I had a bucket of cuttings (hard and green) from Logee's Pink Beauty sitting in my kitchen by a heat vent. I made a mental note to make sure that I moved them. Of course you know I forgot. Just checked on them and they are mushy and gross. Another group of cuttings that have been in a bucket of water in the cold garage are just fine and not a sign of rot. They look great actually. Last year I had the same thing happen when I put my cuttings that were in water on my heat mat- they rotted very quickly. The ones away from any direct heat lived in water almost all winter.
Anyone else notice this?
Observation on mass cuttings in water
I just had the same thing happen to me, but the brug was veriscolor peach. Changed the water daily, they were in my basement and they started to turn to mush. I cut off the mush and planted in soil. Hope they make it.
Yes, I have noticed the same thing. Cuttings in water in my home take a longer time to root with many of them rotting on the end, while those in water in my garage (avg temp is probably 60-65 degrees)root within a week.
One day soon I will have the same problem you guys are having.lol
Yes Dravencat - - come join the "does your brug do that" club.
Mine always do better in cool water.
I still have cuttings in a nearly cold garage that haven't rotted or rooted. Some in the house turn to mush right away. Those in the garage have had the water changed one time in the last month and the water is still good. Some of the cuttings are just beginning to show lenticels and some are just like they came off the trees. I decided to just leave them there and see what happens. Two or three of the cuttings are over three ft. long.
Mine root in water in about a week. Oddly, they root faster for me in a clear glass under lights, than in the dark as one might suppose. I try to use the woodier cuttings with the pre-lenticels showing, rather than the greenwood tip cuttings, which do turn to mush! Changing the water daily is a big help too.
Every year, I root many cuttings in cool to cold water.
Once a week, I check each glass if there are any cuttings which begin to rot. They will be removed, all water glasses are cleaned and refilled with fresh water. The cuttings stay in the water glasses until the end of Febr or Mid March, all depending,if the weather permits to pot and move them in one of the hoophouses.
Temperated water should be used for all versicolor cuttings, because they are sensitive. Temperated water lets bacterias and fungus explode. The result are rotting cuttings.
Temperated, is that lauwarm or heated?
I wonder if Mavie's method of changing the water everyday and adding a little hydrogen peroxide to the water to prevent fungus would work.
so I just took a bucket of cuttings out of the woodstove room and threw them in the garage....visions of green slime in my head....LOL
thanks for the heads up......
great info!
Gosh, I could save a lot of space by leaving them in water in the garage rather than potting them all up. I see something new in my future.
all of the cuttings that I had on that list for postage are in the gh sitting in water ,no sogn of rot and most of them have white nubbies on them. I've been checking them every day now for about 4 days.
They say that ignorance is bliss. 4 years ago, when I got my first brug cuttings in September (I think) I kept them in water until April! Sometimes I forgot to change the water, sometimes spider mites attacked, but it worked! They were in a tall clear vase in the kitchen, in front of a northern exposure window.
How lucky I was--they turned out to be my Star Dancer!
I always thought warm water was better! I'm glad to know differently. I think I'll try the bucket method for cuttings next year too.
Liz, lauwarm would correct LOL!
Our greenhouse was about 84° today with a fan running. The crazy weather here can be warm one day & cold the next. I hope they don't get too hot. The window & door is open with a fan running. We have moved a lot of plants into it as it is supposed turn cold tomorrow for at least 24 hours. This is our 1st year & I must say I'm a little scared *G* I keep telling myself they will die for sure outside this winter.. maybe have a chance now. I want to root some of my brugs but will it get too hot for them? Outside it could turn cold fast & then it would be too late. We will be leaving the 24 for a week but afraid to wait till we get back to cut some cutting from the brugs. Last year we left the same time & a frost took everything down. Is it better to root brugs in water or dirt?
The GH is filling up fast.
Now I'm really confused. I thought for some reason that it would be best to try to get cuttings to root in the perlite and sand mix that I usually use for rooting. After reading the above maybe I'm doing it all wrong. Or maybe it makes a difference if the cuttings are newly cut soft greenwood, or hardened cuttings.
David most of the cuttings you sent me are showing nice green leaf growth, two i think will not make it. One has been potted in soil and looks good so far. Thanks again, Donna
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Great thread! I will keep my cuttings in our laundry room downstairs, I think. Either that or see if my MIL would mind having some in the glass block window in her bathroom. ;)
What is Temperated water and what is versicolor brugs? (Sorry for the newbie question!)
Temperated water is lukewarm. Versicolor is one of the 7 brug species. No prob trunnels, we've all asked these questions.
Thanks, Liz. I guess what I should have asked is how do you know if your brug is a versicolor. I'm guessing there is someplace to look it up.
I had a bucket of cuttings in the cold garage all winter and they rooted and were fine until Spring. Right now I am rooting in water in the greenhouse and have not lost any to rot and it get's up to 90 in there some day's. I couldn't root a B. 'Golden Lady' for anything last fall, but I have found that if I pot them in straight perlite put them in a plastic bag with about1-2inches of water in the bottom they root fine. This method is also working great on greenwood cuttings which I have always had trouble with in the past.
Patricia
trunnels, if you go here, http://www.americanbrugmansia-daturasociety.org/aboutbrugmansia.htm, there is some pretty good info on identifying brugs.
maybe I can get someone to answer me here
Can you plant these cuttings at this time, and will they be ok to plant now in August/September???
Thanks, Liz!
BrugAddict, I don't know the answer to your question but I'm going to plant about 10 cuttings and I really hope they will make it through the winter...if they make it, I will take cuttings of all of them before the first killing frost...
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Does it snow were you are julie? or freeze a lot in the winter below 30 degrees? if so i would over winter in pots in side Gh or house or garage, if not then plant them and mulch really really good and just pray, most of my new cuttings last year made it over the winter in the ground, but it only came a hard freeze three or four times. but I have noticed that they have not accomplished alot of growth this summer and have yet to Y and bloom, and I am fertilizing them., I think a few even died after getting started back to growing this spring, so maybe they got stunted I,m thinking.? I do not think they had enough time to really get a good root system going before the winter put them to sleep.
I stick all cutting of the same type in seperate pails and keep the water clean and not in bright light or sun to much heat and they seem to cook.yuckkk.I have taken old fish tanks covered them with some craft foam that I put holes in one hole for each cutting stuck a cheap bubbler in it so that the water remains oxygenated, and have had wonderful results, not a one rotted and have roots on all.I have tryed this method several times and each time was very please with the out come. cinnabor