I've acquired a couple of cutting's off a friends trumpet and it has formed roots and has leave's....my question is, will it be safe in my zone 8b to go ahead and plant these in the ground now???? Is it too late in the season to do it?
I plan on taking them in when it get's colder, but that may be a long time from now...you never know with the weather as crazy as it is these days.
Thanks in advance :)
Is it too late in the season plant a cutting with...?
I would go to a pot with it,I am not in your zone,but this late,it may not take well enough to overwinter. I would play it safe.
thanks RootDoc, I think that's what I'll do. I think rather than take the chance of losing it, I'd plant it in a pot and maybe put outside so I can bring it back inside. Thanks for your help and advice. :)
I agree with Root for sure. Its too hot for them to develop a substantial root system before your first freeze. Gretchen
Thanks Gretchen. You're right, it's very hot here too.
Unfortunately, I won't be able to put some in pots that I really want to save and I'm planting some very late. I guess I'll see, for sure, which ones will make the cut in my area. I cannot imagine how I'm going to be able to manage all of them inside this winter. How much light do they need and how often should they be watered?? I brought ten pots of Upees inside last year and they did fine, near a west window, but very little light, with occasional watering...
Sherry, what you did with your Upees is the same with Brugs (angel trumpets) Very little watering and not alot of light. I'm sure someone will come along and maybe share more to this than I can. But that's what I plan on doing myself. I have this room off of my screened backporch that serves as my aviary for my birds, and this room is a stairway up into my house which is pretty dim with light in there. I have shelves on my walls in there and that's where I intend to put mine over the winter. I'm going to go ahead and plant outside the one's I spoke of but keep them inside a pot so I won't have to disturb the roots when it does get cold outside.
You should have no problems saving your's where the Upee's are over the winter. :)
Yes, Linda, my original, unnamed brug wintered outside just fine last year and my nursery guy has wintered his outside for X number of years and he's never lost a single one and he does zero(!), doesn't even add extra mulch.... As we speak, I have a diva war going on in my 'special' brug bed. I love Rosemond and she was, and maybe still is, my fav brug - I gave her the best spot in the garden, I watered her first, fed her first, you get the drill. Then, I went to NY for a week. When I returned, I could not believe my eyes - there was Pink Beauty, Butterfly & Isabella, waiving in the breeze and growing by leaps and bounds!! Pink Beauty has really pushed Rosemond and Pink Beauty is definitely taller (a smidgen), her leaves are bigger, she is fully packed and very healthy. Rosemond has only one advantage, she has already bloomed three times, and, my goodness, does she ever Lord it over the others, whew. This is really a girlie brug race, I cannot wait to see who will be the real diva, this is such fun!!!! These girls are really flirts, they will be difficult to judge...
Heck, Linda, I let my fingers get away from me, I meant to ask what kind of birds do you breed??? I plan to get an Electra(sp), but I'm booked right now and will have to wait a while...
lol Sherry, my name is Julie but thats ok. I'm not breeding them...but I have 3 birds. They are rotten too. My first was a green-cheeked conure, which is small and very sweet...to me only though and her name is Maggie, lol....then we got my 2nd bird, her name is Ruby, and she's an African Grey Timeleh (sp?) lol, who is also very temperamental, then she bit right through my lip and peirced it free for me Grrrrrrrrrrrrr, wasn't expecting that AT ALL...she got a taste for blood and turned on me after I screamed and scared her to death, then the 3rd one is the same....African Grey Timeleh (sp?) and her name is Gabby and oh my goodness, does she gab her head off...just like her moma...me!
That is an awesome story about your brug diva war going on lol....keep me posted on the winner! lol That is too cute. Thanks for sharing that. I would love to see pictures too :)
Julie/Brugaddict
Man, oh, man, I had you mixed up with ahelms, Ada, or ahughes, Linda. Sorry, girls!! You are a dolly, JULIE, whew - not shouting, just happy to get the right name, at last!!
