.....ER...I mean ..I have a Brug blooming...Oh Heck...I have a bloomin'Brug blooming!!! LOL It is a White Monster....I am so excited! Jo
I HAVE A BLOOMIN' BRUG!!
.....and here's where I got it!! Farizona met me and TombstoneJan for lunch yesterday and brought this lovely Brug to me....she though I should be able to at least see one blooming in my life time...I am going to try my best not to kill it!! Jo
Oh Jo, how exciting for you! It looks like a really healthy brug - - I'll keep my fingers crossed for you. Nat
edited because I can't spell - - lol
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Thanks, Nat...I will need more than luck I'm afraid. Jo
How wonderful. This is what Dave's Garden is all about. Sharing God's gifts with each other, Brugs, wisdom, experience and Love.
How nice. You will always remember the great gift you got from a great friend.
How sweet of Frances to bring ya a brug.(thinking Frances what have you done?) lol. Jo you won't kill it. We have faith in you.
Hi Jo, Isn't it exciting when we see that first bloom. I had four of my seedlings bloom out recently. I was a little dispointed because they all turned out white, but it was so exciting to watch them grow and form those first buds. Now I have two crosses with buds on them, so I am anxiously waiting to see how they turn out.
Congratulations !!
Patricia
Jo - We got our eyes on you... No brug abuse will be tolerated!! It's a beautiful plant. I bet it smells wonderful too.
Hi Jerodsmom...I am Jareds Grandma!! LOL Yes...I think it is exciting...but just wish I could take the credit for it...but Farizona gets the credit. Jo
Congrats Jo, Are you hooked on the scent yet?
Just think, you've beaten GW at something, she hasn't smelled a brug yet...Have you Kimberly?
Congratulations Jo on your first bloomin Brug.
And look at all that pollen in there. Looks like such a great plant. Compact and full of buds. Enjoy!
Jo you are a lucky duck! I still havn't smelled a blooming brug even though I DID have two of them bloom. Neither of my bloomers had any scent at all. Someday soon I hope to smell one blooming.
If that is Monster Brug White Suavelons Hybrid it is from my plant. It is hard to kill. Beware is grows to be massive in size thus the name I gave it. It grows anywhere to about 15' wide to 12' to 15'tall and it Y's, Y's, and Y's some more. It is heavily scented and not much of anything bothers it. I have had nearly 200 blooms on her at one time
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DonnaB...yes, your's is the Mother plant as that is what Frances told me. I look forward to a lot of blooms and it has lots of buds.now...can I somehow save all that lovely pollen for a future use...? How? Do I freeze it? HELP!!
Roadrunner you have to ask someone else. I don't hybridize. I just grow for the beauty, smell, and food for the night moths.
Oh no Jo!... it sounds like your getting the fever :-) We will have to teach you how to pollinate.
I pluck the anthers out of the blooms with tweezers. I put them in cupcake liner papers to dry out on my counter for a day or two. Then they go into little seed bags to be stored in the freezer for later.
For you to pollinate your flowers you'll need pollen from a brug that is geneticly different than the one you have. Want me to send you some pollen to play with?
Sue what are seed bags? So you freeze your anthers also?
Donna yours is such a healthy looking beauty brug. I love it when brugs have such beuatiful green leaves with bright flowers hanging amongst them. Suddenly all my Rosamond leaves on all my plants are lackluster. So sad.
Kell, didn't I send you some of the little plastic bags that you can put seeds in? If I didn't, I sure meant to. They come in different sizes, but I think mine are about 2x3 inch or something like that. Let me know if you need some and I'll stick some in the mail.
Yah Kell, the little zipper bags. I freeze the anthers whole and use the anther as my paint brush when I pollinate. I've tried taking the pollen off with a paintbrush but it seems like all the pollen ends up in the bristles of the brush and I hardly have any left to save.
No Brugie, you sent me the bigger bags to stick my rooting cuttings in. That would be great if you would share a few. thanks so much.
Sue, don't the bottom part of the anthers rot and break off?
What a wonderful gift to receive! Enjoy it.I have a white Suav. too,and I loved it all summer long in front of my door.Unfortunately I went away for a week and well,that's another story,lol.
Poppysue...if I take the antlers out of the bloom will the bloom die? When do I cross pollinate?
I bought some of the little bags at the flea market while in TN...and some when I was in Fla. They are so handy...I take a picture of the flower/gourds whne I can and include one in the little bag with the seeds...shows just what the seed will produce.
Thanks all for the help. Jo
The flower won't die Jo but sometimes it gets a little mangled if you man-handle it too much. I know I've torn the bloom before by accident. I try to pollinate as soon as bloom opens up but I know some people pollinate before the bloom is fully open.
so....I need to pollinate THESE blooms, right?? If so, you better rush me some pollen...LOLI still have lots of buds that I hope will open.
A friend here says she has a red one, and promised to start me one and she wants one of these. Jo
I'll put some pollen in the mail tonight when I go to work!
Poppysue...Thanks you...and I will try to do this!! I think I will try to save some pollen too...Jo
Hi Jo, This is Rosalie in Palominas, AZ. Guess we are almost neighbors !!!
I will have several large white
brug plants available for adoption.
I need to make room for more brugs and seed starting soon.
If you hear of a possible adoptive family let me know.
I just CANT throw them out !!!
Thanks,
Rosalie
Rosalie....I have tried to email you through Dave's Garden. Did you get it? Will you email me at rdrnr@c2i2.com.....?? I have a lot of Brugs that was sent by a freind to take to the Arizona Round Up next Saturday...and I wanted you to go with us. Hurry! Email me!! Thanks. Jo
P.S. Farizona is here with me today and she can attest that my White Monster STILL LIVES!!! LOL
WOW Donna!!!!My Monster White Cutting Is Gonna Look Like That?????
Yep, Jo's White Monster is "alive and well".
Probably she is getting the green thumb now. LOL.
Practice makes perfect they say. I am still working on it,
though.
With 'Tessa and the brugs, Jo will have a busy winter.
Awwww
.....come on you guyz........keep teasing' me with this one, ya know I love white and BIG. Now I will not be able to sleep till I get one =(
She's gorgeous :P
Shirley ( member of B.A.A. )
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Scooterbug e-mail me. I have not even made a dent in her yet with all the cuttings I have made. Be glad to send you some. Yep in about 2 years she will this big Bambi if she likes where you put her. She grows this big from being cut to the ground every year. So make sure to put her where she has room to grow. I have her where she gets bright light all day and about 3 hours of late afternoon sun.