Mine will be in three different rooms. Kitchen, basement, and a spare room. I'm also going to try a couple in the garage.
Where is everyone keeping their brugs this winter?
Have you beat....I'll have some in each of these places.
Jim's shop will have about six, plus bananas and heliconias.
Familyroom....most of the cuttings
Livingroom bay window and on the floor under lights....older cuttings
Computer room....some new cuttings and seedlings (this is where my heat mat is set up)
Basement.....Several under lights
Right now I am close to having 150 cuttings going that are just recently started. Have another 20 that are older and well rooted. I've lost my mind, but after I get a well rooted cutting from each kind I've started, I'll give the rest away. Then maybe we will be able to see out the windows for a while. I'm already looking forward to spring and working in the greenhouse.
I will be keeping my in the Garage, Livingroom, and the Bedrooms with some other plants when I am force to bring them all in.
I'll keep mine in the hoophouse, patio room and the garage.
Garage, enclosed breezeway, diningroom table south/east light(these are my favorite ones), will try to get them to bloom this winter. Then backroom, no heat, lot of south/west window light. Birdroom, under three different florescent lights. Enclosed backporch, lot of windows.
Phew! Do think it's time to get rid of something? Maybe DH? Naw, I need him!
Sunporch, livingroom, kitchen and 6 trees in the end of my bedroom. They will all go out to the GH in Feb.
John, you are so lucky to live where it is so nice and warm. I don't envy you all the rains you had this year, but it sure would be nice to be able to leave things outside all of the time.
Gloria, you have me beat. I don't know why I'm growing all the brugs I am and you must be worse off than me. Keep Ed. You would miss him.
John, why I outta!!Nuck Nuck!
I am going to bury a couple under the front porch,as an experiment,other then that,basement(lights),livingroom,and diningroom.
Where are you moving to Doc? You have about as much room in your house to live as we do. I think you have more plants though.
All of mine with the exeption of HG will stay right where they are in the ground. HG will be wintered over in the gh.
As for the other 75-80 varieties,well that's just too many to try and deal with so i'm taking cuttings from each that will also go in the gh and give me somehting green to start with in the spring.
My HG has been dug and potted and in the gh for almost 2 weeks now. It shed a few leaves but has since put on some new flower buds that have made it farther than any of the spring buds ever did. Got my fingers crossed that these might make it and i'll get to see some blooms on this sucker.
I have to keep all mine, including cuttings, on my covered pation up close to the house wall. Hope they make it. My DH absolutely refuses to let me bring any of them into the house. I think I'll put his golf clubs on the patio with the plants. lol
Use the clubs to stake them up........
Most of my Brugs & 'nanas will go into the sunroom and smaller ones will go into the basement near grow lights.
You're brilliant Crested Chick. Maybe he'd let me bring them in then. lol Actually we have a perfect place for some of them. We have a 30' hall with a large window that runs from our kitchen to the door into the garage. If I could find some plant stands to line up along the wall, I could put a lot of them there. I don't have any large ones, except the 2 that are planted in the ground. He is just so bah humbug about my bring plants in the house.
Gosh, if he plays golf, he should not complain about your raising plants. My husband doesn't really like the house being full, but he deals with it because he knows it is what I love to do. Hey, how about the old two choices thing. Either shelves down the hall or a greenhouse outside. Now, there is an idea. Why don't you enclose the covered deck with some clear plastic for the time you are concerned about. Wouldn't have to be permanent. How was this for rambling?
I have 3 five footers that I bought this summer. One in livingroom, one in the den and one in the second floor bedroom. All my cuttings from the wonderful people here are in the kitchen.
last yr we built a hoop off the gh this yr we are refining that idea and adding another hoop off the house for my nannas that are in the ground. i should fit everything in all that. this yr lol.
