Hope you can see the tiny greenies on my Culebra, started in rockwool. PLEASE cross your digits for me, I know Culebra is difficult and, you cannot imagine my surprise when I returned home today to find this. I know Culebra is not easy, lol!!!
Culebra: Kinda cute!
I'll cross my fingers, toes and eyes for you.
Hey, hot nail color girl!
Mary
Tanks, Mary!!! Orange Punch, my signature, lol!! Because I'm not into threads, I'm attaching a photo of True Auborea White. Goodness, my TAW is pink. She is a real beauty and six points but far from white. She is, however, self pollenating. Do any of you know what I have?? I mean, is TAW sometimes pink??
Dunno about TAW....but I LOVE the fingernail polish!!!!! WOW!
I wish this gardeners nails were looking as good as yours LOl...even with plants in the cellar I always still find ways to get my hands dirty doing this and doing that :-)...actually my nails used to look like that BUT it's been awhile...maybe for christmas again ?
BTW I LOVE your brug and nailcolor :-)
Sherry you are HOT!! LOL.
Your culebra are taking. You lucky duck. What kind of rockwool there? I tried rooting in RW last year but I forget what happened. I am SO INTERESTED in how you do!!
LOL. No way True Arborea but it sure is pretty. Can you take a pick with it hanging naturally so I can check it all out?
True Arborea
Sherry, good job with Culebra. Could the color on AW be because of the cooler temps? I had a seedling that bloomed white in the summer, and it was peachy in the gh with cooler temps. Beautiful bloom, did you grow it from seed? And those nails make me so jealous.
Even I can tell your Culebra are looking good, Sherry! Good luck with them. I'll keep watching for photos. Your TAW is incredible!!
wonderful you got it going and the taw is beautiful, great picture.... Twyla
Hey, you guys are all very nice, thank you so very much!! First, I tried Culebra in the bubbler and she was not a happy camper. I was told to use sand and or perlite and I just did not want to take a chance because I've never used either before - so I dipped her in growing hormone and put her in rockwool wedges in Sam's 22 oz bottles, so, if she rooted that I'd be able to see what's going on. I add superthrive/H202 in the bottom and after the bottom soaks up, I tip it toward the top/rooting end, but not all the way up, hoping the new roots will grow deep. So far, WAY better than I ever expected.
Thanks too re TAW, I'm so excited that she's bloomed. Kyle identified the foliage as TAW on his thread about his blooming, earlier this year, I've forgotten which thread. (I was in error here, he identified Aurea White x New Rothkirch Pink, I think) – I thought I received the seed from Poppysue and I have two plants, both with buds, both self pollinating, but since it's not the right plant, I suppose that will not happen with mine. Kell, the attached bloom is 5 days old and in the GH. If she isn't TAW, I wonder who she is??
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love your nails! i just want to hide mine when i saw yours! but thanks for the reminder to be girly-girl again.
crossing my fingers for your culebra. and your TAP (true aborea pink) is gorgeous =))).
i'd love to see kyle's thread and look at photos of TAW leaves. kell gave me 5 of those this past summer then i had the squirrel fiasco. there is ONE plant standing where my TAWs are supposed to be and i'm not even sure if that's still TAW i got.
now all my seed projects are indoors.
I'm beginning to think that the seedling above is: Aurea White x New Rothkirch Pink
I'm going to dig down in the dirt tomorrow and see if the tag might be there. I do know that i was most surprised that "TAW" made it through this tough summer without blinking an eye, and the little I did know was that she doesn't like heat - course, I figured that's why she's so late blooming but there is no getting around the fact that she is, like Moonglow said TAP, not TAW, lol!!!
Sherry,
I hope you find the name of your beautiful Brug. I'm fairly new to Brugs, but from what I've read in both Monika's book and in Preissels' book, true B. arborea is only white to creamy white. It blooms continuously rather than in flushes. It has the shortest corolla of any Brug (4-1/2" - 6-1/2") and has white hairs on its style. All other species have smooth styles. The calx has one split with the side opposite the split reaching down almost the length of the corolla (One of the identifying marks). The leaves and flower stalks are very fuzzy. According to Preissel, the leaves can be partly or wholly dentated as well as smooth.
Love your nails. I wish I could keep them looking half as nice as yours.
Crossin' my fingers for you too, Sherrylike....so far so good!!
(sigh....)
Culebra is one that I was 'kinda' interested in....why is it always those reported to be 'difficult' that I seem to be attracted to? (lol!....used to be like that with men, too!)
OK...can any of you give us the 'drawbacks' of Culebra?
Maybe I'll change my mind on getting one!
Drawbacks, lol!!! Slow growing, attracts mites, looks awful lots of the time, drops her leaves and pouts if the world doesn't stop for her, doesn't want too much water or too little or too much sun or too little, she is a drama queen, can you say very high maintenance??!!
Sherry, What kind of mites does it attract? I have a very small Culebra plant and I just discovered this afternoon that I have broadmites on a few cuttings at the opposite side of the greenhouse. I have to go in tomorrow and spray with Avid. I hope my Culebra doesn't get them.
betty, I must admit that my report of mites is hearsay, mine has not had them. She did have something that made her look likes she had failure to thrive and I treated her for mites and all her leaves fell off. I don't remember what I treated her with but I think it was something with a fungicide & for mites. When her leaves grew back, she was fine, but she is slow growing. I've had her over a year and she was one stalked and about 6 inches. I put her in the ground toward the end of the summer and she definitely liked it better and was about 22 inches when I cut her down, she also had three stalks, the 2nd about 12 inches and the third about 6 inches...good luck!! I love her but I want her to grow or at least act happy, and except for a short time last spring, all she does is sit...but she doesn't die...I dunno...
