other than genetics and age....what factors determine brug trunk size. I have an Ollie and another brug that are the same height...both flower well and are healthy (when we get some rain) but I do notice that some of my brugs have much slimmer trunks than others. Butterfly for example is a "tree". Whiskers is just as large but the trunk is not as big around ?
reasons for brug trunk size....
Don't have an answer, but I've noticed this, too, and am curious.
I'm curious as well. I have a CG that is only about 4 ft tall, but has a trunk close to 2" wide.
I bet for the same reasons I am fat and and you are not. LOL
Genetics, food, and sitting in front of this computer all day!
Ha....do you find will your brugs that some "cultivars" tend to be bigger around "stem wise" than others ?
My in ground brugs have significantly larger stems but then they are holding up much larger brugs. They also have "free range" roots. My "monster" and son are working on true trunks. But as kell said, more food-bigger bottom lol.
so you feel that it is a size "of plant" issue.
in other words....if I sent 2 people a small diameter cutting of semi hard - hard wood - whether it developed into a "fat" stem or not would depend on growing conditions?
I am certainly no expert, but nature and nuture would both make a difference. My oldest potted (5 gal/20 gal) brugs are only 2 yrs old as are the in grounds. Certainly optimum growing conditions would make for a more robust plant no matter what its parentage.
Just my opinion, but I think the plants in the ground are bound to be bigger trunks. Bigger everything. Given the same food and other care. Jeanette
Mine in ground are much stronger and have larger, straighter trunks than those in pots. Next year, I hope to have only as many as can be in the ground (this will mean reduction in current collection).
I agree, Jeanette. Mine in the ground are really trees, big fat trunks and they grow upwards of 18 feet. Just huge. Big fat trunks.
Here is the trunk of my old sang. Gone but not forgotten!
I don't know.....I have a couple of older ones in pots with trunks much like that, Kell
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And, I have a NOID yellow/gold that I had planted in-ground a few years back (potted now) that has *multiple* trunks, but not as large as the two that I mentioned above.
emilyrasmus mentions that her CG is potted, 4' tall, and has a 2" truck (I assume you mean across, emilyrasmus?)....I have one about 3' tall, and the trunk is downright *skinny*!!
Hmm.....
Pretty cool to have such huge ones in pots, Nan. I would love to see pictures. I just can't imagine one like this in a pot. It was several feet wide what you see in that picture. Which brugs are they? Too cool.
You must have to water so much though to keep it going. This sang was probably 12 feet across and 12 feet tall. It was massive. One of the reasons I had to get rid of it, it took up too much room in my garden! I was forever cutting it down.
OMG....well, kell, mine aren't *that* big...they have large trunks (say about 6-8" across) but they have to be cut back every year to be brought inside, so they don't/can't grow to 12x12 each year!! lol!
Maybe I spoke too soon....what size would you say that trunk pictured is, across?
They suffered some neglect the past few years after my son's illness, and I haven't had the time/energy to root prune and repot as I'd done in previous years...so they stay in their 14" pots....pretty tight!
One is a NOID pink that a friend grew from seed about 6-8 years ago (?) , and one is V. Peach.
Yes, my large CG trunk is 2" across. It's rootbound in a 10 gallon container, but I'll repot next spring. This is my largest brug and it's about 4' tall and about 5' across. Very bushy brug and forever blooming its heart out.