I honestly can't believe I did something so stupid, but I guess the reason it took this one so long to root is that its upside down :-( I checked the other slow ones very carefully and they are all right side up... What do I do now? Is it salvageable? Thanks as usual for anyone and everyone's help here!!! Gretchen
If it has well rooted, you dont have to turn it. The sprouts will grow upwards.
Gosh Gretchen.....LOL...I wouldn't have better known either....hope you can turn it around....
Dee
Not stupid, it is an easy mistake! It will be fine, sort of like using the "log" rooting method...the plant will just grow to the light anyway!
Thank you Monika! It has been in the pot since 12/24. I haven't un-potted it to see how well its rooted. Should I?
Wow, I'm surprised it would even root upside down! No wonder it took so long...
Thank you all!!!
I think probably everyone here has done that a time or two......... **Giggle** It is obviuosly ok, it is sending out new growth, I would just leave it alone.
Thank you all so much! I was panic stricken when I realized what I'd done. I appreciate you all so very much!!! Gretchen
Gretchen, it looks very good. I would leave it like it is.
You may have the first brug with flowers that point upward ;-)
LOL!!Padre,will that make it a Dat?
LOL! Padre -- too funny! That would be one for the record books, huh? Not really the way I want to be remembered....................Gretchen
Monika -- thank you for your advice -- its going to stay just like it is until ready to be potted up to a one-gallon.
That's funny. I did it once but caught it before it actually had time to root.
I wish I had caught it... the really funny thing is on these "big sticks" that I bought from an e-bay seller, In waiting for them to show signs of life, I have even pulled them out of the pots and cut the scab off several of them two more times before they began to root. This was one of those that I did that to, and I can't believe I didn't notice. They were all hollow at the top, but the bottom was solid, so I kept thinking I could get them going -- what did I have to lose at that point? Well it worked on all but one so far, and even on this one-upside down. Too funny. Just another case in point to not give up on "big sticks" LOL!
Gretchen, wonder if that is what I did with those big sticks I threw away from the same Seller. They didn't root, and when I pulled them out they were hollow. Maybe I planted them upside down also. I've been known to do dumber things than that. lol
Maybe so Sylvia -- but they are all hollow on top -- even this one! I'm just glad I didn't give up on them... How are your seedlings doing? Mine are just showing their leaves -- so exciting.
Gretchen, sorry to say you won't be the first with upward pointing Brugmansia flowers! There are at least two which challege that characteristic as seperating the Brugmansias from the Daturas. Both are Brugmansia aurea hybrids: 'Avalon', hybridized by L. Schneider, and 'Bambina', bred by E. Duback.
Glad to hear it! But, I bet theirs didn't happen this way, ddid they?
Probably not, but it was no doubt a surprise anyway!
LOL...Great post Gretchen!...this exact topic has crossed my mind a time or two - now I also know what to do when this happens to me!....lol.
well I would say you have an extra magic touch :) -----
The flowers are not going to point upwards. It will develop a normal growth and flowering habit. In a year, you will not notice anymore, that the top was mistakenly rooted instead of the bottom.
No Monika, I didn't think so - I thought they were just joking about the direction of growth. I am just so surprised that it is growing like this, but it is :) No wonder brugs are so easy to root.
On another note, the piece I cut off this when I was trying like heck to get it going, I stuck in a pot "log style", rather than throw it away, and lo and behold I discovered yesterday it has sprouted leaves! Again, thank you all for your advice, comments and light moments!
Two lessons that I've learned from this are:
1. If I get a cutting that's not already beginning to root, I will divide it between the nodes and start it log style. From what I've read, I think you end up with a prettier plant, and you can get more plants that way, depending on the length of your cutting.
2. If I plant it log style, there is no way it can be planted upside down!
Gretchen
Of course Padre was joking that the flowers would also change direction. And I was pointing out that such flowers already do exist in the Brug world, however.
LOL
Have so many going here . . . probably do have one upside down!
That's what I meant, Gretchen. The bottom was hollow. lol
The only seedlings I have leaves on are the hollyhocks, no brugs or dats yet.
OMG I have seedlings coming out of my ears! I have 40+ brugs that have sprouted and this morning I transplanted 10 to 4" pots, rw and all!
Sylvia: The ones in the little white pots are the "big dead sticks" and all of these are very much alive. In fact a couple of them are getting root bound!
Looking good, Gretchen. You are going to be in brug heaven in a few months. Go girl!
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I need your greenhouse, I need your greenhouse, I need your greenhouse. You hear me, I need your greenhouse.
And, I need a bigger one!
Ok, then give me yours, already filled. lol Boy it really does look good. You've got that magic touch. You should see my brugs. Poor little things.
When the days get longer and warmer, Sylvia...you'll be in business :)
I know, just will take longer than yours. You are going to having blooming brugs in no time and you'll be doing that happy brug dance all around your yard. lol
Was thinking the same thing, minni; my brugs look terrible right now! Won't be long now!
Here is my Milk and Honey that was planted upside down. It looks pretty good considering...
And here is the other end of it that looks even better LOL!
Lol! Yes - it looks great! I'm glad it knows which way is up ;)
Me too :)
Hello: I have two brugs overwintered indoors.Is it normal for them to produce leaves.They are producing leaves toward the top of the plant.what advice can somone share with me about what the plant looks like when it forms the so called Y?I am new at this.Thanks!