Ooops, I have a correction, the brug Isabella, I mentioned, that is in the diva contention, was not Isabella, but Rosebella. Geeze, could I feel the tension when I checked the 'girls', they are serious! The truth is that Isabella is in the 2nd garden - but she is waving a flirty handkerchief, to let me know that she has every intention of becoming a diva!! I intend to give her the opportunity. Sorry for the error...I sincerely hope that both Isabella and Rosebella will forgive me - neither have bloomed and I hope this is not a setback, oh, well...
Okay, I have a question. I'm sure the answer is somewhere in another thread but you guys sound like you could answer. I have three brugs in the ground and plan to leave them there for the winter. Do I have to cut them back almost to the ground or do you only do that if you want cuttings in case it doesn't make it? In other words, will it die down anyway if I don't trim it down? And if I do have to trim it down, how far to the ground? (I'm still a newbie if you couldn't tell.) :)
Be sure to take a cutting or two in case the brug in the ground doesn't come back next spring. I've heard that they take longer to bloom when coming back from the roots, but in Iowa, there is no chance for any brug to survive outside. Guess I can't answer your question, but for looks..........I'd probably cut it back after the first killing frost.
Thank you, Shirley. Do you have any idea when I should expect to start seeing growth in the Spring if they make it?
Terrie
Terrie, maybe someone who has actually grown them this way could help you with an answer for that question. I really have no idea other than to say that it took about a month for a couple of mine to come out of complete dormancy. By that I mean that they got cold enough in the garage last winter to die back almost totally. I was ready to toss them and just didn't get it done. They finally came back. I did lost one, but had I waited a little longer, it may have come back too.
That's sort of what I was thinking. I know there are a few other things that take awhile to show any growth. I dug up and threw away a star hibiscus a couple of years ago because it wasn't doing anything and then I found out it doesn't start sprouting until mid to late May. Just don't want to make that mistake with my brugs. Maybe someone in my zone will know. Thanks!
Terrie
Terri, mine wintered outside last year and while I don't remember exactly when they started to sprout, I do know that they were ahead of my Upees that generally sprout about the last of April. My brugs, caladium, and Upees like the ground pretty warm before they sprout. When the brugs did come up, they grew by leaps and bounds, the pace of their growth just did not appear possible...however, my brugs that wintered outside did not bloom as quickly as my others which were rootings, purchased, etc, as some of those started blooming as soon as I got them planted. When my wintered outside brug did start blooming, it's been almost non stop. My plan is to winter everything I have in the ground outside and I'll take in cuttings for a head start in the spring...
Sherry,
Thanks for the information. That helps a lot. The only other question I have (for now) is when do you cut yours back (that are in the ground) and how far do you cut them back?
trunnels, I didn't cut mine back. The main reason I didn't is because we didn't have a killing frost until the end of Dec and I preferred the green and occasional blossoms, rather than sticks, and I had blossoms up to the 4th or 5th of Dec (unusually mild fall). When, I finally cut them back, I left about three feet outta the ground. Then, in the spring, I thought maybe I had left too much standing and that it might be making them slower to take off, so I cut the whole thing down to about five or six inches. I will tell you that's when the brug took off, but I think my grooming it down and the new growth following so quickly, was just a coincidence. If I remember, I'll let you know when I'm going to cut them back this year. I've heard we are supposed to have yet another mild winter, I dunno...
Thanks, Sherry. I'll keep this thread on my watch list!
Terrie
Can I ask all of you a question? I don't have any brugs yet, but hope to.
Has anyone tried leaving them in the pot and burying the pot (after cutting them back) just to keep the "feet" warm? Seems like it would help protect them until Spring.
Jay (Smooth is my dog's name)
Jay, there is, some place, a thread about leaving them in the pot and all sorts of different ways they can be potted but I'm not sure which thread it is. Try search and you might find it. I'm not sure which zone you are in, but I'm in 8a and I plant them directly in the ground and, so far, they come back in the spring. This year I'll take cutting is for a backup. What I'm trying to do is see which ones make it through the winter and do well, bloom well, smell good, etc, and those are the ones I'll keep. Hope this helps, I'm a newbie, taking a break from digging holes to plant more brugs...