Hi All!!
This is my first time cutting back brugs....I am very nervous doing this.... I sanitized my clippers in boiling water, and have cut the leaves off....This is my no name pink I bought locally this spring....So far I have just taken all the leaves off....now for the hard part.....to do the cuttings....Yikes! ......Oh, another thing, I just noticed this on the trunk.....Is it anything bad?
Thanks for looking!!
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Shoot, how do you delete the pic? Sorry for the repeat of the same one......:-(
This message was edited Oct 17, 2005 12:14 PM
Okay, this is what I was talking about on the trunk.....
Thanks!!!
WOW you really did strip it. LOL. I usually leave the growth tips on. But they leaf out again anyway.
The stems look OK to me. I usually cut them so I have a node on the bottom to root fast. I like to leave at least 3 nodes on each cutting. Though I have had 1 inch cuttings root. You will do fine!!!! Good luck!!
I was posting before you posted that close up. Check your nodes for any black. That is a dead giveaway. Yours almost looks like it got scraped. I would watch it and see if it spreads. SB usually is dried and indented in the center and has a blackened ring around it. But I do not know how it looks as it just starts.
I wasn't supposed to do the top??? LOL.....Sheesh.....I thought that would be okay....LOL....so you don't think that thing on the trunk is anything?
Thanks...:-)
LOL.....We are walking on each others toes.....LOL
Okay, I sure will!!
Thanks again from this really, really newbie!!!
wow, that's what a naked brug looks like. i see now clearly the green and wood like parts.
best of luck.
I just did my Frosty Pink.....Is this better? LOL
In case you were wondering, these were in the ground in the smaller pots. But when we dug them up, they had to be put in these bigger pots so they wouldn't tip over....
And this is at the bottom......Do I just wack it off, or is it rootable (is that a word? LOL)
Thanks!!
Thanks, Kell & Moonglow!!
Okay, this is the last....(I only have 3...hehe).....This is a cross of Isabella X Butterfly I got from a friend......I also left the top after you guys made fun of my naked one......LOL....LOL...(heck, I'm very much a newbie.....LOL....as you can see....LOL)Plus, I don't have the heart to cut that pretty flower and buds off just yet.... I have done nothing else to any of them. I want to show DH when he gets home before I really do some cutting....If you have suggestions, please post them.....I need all the help I can get! LOL
Thanks!!:-)
Wish me luck.....going out to cut one now.....LOL
LucyGoose--I plant mine in the soil as they can overwinter here in the ground, however they must be cut to just above the ground and mulched heavily. I can tell you, you do not have to be at all careful how much you cut back. It will come back two or three times bigger each time you cut it back!! I have had my Dr Suess for 2 years now--I got it as a small cutting-less than 1 foot tall. The first year is grew a single 5-6' stalk full of blossoms and several flushes, this year the very same plant cut back to the ground last Fall came back with no less than FIVE 6-8' stalks and has been going through flush after flush since June I think it was. It right this minute still has HUNDREDS of buds and many blooms!! So never fear!! So long as you keep it warm enough over winter it will reward you each each with ever larger flushes!! Bonnie
I DID IT, I DID IT.....LOL.....One down, the other 2 tomorrow after work, and I am working till late tonight, then back early in the morning...
Thanks! Have a great day!! :-)
Here are the cuttings I got....I left a couple big ones cause I will be using them for shade that I lost in my hosta bed....
great job!!! You did just fine :)
Thank-You!
GREAT job. Look at all of those. Funny how they multiply!!
Kathleen, You did a great job!
Thanks so much sharing your prune job!! I will now be able to go out and prune mine with no guilt after seeing yours!!! LOL
I keep holding off doing so because our weather conts. being warm and they are bloomin like crazy. I know I will have to do it soon though.
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Chop Chop!!!!
