Is there a time of year that is best for removing cuttings from your Brug?
Thank you in advance for any opininons or advice on when is better.
best time of year for cuttings?
I'm going to take my cuttings as soon as I get this big boot off my foot. That should be the 14th. Sometimes I take cuttings sooner. In warm weather, they root easier for me.
brugie hope its better and healed... take care... blessings.. Twyla
thank you
and I hope you get all better, completely and quickly
I have blooms and buds, so I guess I should wait until after they fade.
I know I don't want to take a cutting with a bud on it.
Brugie, my rooting success is the opposite from yours, mine root better when it's cool, spring, or cold, fall, winter. But I can root in the ground when it's warm. Good Luck on the big boot, I think I'm going to bronze mine and use it for a flower pot...
*LOL* Sherry, sounds like something Brugie should do with her's
Brugie I hope you get healed up and in good shape to start working with all your Brugs.
Thanks, Doris!! I need laughs, Katrina has destroyed many places that I love, as well as the homes of many of my friends and family...
Best to take cuttings before your 1st frost date (Mine in upstate SC is between Oct 8-15) as frost can kill the Brug to the roots. Have to either cut to right above the ground and protect well for Winter or dig up, pot up and take inside for Winter (if you are North up will HAVE to take it in as the ground freezes so hard that I don't think you can protect it enough to leave it in the ground.). Cuttings root easily in water in a warm room--especially nice if you have a bubbler system, but not entirely necessary. I rooted all my cuttings last year without bubbler!!
Bonnie
You are right Bonnie, they are easy to root in water, but my problem is that I'm not good at changing the water, so the most sure way for me is via bubbler. BTW, I winter mine outside and I leave 12 -18 inches, but after they are cut to that height, I mulch again and get as close to the top as I can. I've always had a few that would break off to the ground, OTOH, I've always had a few that grow back on some of the woody area a few inches,or so, above ground (after I've pulled back the mulch after Easter). I'm in southeast Arky, zone 8a, and I took my cuttings on Dec 15/04, the night of our first hard freeze. We had already had frost and it didn't hurt them and rather conditioned them to the GH which was always on the chilly side, as well as the bubbler. This year, we will probably have a hard freeze in Nov, or maybe before, seems to change from year to year...