I think my very first brug is 3 years old and was seed grown, not a cutting. I have had to cut it back several times to get it in the house for the winter. I cut it back as directed, so many nodes above the second Y. In the past it has sent out new branches and continued to bloom. This year it has taken forever to send out just a few leaves and those are not growing very fast. I did root what I cut off. Is it time to retire the original one?
the experts will jump in so I'm wondering.... has it been in the same pot all this time? Might be time for some root pruning and fresh mix?
Thanks! It has been repotted a few times. I sliced off some of the exterior roots and went up in pot size. It is in a huge pot now, like for trees. :( I have not repotted it this year. It didn't look like it was going to do anything.
Hey Chele, have you tried setting it next to the garbage cans? ROTFL, do you remember? HAR
Pudgy LOL that always works!!!
LOL Pudgy! I did not think to try that!
A few of my others have buds and a bunch of them are growing into shrubs. A handful of others that I had thought might have died are coming up from the roots. This one is a nice tall straight tree about 8' tall. I'd hate to chuck it so I guess I will just move it out of the way and see if it takes off.
It does! LOL
When I first acquired mine, and had such a time with the spider mites, I kept saying I was gonna pitch them & Chele kept talking me out of it. I did set them by the trash can & ignore them, and they straightened right up. As if they knew I meant business. LOL And since then, they have not messed with me and have given me blooms in gratitude. I owe it all to Chele. hehe
LOL I am glad I am good for something. :)
Badseed -
Before I actually threw her away because I didn't want to have a larger pot I would consider doing the below. I've never raised Brugs before but have considerable experience with other plants.
1) Do you have room to put some good potting soil in the top of the pot. If so that could rejuvenate the plant for awhile.
2) Use a long skinny screwdriver to punch some holes in the root mass so the nutrients can get into the root system then fertilize well. If a little poking proves to be beneficial, do some more. lol lol
Good Luck with whatever you decide to do.
Judy
Three years is kind of young.... don't ya think? I would keep it out of the way and see what happens..... :)
Chele, the the trunk all looks healthy? What I do in the spring on my old trees, is I pull them put of the pot, and I cut off about 1/2 the root ball, sides and bottom. Then I cut the top by as much. I keep a good Y structure though. I then repot in same pot but new soil. I let them rest for a few weeks then I start to foliar feed. They seem to love it.
Yours already looks like it is cut back on top. No way it needs such a big rootball now for it doesn't have a canopy to support.
Okay, I went outside, cut the rootball WAY back all the way around and on the bottom. I potted it back up in the same BIG pot with new promix and a nice serving of Osmocote and threw in some water crystals for good measure. How long till it blooms again? LOL
If it dies Chele, I never said a word to you! LOL
LOL I love you too Kell!
I don't even know you.
Didn't think so.
So make sure it is in shade as it recoivers from the butcher job you did on her Chele. You are so mean!! So you never showed the entire canopy. I gather it is very small?
LOL When I cut it back, I only left 2 sets of Y's. You saw half of it.
I think it depends on how sentimental you are. I have two on their 2nd year and they aren't looking so great. But I grew them from seed, and they were my first. So we decided to go ahead and let them stick around.
Love that screwdriver idea - going out to punch some holes right now! Let's see if this boost's them a little. (One of them has few leaves and they are light green instead of dark).
Did I miss somewhere in this thread what they are??? If it's important to you I hope it makes it...If it's an everyday brug get yourself a fresh new pretty one and start again. There are so many new one around. Good luck what ever you chose to do.
Sounds perfect Chele. In 2 weeks you will have new growth unless your tree does not like you then it will take 1 month.
It's *just* a huge flowered, super perfumed white blooming brug. It is the first brug I received and it came from Brugie and is one of Kyle's. It gave me my first brug blooms. Yep, it's special. In my zone, they have to be babied, dragged in for the winter, fed and watered a ton in the summer, just to be dragged back in. They aren't easy to come by around here either. LOL I do have my choice of pink, white or yellow at the most expensive nursery in town. GAG! I do have others. I just like this one. :)
I know exactly what you are saying there! DH keeps pointing out to me that the one I was ready to toss keeps "showing signs of good green growth" - he's more hopeful than I am! But he helped, also, with all that hauling around last year after my back gave out. You just don't work that hard to throw something away and the first one IS special.
Hey Badseed, how is everything doing, I didn't know you liked Brugs, I had three nice ones at the round up as a matter of fact Ric got one of my Halo Peach, I brought 2 home because someone couldn't show up that day, so I sent her one in the mail. Which Nursery around here carries brugs I sure can't find them.
JoAnn
Hey JoAnn! You do not want them at the nursery that carries them. They are sickly looking and $20 for a tiny stick! I am going to root some of my named ones then make you come to my house! LMBO!! I asked the owner how sales were and she said not good. Then she proceeded to show me a pic of her 'prized' tree. It had about 20 blooms and she had no idea what it was. Geeze! I am happy to share. Besides, I would love to see you again. :)
$20 for a tiny stick? lol! No kidding! It is amazing how many out there selling them from one tree don't even know what they are. I lucked out though and got what we think is a Maya for $1.99 because he REALLY didn't know what he had. It was rooted and already going pretty good - just needed a bigger pot. I asked this guy if he knew what it was (all it said was "variegated brugmansia") and he said nervously "no, but the flowers are peach colored and they smell really good!"
I think some people from Daves would make better nursery owners than what's out there - at least they do their research.
Badseed I still have my Kyles super perfumed white blooming brug he started my out with. Keep cutting a chunk off it every fall for next years plant and then give it away because it keeps coming back from the roots. Some one from the Texoma round up got it this year.
