These all survived a heater failure this winter, they lost their growth tips and all foliage, but they are coming right out of it. These are the first round of Susie's seedlings, this next week I post a picture of Kell's babies!
Crop 1
Where are you keeping your magic wand?
I can tell I am going to have to bring the truck on our night raid!!!
They sure don't look like they went through any stress!!
Gosh yes, they look good. Especially after what they have been through. I would never have know that they had experienced stress like that.
Well, I have to say I was pretty surprized myself, I actually went into the office sat down and cried when I found the mess. I wondered how in the world am I going to tell Susie they froze! She was a trooper, all she said was, don't worry about it, we got more where those came from. All of the brug's got hit really hard, but the seedlings I never thought would recover, they were tiny then. My iochroma's looked terrible, they were sticks in a pot, but they look great and are starting to flower again. Root yes! Bring a truck! I need the room! Here is my new toy, Scott will never learn, if I go look I buy!
Nice Toy!! I am same way,when I look, I know what I want ,and have it already set in my mind!I buy!!
LOL My DH buys the trucks and cars and I buy the plants. Boy, do I ever buy the plants. I'd never want to sit down and figure up exactly how much I've spent on plants in the last 5 yrs. or so. He could probably buy a new truck. LOL
You are some lucky girl Tracey on all counts!
Nice truck. I kinda wish I had bought a black one instead of white, but I don't think it has to be washed as often. Not something I enjoy doing.
Tracey, you have your hands full with all those seedlings! And I just can't wait to see what you get!
They should turn out to be some sturdy brugs, after what they have been through. Probably end up being Giants!
They look awesome ...and I froze some babies too.......
I too froze some babies, so don't feel bad Tracey.
I do like your new truck.
You have the magic touch Tracey. Everything looks just great with what they have been through. I agree ... nice truck!
CC,I do not know how you didn't freeze all your babies!!
Hang in there CC!! Spring is coming!!
Your children look wonderful. Truck is nice too.
She really does have the magic touch huh, Deb? Babies are so cute!
Yes Kell ... she does! Everything looks so nice and healthy and raring to go!
Tracey, I have a alarm system that goes off when the temp in the greenhouse goes down to 35 degrees. Not sure what it's called, I'll have to ask hubby. But it has saved my plants several times, the alarm goes off in my bedroom, we have a back up propane heater if this happens. You can set it at what ever temp you like and it will let you know there's a problem with your heater.
Great looking plants, Tand beautiful truck.
They look very good Tracey! It seems, that you have warmer temps in you Gh, because they are quite big already.
I admire your truck but I have no drivers license. The rubber trees besides the road have not been planted yet for me LOL
Monika that took me a second....
LOL
Good one Monika!
Tracey, tell me ~ how low did your temps go for how long when the power went out?
OMG it took me a minute too, I even went back to look at the picture for what might look like a rubber tree!!!!!!! Monika don't feel bad, I have bounced off a tree or two! The greenhouses are much warmer now especially, we have so many plants to get up in size to sell, by April 15th. I know you all won't tell on me, so....... after the greenhouse freeze incident, I turned up the heat every time I went by it! We have those alarms, but unknown to me, they were not hooked up! CC does a wet chicken really get mad? Cause I was madder than one!
Boy, I need some of those rubber trees Monika. LOL!! Do they sell them full sized and ready to use. I'm afraid Jim is going to go right through the garage door one day.
Yup,a wet hen is a MAD hen!!!!!
I was confused when my babies froze,there was so much snow I never saw what the problem was till I moved the throth.....even after I thought I fixed it and moved the survivors to the middle I started loosing more plants....turns out that some how...no clue how ,but the screws that held the furring strips (that held the plastic down)all snapped,and I mean snapped...I don't know if it was the weight of the snow or the heat from the GH next to -25 temps the board warped and snapped the screws.........
Wow you sure are going to be busy this summer
-25 ?? Fahrenheit?? Amazing that they look as wonderful as they do. You must have an angel on your shoulder.
She does Miss Lizzy! A beautiful angel watching over all her little angels! LOL
My little angel is the local propane company!LOL
Of course ,for what I paid them this year they should be sending me Christmas cards
Good job Tracey! The babies look really loved.
CC, I would demand a christmas present not card! LOL
Tracey what is your secret your babies look so good and are so big keep up the good work beautiful;!!
Bump for Eva
Tracey, how quick do you pot up your seedlings? I have some that are in about quart pots, and they need watering so frequently in those now that it has warmed up, but they aren't root bound yet.
I had to do some serious pruning on some of my seedlings today. The problem.....I needed more room and by pruning, I could get them closer together. When I think about starting them from seed and getting them to bloom, taking cuttings and wintering them over and fighting bugs in between doing all the fertilizing, etc.....I've decided that brugs are a high maintenance plant. LOL!! Wouldn't have it any other way.
I went from cell packs to a 10" pot with these, and to a standard gallon with crop two. Some time very soon they are going into Seven gallon pots where they will stay till they bloom, because like you I am having to water very frequently. This picture was a few weeks ago, they are about double this now, taking a camera today!
Okay, well, I think I will just skip the quart pots then, and go directly to gallons from the seedling pots.