L'amour

I'm looking for L'amour...i dont mind buying it, but find it hard to pay $26.95 for it. Does anybody know of a source that has it that isnt charging so much?
Thanks
JEn

so, is this the going rate for l'amour?

Jen, that's cheap according to what some of us paid for L'Amour.

oh

A lot of people paid even more than that last year. Looks like a pretty good price to me. She doesn't always root easily.

k, bad on my part then.

When I got mine I paid $74 for it. And it has since died!

Ouch! That hurts!!!

ditto what Gretchen said

David, I think mine is dead also along with two of the other new ones. Our habit can get costly, can't it? LOL

Hmmmmmm I just lost mine to and it was a big plant until I cut it back before the hurricane. I wonder what is going on. All the cuttings I shipped to a friend from it died to and she even bought more cuttings from a dealer and they have died too. All recently. I also had a friend send me 2 cuttings from hers and they both died. One very quickly and the other had started growing leaves and then just up and died. I really don't understand what is going on!!!!

Is anybody having any luck keeping it alive?

Beginning to scare me. I have one in the house and one in the garage. The one in the house has some die back on it and the one in the garage has big pods on it right now. Time will tell.

It is very touchy about water I have found, until it gets big. I have had mine for 3 years and no trouble. I had trouble with the cuttings until this year. If you overwater them, they die quickly. Once they get some size, they seem to be fine. In winter I hardly water at all! I also keep it more rootbound than others, that also helps it from rotting.

I f I get die back, I cut down to the good wood and then put some rooting hormone on it. It has fungicide in it and seems to stop the die back.

This message was edited Dec 12, 2004 7:20 PM

Mine is doing good so far (saying that quietly)!!

Glad someone is sending you cuttings!

This message was edited Dec 14, 2004 1:54 AM

woohoo, thanks!!!

Mine is doing good so far, too.

K, another question, and please, i am not trying to start anything.
But why is 26.95 acceptable for a plant? or $74.00? or even more than that?
I understand that alot of time goes in to hybridizing, growing, evaluating and what not, but what makes them worth so much or better yet, why do we pay so much for them?
I know that the older they get, the cheaper they get, but is the object to price them so high that the common folk cant afford them and therefore they are only available to the serious hybridizers?
I went looking around for a few that i'm looking for and was floored by the cost.....and then to see ones that i've given away listed for 14.95 and higher...
anyway, it just baffles me.

Jen, usually the ones with the REALLY big prices were bought on an auction. All it takes for a price to skyrocket is 2 people who will not give up!

I think it is called capitalism Ms Jen.

And it might surprise you but I have found most of the special brugs are given freely ASAP among the "serious" hybridizers. They do not have to spend a penny or even trade for them. They are more interested in getting the genes out there to people with proven skills to cross for even more special brugs. They also share the seeds of the best crosses freely with those who have a proven record of being keenly interested in hybridizing, of growing seeds well, of growing them to fruition, and of following good etiquette.

As I'm new to Brugs, is there a pricing guide anywhere to give a general idea of the value of named cuttings?

I have had great luck with my L'Amour and it has not given me a minutes problem. I planted it in the ground over the summer and the blooms were a much deeper pink and much larger than the first year!
Mel

My take is this:

It's a legit question, but the answer is simple. Brugs are like new brands of TV's or anything else. High priced when they first come out, but as the demand for them lessens, so does the price. L'Amour becomes easier to get so the price starts to decline. I have nothing against someone who wants to make a little money since brugs aren't exactly cheap to grow and maintain. Things I don't like to see when people sell are enhanced photos or stolen photos. We might as well be realistic. It isn't going to change. Just be selective when you buy, if you have to buy. Even buying at established businesses can be disappointing for one reason or another, so be prepared to be let down sometimes. Your best bet is to always ask on the brug forum if someone has one to share. If that doesn't work, then start looking or wait. Sometimes a short time waiting gives one time to think about it and you will find that it wasn't all that important to have that expensive brug right then anyway. LOL!

Budgielover, I don't know of any pricing guide. I think it is just best to check out a few of the grower/sellers or nurseries online and take a peek at what they are charging. I believe most of them are charging about the same amount within a few dollars.

Thanks.
I'm just looking for a guideline as I have silver and gold jewelry left over from a business that I offering as trades and don't want to insult anyone.
Jan...

Brugie,
Thanks for explaining that to me. I sometimes think i think too much about this .
Jen

I also have Rothkirch which is another very expensive and hard to find variety. It grew to be around 6ft tall this past spring and had flowewrs all spring and summer long.
I overwintered it in the gh last winter and it had active growth all winter. I brought it into the gh in October and have been having problems with it ever since. It started to die from the tips of the Y downwards. I cut the dead parts away about every other day or so and dusted or either sprayed with a rooting hormone or fungicide. I have now cut so much that it is to the part of the plant that forms the Y. I finally quit cutting it because nothing I was doing seemed to be working .
The crud whatever it is has now gone below the Y and there is mush between the skin and the woody part of the trunk but the wood is not soft. The plant has put out new growth at all leaf nodes from soil level up to about 5 ft now and the rot seems like it might have stopped at the first set of nodes below the Y but I don't know for sure.

Oh David, I hope it straightens up soon. If mine grows well, I'll try to take a cutting or two for a backup and if you need one, I'll make a stab at getting them to root for you too. Hopefully you won't need one.