I have 12 trays that look like this now. And many more in 6 packs. They are now covering the bulbs. It is still raining here (for the next 4 days) and cool so I hate to start moving them out to my muddy backyard!!!
HELPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP!!
Geez Louise - I can't even get my rooted cuttings to grow and look at yours. What in the world is your secret??? Please share it with me....
Awww......feeling so sorry for you. Have to talk to the "man upstairs" and see if he won't stop that rain, then bring it back in the summer, when you need it.
Lottsa luck.
LOL Kell........ :)
I hope it will stop raining soon.....
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Oh NO Gloria!! LOL. It so great not having rain or storms from May to November! LOL. Well maybe a morning or 2 of rain would be OK!
Good to see you posting Eva. How are your brugs doing?
Sarv, I really think it is my VF 11. LOL.....I think that is what it is called. I just finished my bottle so I tossed it and can't look. I spray it on, baby up, when ever I think of doing it.
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Kell, do you mean that your next step is to put them in the ground?? I guess I'd just move them outta the rain until it stops long enough to plant them. I guess maybe I didn't understand your question...
I do not have a question Sherry, it was more of a rhetorical statement. I am in big trouble brug wise. I can not even see my lights on my seedling racks anymore. If I do not move them, the tops will start getting mushed and deformed.
Yes, I should put them right into the ground or I will have to move them to 1 gallon cans soon.
gee kell and here I am fighting to keep mine growing till I can get them outside, you must have the magic touch.
My son took me shopping today to look for Afalfa pellets, after three Co-Ops and four farm stores we only found the cubes, said they were not selling the pellets any more, darn. I think the cubes would be harder to work with
I sorta know how you feel Kell. I broke my ankle several weeks ago and I'll be in a cast for another 8 weeks for certain. Kinda slows down everything - I hope the brugs, especially the seedlings, will be able to wait a little longer and I cannot figure out anything to do but, as you said, put them in 1 gal pots, there is no way I can dig holes and I have other work that needs to be done before i did holes anyway. Oh, well, lets hope yours and mine will be able to forgive us, huh??!!
Doris, maybe the cubes would be fine. As soon as the pellets hit the water they soften and begin to dissolve. Maybe the cubes would also! I use alfalfa mostly on my roses. They really work the best on roses from what I have read and from my own experience. I let them soak for 2 days and they are mush after.
Sherry, you poor girl. How did you do that? Thank goodness you will not have a cast on in the heat of the summer. Time to get one of your family members out to help dig holes!! I bet you can get them to, with your poor ankle.
Thanks, Kell! A totally avoidable accident - a child left a trash bag on a step at my daughter's and I had no idea it was there, stepped on it and it was like stepping on a banana peel. But, I'm doing great, have a wonderful scooter to zip around and I have super docs, best ankle man in this area, does LOTS of sports injuries. Whatever, I'm making the most of it and I'm trying to figure out ways to pot my seedlings from my stroller, I also have a nifty walker/chair/wheel chair, which should come in handy too, I haven't used it yet. I have plenty of grands to help me with the brugs - my problem is that I'm not sure where I'm going to put them and, I need to have some beds reworked before I do anything. But, if there is a way, I'll get it done. If any of you have had such injuries and know short cuts that might help me, I'd love to hear how you managed. As soon as the chance of a hard freeze lessens and I can get the outside water back on, I'll be on my way...
Kell, all this rain sucks big time. Sorry about that. I'm sure your seedlings will be all right if they wait a little longer to go outside. On the other hand, maybe the rain water would be good for them. Can you set them on an outside patio or sheltered area until the rain stops and things dry out a bit?
So sorry about your ankle, Sherry!
Kell I am having another proble, my Brugs were doing great, then I switched from using water that went through the water softner to a new hydrant I had put into the gararge that bypasses the softner, since then my Brugs are loosing leaves, and look droopy, I continue to check how much water they get, so they are not water logged.
Tanks, Clare! I'm grateful it wasn't any worse. When I think about our service men injured on battle fields, I consider myself a very lucky girl!!!
Doris,
Alfalfa 'cubes ' are made from compressed bales of hay that the moisture has been removed from and then sliced into cubes so it can be bagged.
It's a convenience food ...... lol
( We had to feed it during a drought one summer $$$$ and we had HUGE irrigated hay bales trucked in from the N.W. more $$$$ )
So the cubes will be very course as is chopped hay.
Pellets are a dry alfalfa finely ground and extruded into pellets.
