OK.. I have a dark old style basement. It has a total of 5 little bitty windows. (reference the 1920's farmhouse I live in and you will be able to visualize it perfectly) Here are my questions
1) will my brugs overwinter in this basement and survive?
2) how would I take care of them if I overwinter them here?
3)next spring will they continue their growth from their pre-winter size?
4) can I also place cuttings in a bubbler and have them overwinter down there?
thanks
Just checking ONE last time - maybe
Morning!!
I have the same thing.....Older home with a basement that I will be overwintering my whopping 3 brugs....LOL...I will be cutting them down soon, and putting the cuttings in water....Can I ask why everyone seems to do the bubbler? Seems like too much work to me.....JMO....All you have to do is change the water here and there and pot them up when you see roots....As for the mother plants, I will just strip leaves or anything that grows over winter to keep them dormant.
Good Luck to you!! :-)
I have a 1900's old basement with damp limestone rock walls and itty bitty windows. It runs around 50 degrees in the winter except when it really gets windy, then maybe 45 degrees. Mine ( a bunch of seedling trees in pots) sat down there between late Oct. and April, dormant. I watered with a cup of H20 about once a month and one of them tried to grow pale leaves while the others looked really really dormant. In the spring, there was a little loss of some of the tips, which "died back" to new growth. A couple were put in the ground too early and a late frost really nailed them. However they sprang back just fine and bloomed mid-summer.
Hope this helps,
Eileen
Lucy,
I agree with you on the 'bubbler' craze. It's been like a buzz-word here for about a year now.
Why is is called bubbler instead of air stone on a $6 dollar aquarium air pump ..... which is all it is ?
I prefer doing the water changes also 'cause I get a chance to check them over .
I lost some good hybrids when I tried the 'air stone' last year .
................. because one rotted and the bacteria infected all the other cuttings in that container.
I keep my brug plants in dormancy the same way Eileen does.
Some are even kept in a large cool closet in dis 105 year old farmhouse ;-)
OK.. I am planning on digging as couple up.. I am concerned because the potting soil I have has fertilizer in it.. will this be a problem for them going dormant?
Laura I did two in my basement last year, two small windows, and I used the MG potting soil with no problem, just enough water once a month from Nov, to March they survived, then I brought them up and put in my spare bedroom.
great.. I got the moisture control potting soil also.. so they can survive me neglecting them! now I have to decide which two get to live upstairs
jazz , dunno about that moisture control soil ?
The idea is to only give them enough water every 3 or 4 weeks while in the dormant stage , ...... a cup of water will do ,...... just to keep the root ball from drying out.
any more moisture could cause root rot in the dormant brug as they have no way to use it.