this is a shot of the seedling brugs at the east end of my little GH. They seem to know that it is their last chance to show off. Donna
seedling brugs
They sure are blooming nice for you.
5a and still in bloom! You just can't beat that. Great picture.
Very nice.
That's quite a show for a seedling!
Thank you for all the nice comments. Yes, it is lucky that our weather has been warmer than normal, but now that it is finally raining I expect frost any time. Donna
rutholive, your brugs are way past outstanding, WOW!!! Makes me wish I lived in zone 5 a!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Donna, very nice light yellow..keep it over for better evaluation next spring. Heavy bloomer for a seedling. :-)
They look great, Donna! Congrats -- all your hard work has paid off, huh? Way to go!!!
I've noticed that mine are definitely happy with the cooler temps we're now having. All are loaded with buds -- much more than at any time this summer. I just hope I get to see them before Jack Frost rips through here.
Good grief! no wonder you didn't want more cuttings for the yellow ice plant. Thanks, again. Your brug is lovely...
Donna...who are your pretty yellow seedlings parents? I love the color! Margie
Actually there are two that you see in the picture. The ivory white one is Insignius Pink x Isabello,, (I was hoping for pink). The yellow is a cutting from Cats meow, David, this past late winter Amarillo x Baja, i don't know what colors those two are.
I have some of my larger cuttings in a jar of water that also has cuttings from a willow. Which supposedly will make the brug cuttings root faster. Also for the first time I am making log cuttings, with 4 or 5 nodes. Also have some in tall 2' x 4' pots of perlite sand mix. So I guess i am trying several methods. Donna
Donna, does it matter what kind of willow??? I have corkscrew, which really roots quickly, think it would work??? I think I'll try it and see, thanks!!! I can root in dirt, but I have zero luck in water, maybe this will help...
It's really beautiful, it always amazes me at how many flowers these plants can produce at one time. The more I look at all the lovely brugs here the more I want them all, I don't sound too greedy do I ? lol.
You don't sound any different than most of us have sounded at one time or another. LOL! There are just too many beautiful ones now to have them all.
You are so right, and I can't even keep up with all the different names.
I think I remember reading about using willow to root them faster. I would love to hear if it helped! Great picture!
Donna, is it best not to use soil when rooting a log cutting or green wood cutting, or is the sand and perlite just another method you are trying??? With all this talk of rooting, I realize I'm missing good rooting weather, but I'm afraid I won't have enough room in the greenhouse...
Sherrylike, I wasn't thinking of perlite and sand as being a soil mix. It is what I use mostly when trying to root cuttings. When making log cuttings what is best to use for the rooting medium. I made 3 log cuttings, left a few small leaves, laid them down with the perlite covering the log part. Never tried to do this before, was just going on what I have read in DG. Thanks for your interest and help. Donna
Thanks so much Donna, you've inspired me, I'm going to try the log cuts, all different kinda ways, I have nothing to lose and the first frost isn't going to hurt anything here, it will be the first & last hard frost that will do the damage here...
Donna, you say that is a seedling? Did you keep it going in your greenhouse all winter? You have it in a pot right? Jeanette
Jnette, Thanks for check. Yes the brugs are seedlings and no they are not in pots, so when freeze comes they will be gone. I have brugs in pots in my small gh, and 5 more in pots in my bonsai storage room, where they will soon I think go dormant. I have taken cuttings of all that i thing interesting and that I will have room for over winter. Donna
I received seeds, naturally pollinated, from JT Sessions, which resulted in my first, home grown, seedling, which we call Little Miss Nobody. I have 40 something brugs and this one is the most hardy, all round plant I have. Any holes you see in her leaves, were NOT caused by bugs, but by falling limbs, sticks, acorns, rain, high wind and hail, all this week. Most of my other brugs dropped buds and insects attacked the plants, but not this one and she doesn't wilt when it's hot, she was grown in full sun, in a tomato box, with three other seedlings, her only fert being what was left over in the box, she has big, fat buds, lovely blossoms that smell like heaven. The limb that fell on her skinned her trunk, and shreaded some of her leaves, and she has a few hail holes, but my other brugs did not hold up nearly as well. My only regret is that I started her so late, that it's too late, I guess, to put her in the ground, but I really would like to take a cutting and put her in the ground, and if I get up enough courage, I might do it. BTW, she looks snow white but is really a very pale yellow. I cannot believe that I grew her, I'm very excited...
I'm sending this 2nd photo so you can see her with some color, slightly showing her pale yellow. I wonder if you can tell by her leaves, buds and blossom who her parents might be? The leaves the limbs broke and knocked off were very large.
I would like to know what the reason might be that it seems that all my brugs flush with staggered blooms, in this plant, the first three will bloom together, then there are 4 or 5 med buds, and 6 or 7 tiny buds. I like staggered blooming because, of course, I love always having blossoms. But, I wonder if it is something I'm doing or not doing. Any ideas?? There are so many of you that have huge, complete flushes and I've never had that. TIA!!!
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Very nice sherry...I am still waiting for buds and blooms on my seedlings. I will over-winter them in my little GH, but don't expect to see any until next year! When did you start your seeds? and did you do it in rockwool?
Margie
Sherrylike, very pretty brug, I like the starlike effect of your second picture. I have not been growing brugs long enought to make any attempt to identify form leaves. Donna
rutholive, I sincerely appreciate your compliment, thank you very much!!! Most brugs, that I'm familiar with have that particular star shape and you will see more, much like mine, only better!
Margie: Yes, I used rockwool. My first batch of seedlings, started late, were destroyed by my bleeping cats!! I replanted (late) and have 2 naturally pollinated, 4 BeccaLynn X CG and 1 PB X Rothkeisch, sp, I NEVER spell it correctly, but it is nice and tall and has not Yed, and of course I hope it doesn't, I'd LOVE yet another tree.
I've had my best results with my seedlings I put in my tomato boxes. Previously, the tomato boxes grew 4 broken limbs of 'unknown' brugs. On a whim, I removed the 4 unknown brugs, because they rooted so quickly, planted them, they flushed quickly and have had blooms all summer. Then, I planted 4 tiny seedlings in the tomato box: 1 BeccaLynn/CG, 2 naturally polinated, and, the 1 PB x Rothkeisch.
The photo I've attached, includes, the one, tall, stout, single BeccaLynn/CG that I planted in the tomato box and her three full sisters, the tiny ones, in regular 'seedling' plastic pots. I'm not sure how long ago, less than a month, I potted all four and their photo is attached. Big Sister, protected her three baby sisters from the recent wind, rain, hail storm, but Big Sister was damaged by falling limbs and lost lots of leaves.
I found the difference in the size of the brugs amazing, the ones grown in the boxes are big, healthy, bug resistance. I plan to plant more seedlings in the tomato boxes and see what happens...
What are tomato boxes??