This is the right side of the Greenhouse
In the Greenhouse
And this is the left side with potted cuttings and seedlings
You've been busy Monika. They are looking good.
Middle table
it gives you all a idea, what I did in the last weeks.
Remember the fall thread with the cuttings, all being placed in water glasses to root? These are the cuttings now, rooted and in pots.
Ok, you shame me. I must go out now and take care of my babies! Too think of all the blooms to be in that GH blows my mind!
Monika...it looks like your cuttings have many branches off of them. Is that a good way to try and get a cutting? The ones I have seen have been just straight branches. It seems like doing it your way, would let them become fuller faster.
The cuttings are made mostly out if the flowering region. I make cuttings from the first Y on upwards. The first Y is included.
Monika...So then, does the part that is left after you do the cutting, have to grow a new Y before it can flower?
My word! They look so healthy and happy! What a wonderful prelude to big ol blooms!!
Wow, Monika. I sure would like to go shopping in your greenhouse. They look great.
Almost all those leaves look soft and fuzzy...is it just my imagination?
Or is it something that carries in your breeding lines?
I love soft and fuzzy.....
It's brugland there :)
Looking good Monika. You have been a busy girl. I just have to say I admire the work and effort you put into brugs. I'm not sure that I could be that dedicated if I faced your weather environment. I could, but not sure that I would. I guess my weather has spoiled me. Most everything grows here for 7 or 8 months out of the yr.
You have been very busy.
picturelady, the part, that is left, has to grow new sprouts, which have to form a Y in order to bloom. If the part left is a part of the flowering region, you will see small sprouts with an Y but also tiny sprouts without Y but buds. I will post a picture of it for you as soon, as the buds are better visible.
Monika posted: If the part left is a part of the flowering region, you will see small sprouts with an Y but also tiny sprouts without Y but buds.
Is there a way to help or groom a plant to make Ys????? And, if there is, when should it be done and exactly how is it done???? Thanks, SherryLike
Thank you very much Monika...I would really like to see a picture of what you are talking about! It is hard to imagine...I think a cutting that I am rooting has come from the flowering region...the Y that was on it got soft and I cut it off. There are a number of places on the cutting that are starting to get green. Should I remove those green sprouts and just let the highest one form a Y ? Would those green sprouts be leaves or bloom buds?
I do have your book ordered and I really hope all of this is explained in it.
I am not sure if this will help.
Here is a yearling,you can see the Y,I am going to shape it some.
These are cuttings above the Y,from the flowering region.
OK...doc...I think I am starting to get it...now if the tree was very large is there a chance that one of the cuttings from the flowering region could have a Y up about 3 feet when planted? I guess what I am wondering...is if you just have a cutting with a Y about 3 feet high...is there a way to tell which region it came from?
I am sure there is a way,but to my knowledge,they continue to kick out Ys,so if your cutting is a flowering region cutting,it may have grown 3 ft before it decided to Y again.
are you lost? I am!LOL!
The leaves of the flowering region are smaller and the leaf halves are asymetrical.
Most hybrids form two or three Y and then continue to grow straight.