My EP is dropping its buds!! I think it is still too cold for it. I may have some frozen. I will have to look. I could kick myself, for last year when I was in a clear out the brugs mood, I gave a friend's daughter a huge EP in full bud. It must have had more than 30 buds. It had not registered on my brain that EP had good genes. I keep asking the Mom how it is doing but the way she acts I think it is a goner. I hope the daughter did not just toss it.
Susie, that poor yellow seedling had one accident after the other last year. It got decapitated! You got one of the Ys, Tracey got the other (hers was in 2 pieces) and I have the third. I also have the long Y-less trunk. No buds in sight. But you are right, that would be a good one!
Margie, most is just common sense. This is not a hard plant to grow. Just keep them watered well and feed them what ever you have on hand when you remember.
The hardest part for me is learning to transform them into a Monika alley tree. A good one! There are layers of knowledge with them as with anything. As you grow them and get experience, things become more clear to you. You need to just watch your plant and respond to it. Doing what I do or what anyone esle does is not necceasrily what your plant needs.
Monika grows hers to perfection. If you look at her brugs it is an art form. Get her book and she gives all the basics to emulate. I find that as things come up with a particular brug, it is her incredible knowledge that helps me. Read everything she posts when she responds to individual problems. It is her eye you want to look thru. It is not so much being able to tell you specific things beyond the basics of food and water, but how you recognize and respond to each of your brugs needs as time passes. I find my brugs do best when I get in tune with them.
I hope this made sense!