Any place (feed mill) that mixes feed for farmer's livestock will have it it stock since it is a pure 'ingredient'' in mixed feed.
ask your local livestock farmer where they go.
Don't ask a pet food store.
Looks like you shoulda sent out more seed Kell then you wouldn't have that problem............LOL
No sympathy here...............LOLOL
8o)
Dee
Scooter we were at the three Co-Op (feed mills) they said they had no calls for the pellets so they stopped having it, only the cubes
I wish I had this problem.... but they look really great!
Yep... Feelin real sorry for ya, Kell! Want me to come down & take a few (dz) off your hands? :)
Bj
What are Brugsmansia's? The leaf looks familiar? Even tho our desert loves the rain, I'm ready to dry out and get to the garden!
Hehehe
*/;-)
Welcome to your next addiction
http://davesgarden.com/pf/finder/index.php?sname=Brugmansias&submit=Go
AND A BIG WELCOME to the Brug Forum.
You'll love it here .
Shirley
Yes, Welcome Welcome Madelyn. I think Scoot was laughing with a bit of the devil in it! RUN RUN RUN! LOL Few have the strength to walk away once they get a look at these beauties!
Oh, Madelyn, I send my condolences, unless you have all the time in the world and a big pocket book, lol - that's an overstatement but brugs are addictive!!
Gee Whiz Kell, Ya think mbbe I shudda gone easier on dear madelyn ? * snickers *
Yo Madelyn .......... You OK girl ?
We dont want ya to overdose , so mbbe ya oughta only look at one page a day , hmmmmm ?
*wicked grin*
Hugz
Scooterbug...and kell...where were you when I needed this warning!?
Don't let them scare you Madelyn...the expense is nothing like in daylilies! Now, the work is another story!
Welcome to your new addiction!
Margie
Oh Margie, I just received tons and tons of daylily seeds. I am SO EXCITED!!! I think I may be in deep trouble!! LOL
I planted alot of Daylily seeds last year, I should get my first blooms this year. I am excited to see how they turn out.
I know I'll probably get yelled at for this but I LOVE THE RAIN!!! I love sitting in the hot-tub with a good single malt, listening to the rain tap on the metal roof of the gazebo and looking out on my garden. Back in Scotland there is a place called Glencoe at the base of the Ben Nevis mountain and next to the Rannoch moors that gets, (are you ready for this?) a maximum of 168 inches of rainfall a year. Here in California, everyone is complaining about a wee 32 inches?? Pansies, the lot of them.-Bagpypr
bagpypr...no hot tub here & no malt...but I have to say, I love the rain too! I am not complaining even though in rainy CA !!! I'm with you!!!
Margie
Well I am complaining!! But get me a hot tub and I may reconsider! LOL
Yeah, a hot tub and a beer, and I'll forget all about the rain! LOL!
Real rain...
I spent almost 6 years in the Philippines. Thunderstorms start popping up in the afternoon like FL in Jul. Then one of the first days of Aug you get up and it's monochromatic gray, straight down rain with no wind and it stays like that for 2 weeks. Then it stop/starts for several months. The year I moved with family back to the states, I left in Sep and we were already over 200". Once I got used to it, I did enjoy it and miss just going outside under the downspout in a pair of shorts and a bar of soap. Simple is good!!
I hear the mangoes there are to die for! Lucky you to have experienced a different land.
Kell never once told me to run, she said look!look!look till I was so hooked that is all I do now is look and dream of when they will be MY pictures on this forum.
LOL Doris!! I liked you too much to let you escape from here!!
Thanks kell cause I live here now :)
lol, Doris!! I do too...
OK...Kell I don't feel sorry for you and your over abundance of seedlings...I wish It were me, I'm green...This has not been a good year for me with seedlings.I have very few started...cause......empty seeds ...effect...no seedlings...I have started some with the seeds I won from a contest here from Brugie her seeds were great, nothing showing yet but it has been only a short time...But I don't think I will get blooms this year with this late start. I have never seen so many empty seeds before this year... Kell don't take me seriouslly when I say I don't feel sorry for you...All in fun...But I am green. Keep the pic's comming need to see plants since my flats are empty. Hope you are feeling better and your mom as well. cinnabor
Kell I must have missed something--What is VF11?Your seedlings look so good!
SherryLike, I'm so sorry to hear about your ankle! I hope it heal quickly!
Bonnie
cinn. what's with the seeds, mine are the same, I think I planted twenty five, several different doners and only Brugie's are growing