Several brug. seeds I forgot I had. I am going to have to ask the neighbors if I can use their yards. I am becoming overwhelmed.
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HoniBee, have you tried growing them in containers? That's what I have to do to find enough room in the sun. I find I can get blooms in even 3 gallon ones, as space is at a premium.
I just repotted an 8' seedling from last year that I grew in a one gallon pot half sunk in the ground. When I brought it into the greenhouse, I didn't cut the roots to the pot, I sunk the pot into a 3 gallon and covered the roots with soil (still in the one gallon pot)
I did almost 70 of them that way, and 90% of them bloomed.
Honibee you are going to have way too much fun when they start to bloom! nothing like being the first person to see a new brug bloom. tiG, i'm doing mine like you did yours, my seedlings, have the ground about ready for a bunch of them.
beware though, you will have to cut the pot off come next spring.
Join the club Honibee. I think that's part of the addiction... your brug eyes are bigger than your yard!
I have a few I need to cut the pots off too. It's hard to believe that such big roots can grow from those little holes.
Wonder how they would do if you planted the entire one-gallon container flush with the ground and still planned to dig it up in the fall. I can't decide whether to plant them like that or just take my chances and plant them permanently. I keep hearing people around here tell me that they will come back if I plant them permanently. Obviously I'd still take cuttings in the fall to insure that I'd be able to duplicate it just in case. My main concern is getting them under the soaker hoses, which are under the mulch...
Gretchen, they would do the same as what I did. the good thing about being able to dig them up pot and all, is I have trees ready to go out. They'll be in full bloom by april-may.
Thanks tiG. I'm definitely going to need a bigger GH and more 1 gallon pots! I have 54 seedlings that will need to be moved up from 4" before too long! I was going to just plant them, but now I think I'll do it your way. Less worry... Do you drill holes in the sides of your pots? Then the second year you cut them out of the one-gallon and increase the pot size to three-gallon and sink the new three-gallon pot in the ground? Does the pot size need to increase each year? Do you stake them to keep them from falling over? Sorry for all the questions....Thank you!!!
no extra holes in the one or two gallons. I did put one row of holes on the sides near bottoms of the three gallons. yes, I had to stake them. The ones I'm keeping, I'm moving to regular 5 gallon sunk with 2 rows of holes (remember, I didn't cut the roots, just dug them up). This way I could find out what was good without taking up tons of 5 gallon pots.
Thank you!!! I appreciate your taking the time to answer my questions :)
you're welcome. This is one that was done that way.
Ohhhh my! That is gorgeous! I love the deep dark pink! What is that?
Beautiful!! Someday hopefully I'll have one this beautiful!
I can't wait till I have a bloom!!
Bonnie
Gretchen, It's Mountain Magic.
tiG, what a beauty!!! Is that blooming now?
That's beautiful..
Snowhermit -- is that one of yours? I have seen a pic of it before and there are several "mountains" that I'm crazy about! Absolutely beautiful color!!!
Kaufmann, I live in 8a zone and having had nice weather last week was checking aroud my brugs that I cut back and left out and they are trying to put out new growth .The ones I have left out for past 4 years have always come back . I take cutting just incase though. I have lots in gallon pots that I have started this year and all seem to be doing okay, need to order more pots though. None of the fancys I see here but Love anyway. Yours would probaly over winter also.Carolyn
Carolyn: thank you for taking the time to comment. I am going to plant all in the ground except for a special few. Honestly, they probably have a better chance going dormant in the ground than if we had a power outage here and froze to death. That's been my fear all winter long. DH keeps promising me a "real" glass house, but until then... Anyway, you have a great day!!!
I was shocked yesterday when I found that my old Dr Seuss has new leaves sprouting from the roots already!! Seems like this is the earliest ever! He's been outside for about 6 years. Now we may get a freeze Tuesday night, guess I'd better cover him back up for a few more days.
Kauffmann, speaking of power outage, I had one in January during an ice storm. My daughter and grand daughters (thank God they live in town) helped me haul all my brugs (they know how much I love them) from the gh to the house. We put down layers of newspaper by the lr window and lined them all up (wish I had taken a picture). The power was off for 2 1/2 days and the temp in the house got down to 40. We all went to my other daughter's house (they had electricity) and stayed with them. When the power came back I had to haul them all back out, but did not loose any. I have some with buds (good old Frosty Pink and Dr Seuss), my first "winter blooms". edited for spelling
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Azalea,
My brugs are shooting up like crazy! Still short enough to cover with hay though. I just know we're bound to get another freeze or two here, it's just too early for this kind of growth, but look at the beautiful days we've been having. Azaleas are starting to bloom (one has been blooming a little since before Christmas and is now full bloom).
Kaufman, I have lost 2 in the past 4 years (and one of those had a sprout last fall, I think it had been "dead" for 2 years). Right now I have one that hasn't shown sprouts yet. Last year I sunk 4 in large pots in the ground thinking I would dig in the fall. Got lazy and left them in the ground. I have others that have been in the ground 3-4 years.
A couple of weeks ago I (with my son's help) moved a very large rootball (except it was quite long) of a Frosty Pink and it already has shoots coming out. I was concerned because we had accidentally cut off the large roots on one side, but I guess it's fine.
Thank you all for your help and comments! I appreciate all of you -- lhughes, that's wild -- so glad you saved them all!
Our weather is wacky too. I spent all day mowing, and this is the earliest I've ever had to. The oldtimers around here say all the signs are here that Spring has sprung, and I'm planting shrubs and perennials, but nothing else yet. We had a late (mid April) freeze last year and I lost a few things that didn't get covered.
Lucky you that you have grass to mow. Everything is still brown here. I love the smell of freshly cut grass. My rear gets tired of sitting on the lawn tractor, but right now, I'd be happy to give it a try if I just could get that grass to grow.
Shirley: I'd almost trade you places! I worked all morning disinfecting GH pots then all afternoon mowing and edging and more to do tomorrow. I have so many projects to get done before summer... new railings for the porch, spread driveway slag, paint the front door (the whole house needs to be painted, but I'm going to have to hire that out, as I won't go up a ladder that high). Since DH got sick, I get to do it all, and sometimes there really aren't enough hours in my days... So, now that the weather is better, I'm going to have fun trying to stay up with all these threads :)