
I'm with Brugie and Kyle. This is my first year and it may be my last with brugs,it has been very dissappointing. They take so much work and fertilizer and water and then you have the bugs attack them. I have a dr. suess loaded to the hilt and it is so cold they won't even open. Plus others in the garden, lots with blooms and some have just y'ed. I started cutting today too. Plus brought three big potted brugs inside for the winter. I am not ready for this, it is too soon for summer to end.
We are all in the same boat. I have about 20 planted in the ground. Most are full of buds, have never seen them bloom before, some are seedlings, some I have had over a year. There is nothing I can do about it.
I do have my potted ones with buds under porch roof, close to house, some in GH and garage, some inside, I will see some blooms. This is my second BAD year in a row, no blooms at all last year.
Hibiscus: oouch!!! Now that would hurt. Makes ya almost wanna give up.
Well, I feel better now, seeing I am in good company! There might be a few weeks left until the frost here, but from October 15 until Hallowe'en is about it for the growing season. Maybe I should switch to Iochromas? Less room, water, fertilizer...
I can see why it is so frustrating for some of you. It is very time-consuming, and there is a cost involved in raising brugs and then to find that you do not even reap rewards of your labor.
We're going to need an awfully big boat, there's a bunch of us! I have another month before everything comes in, but I brought in a handful of the most tender plants today. Root, we have the same kind of weather, we always get a freeze on MY birthday no less, then get another month of good weather. My DH has been promising me a greenhouse, and I've been filling it up all summer (like it wouldn't already have been full!). Guess what? It's almost time to bring everything in, and NO greenhouse yet. I've been teasing him about the mythical building that he's been talking about building for himself, guess my greenhouse is mythical, too! Kyle, you can't give up, next year will be better (now I sound like the sports fans with lousy teams).
I have only a three month growing season and had been dissappointed so many years but still enjoy my plants!
Maybe we could put together helpful hints so you all can hit the ground running as soon as it is safe to get the brugs growing in the early early spring to give you all more time.
I know from chatting all the time with Brugie and Gloria how hard they work for their brugs and how frustrated they get. It just does not seem fair!
I'll keep right on pluggin'. Just one bloom and I'm hooked again. Love them, they are so beautiful and smell good too!
I'm so sorry for all you Northerners. We are getting loaded down with buds and blooms now and should have them through November unless we get a early frost. Don't give up Kyle we have had a rough year here too.
Yep, we all had the weird things happen this year....but there's always a brighter day around the corner!!!
"eyes"
Yes, so far I have been lucky no frost yet. Actually beautiful fall weather, but I know it can't last. As the rest of you in northern area, my brugs are at last loaded with buds, with practically no blooms before. I have moved two into the greenhouse along with about 15 of the seedlings. Still 10 or so waiting to see if I can find room. Today was 82 degrees, but weather man says 70s for rest of week and low 40s at night. Oh well. Donna