Sherry, just curious, why did you cut it down? At 22 inches and with 3 stalks I would have dug it and potted it for the winter. Mine are not doing a thing. They just sit there at about 8 inches. One is over a year old and the other I got this past summer.
Did you see the lovely botaincal print in one of the old threads that popped back up?
Yes, Linda, i loved the thread and the print!! I posted one of the writers but have not received a reply. I didn't put my Culebra in the ground until late summer and it did better. Otherwise, it did little but drop her leaves when I attempted to treat her for failure to thrive, I really thought she might have had mites. And she grew some following that. Last year, I kept her potted for the winter and by error, she was left outside and I didn't know it until spring. Also, she was not watered all winter. So, i made up my mind that I was going to try leaving her in the ground for the winter and that I would try to root her. So, after a freeze or two, I cut her down and put her in the bubbler, which she hated, then into rockwool, with root stimulator, and she rooted, oh, happy day!! If the one in the ground doesn't make it, I will be in the market for a new one and will try to locate one that was larger than mine was to begin with. There isn't a person that comes here and after seeing all the plants, that doesn't ask 'oh, I like that one - what kind is she?' So, it's my goal to find out 'who' she is myself and what makes her tick, so far, I don't know much more than I did when I started, lol!!! Any and all suggestions will be sincerely appreciated!!
Your pink is very pretty Sherry and I bet much darker come the summer. But it is not an Arborea. LOL.
I have a little Culebra and it is so strong. I watered it all summer way too much for I woud never notice it where it was till after I turned the hose on it, and it kept on living. I can't wait for it to flower. It is one I wanted for a long time.
Kell, I hope yours flowers. So far mine just sits there and does nothing. It hasn't grown any at all.
Culebra is the hardest brug to grow that I have run across. It just wants to grow and then shed it's leaves and finally it buds up and they all fall off. It has taken my three years to come to that conclusion. Mainly because I didn't have any buds until this year. I have it inside and I am going to give it one more year to produce and then I will be giving that thing away if it doesn't do better.
Sherry, beautiful pink brug! Now Jim, I'll keep my fingers crossed for yah but if it don't work for yah......pass over the fence!
:) Donna
Donna, wonder if it needs some cold air. lol It's yours if it doesn't bloom next year if you want to try your luck. I got it to y twice this past year and then all the buds fell off. I think next year I am going to put it in one place and leave it there. Donna I moved that thing so many times it had more miles than you did coming to the roundup.
Maybe that's the problem, Jim. Some plants don't like to be moved.
:) Donna
I'm staying with Culebra until the midnight hour, there is just something about her that intrigues me, lol, it's certainly not growth, buds, blooms, good health, bug resistance, whew, but I'm with her for the long haul...
Donna I one year I didn't move it. Then Ludger said on one of the forum to put it in a smaller pot. That didn't work. Then some one later said to put it in a larger pot. That didn't work. Less water, more shade, you name it and I have done it.
Sherry I am like you I want that thing to bloom so bad. I think maybe I give it to much attiention.
Hahahaha, Georgia, I'm taking it a step at a time, right now, I just want it to thrive, darn thing always seems to be at a crossroad between life and there after, lol. If it would stay or go, it always seems to be just enough alive to give me hope, and not close enough to the here after to make me give up, ya know, whew, I'd say unlikely drama queen...
Have you thought about playing some music for her?
Sidney
lol!
OK...that does it for me...I'll forget about Culebra for now, and see how you folks do with yours before I 'remember' I wanted her!
Keep us posted, please and thanks!
you think culebra would like "michael buble?"
Nan, this past summer I had WAYYY too many to take care of, so as they proved themselves to be too finicky, sickly, bug magnet, prima donna etc they would find themselves on the curb. To be 'worthy' of a space in the gh, they had to be a good bloomer, nice foliage, bug resistant or have some special quality.
That is, all except Culebra. The leaves are so different on this one, and the blooms (if I ever get any) are so different. I try not to 'love' it to death, but I would really like for this one to do something.
Lordy, she drops her leafs often, and for no reason - I hope she doesn't hear 'Tequila Makes Her Clothes Fall Off'!! Prima donna that she is, she might think it's about her - hey, maybe it is, lol!
sherry, new photos? love to watch your prima donna of a brug challenge.
Thanks, Moonglow, she has grown, and I hope to make photos this weekend!! As it is, I'm nursing my 11 year grand girl, with a virus, bless her precious heart, she is, we hope, the last to have it, whew!!
Here is Culebra, 12/18/05, these three are rooted, but I continue to hold my breath!!
I have 5 more TEENY, TINY stubbies taken off the 'big' one with these three, and they are well behind these, but there is green, seen only with strong magnifying glass - please cross your digits for her, she wants to play, I just hope I can keep her interested, lol!! Note, the long side 'limbs' on the bigger cutting, they have grown almost an inch, I'm torn between rooting them and leaving them alone to just grow. Any/all suggestions sincerely appreciated.
BTW, ya think I should paint the exposed tops of the two rootings in front??
You reminded me my little Culebra is out in the storm. I need to run out and move it to the hoophouse. Yours are looking so good. Those are huge blocks of rockwool, Sherry. Have you rooted a lot of cuttings in rockwool?
If they have been cut for a while they have self sealed. I do not think putting anything on now would do much except maybe seal in pathogens.
Why don't you try one one way and the other the other way and see which does best for you? And then you have still have a 3rd!