Right now I have two large brugs in the GH, plus about 25 potted seedlings. Then there are the one dozen not potted cuttings from Catsmeow waiting for roots and potting, all in the GH. I keep the temp at just above 50 degrees in the GH all winter. I guess i will have to move some of them into the Bonsai storage room. It is the north room of the garage, insulated and I can turn on a heater if the weather gets too cold. I brought a large pot of CG into the dining room the day before i left for Reno. It was loaded with buds and I wanted to see them bloom. I turned the inside temp. down to just above 60, but it dropped all the buds and most of the leaves. I don't really understand why, anyway it is kind of sad looking so may just dump it. Have cuttings rooting of CG. In the GH is the 4 ft. tall Pink Beauty and the more than 3 ft. tall Snowbank. I did want to see blooms of both but still can't see any buds. Donna
I have all mine in our Master bedroom next to the sliding glass door that has a southern exposure. Thanks to Calalily I went from two brugs to many this year. And that is NOT a complaint. The only complaint I have is my Eric's white had buds on it for the first time in two years and frost took them away from me. I am starting to think I will NEVER smell a brug. lol
Shirley, I've been thinking about the clear plastic idea for years for all my plants during the Winter. The patio is only open on two sides and it should be fairly easy to do. My husband doesn't go for it though. He would rather I just got rid of all my plants. I guess all men can't be like my father was. He absolutely loved plants. I remember he spent all of his spare time rooting cuttings, planting seeds and tending both the flowerbeds and his vegetable garden. I can't even get my husband to mow the grass. Oh well, he's wonderful in all other ways. I guess you can't have everything. lol
mini, you aren't the only one with a husband that isn't thrilled with all the plants. besides all my brugs that I need to overwinter, I have about 250 hoya plants that are in a hot house right now. We are moving in about a month and my new hothouse won't be built when we move. My husband just told me last night that he doesn't want my plants in the house. I don't have a clue what I am going to do with all of them.
Glad I'm not alone, but is frustrating isn't it.
Sylvia and Patricia, hang in there. Things have a way of working out. If you once get those brugs to bloom and he sees them Sylvia, maybe he won't be such a grump about plants. Patricia, I hope you will have enough warm weather for your hoyas until you can get the GH built. Would be a shame to lose them to the cold.
Hope your right, Shirley. The only one I have that is large enough to bloom is the one I call old faithful gold, that was purchased as pink. It has grown huge this year and is absolutely covered with blooms right now. He even went out and took a couple of pictures of it yesterday, and for him that is really something.
See, he is gradually getting there. Jim used to complain about the water bill, but after this summer and my ability to justify paying a high one, he has settled down and says nothing now. He does like the brugs, he just hates to admit it.
In the yard heavily mulched. But I am worried about my cuttings I planted two months ago i don't know if they have had enough time to set roots well enough for winter yet. I usually just bury a cutting two feet in the ground and start looking for green leaves peeking out after the first frost in late May or june of the next year, did i make since i almost confused my self here It's late i better go to bed now good night everyone.........
I'm glad I'm the Husband!,Although I did have to drag some cuttings to her boss,He had no clue,she is german,so I gave her a website and some cuttings.next Monika's book,and she will not need the translation.(another one hooked)
Edited to say,as DH bring the flowering branches in first,LOL!
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bruggie (and others interested in my offer)
Send me your excess cuttings, and maybe duplicates of all the varieties you have, I'll act as your reserve bank to ensure you won't lose any during the winter and have them back in the Spring. Here in Sunny California I grow and propagate them year round. Fall and winter are actually the best time for rooting cuttings here (I use bottom heat to germinate seeds and spur root formation). In the spring, when the weather permits, I will send you, when your weather permits, at your request, fresh cuttings, rooted cuttings, or actually fully grown plants from the plants or cuttings you send me. My motive is not selfless: I would get some new varieties from which I could propagate for myself. Of those I already have, it would just be a pure service to you.
mine are going into the greenhouse and then if I need a bit more room, I have a cold room in the house where I kept several trees last year.
Thanks for the offer, but they are in the house now and as soon as they are rooted, I'll thin them out some. I'll be fine. In fact, this is my only way of gardening during the months that I can't be outside. I'd be in big trouble if I didn't have the plants in the house, even tho I complain about not being able to see out.
Shirley, you mentioned "nannas"??? As in Bananas? Can you grow those up north and get fruit, then bring them in the house?
Karrie, my bananas are just ornamental. I'm going to try one that is dwarf and supposed to produce edible bananas in 18 months. The plant stays small enough that I think I can find a sunny spot for it in the house, or at least put it under light.
Let me know where you get it and if it's something I can order! I'm interested!
Logee's has them, but I think mine is coming from a friend in Florida.
I just checked out Logee's site. Not a bad price for that MUSA CAVENDISH (the one I think you are talking about that produces bananas). I sent them an email asking if I, in zone 5b could grow it year after year in a container if I brought it in during the winter. It would make an attractive houseplant during that time.
That is what I'm going to do Karrie. With luck, it will make it.
The cool basement here..a few cuttings are upstairs..but very few..too many spider mites that way.