I have two of these blooms on EP, very odd looking!
What the...?
Somethin' happened! LOL How weird is that?
upside down or is it inside out.. yes weird...
Different............
ROFL! This is the best mutation I've ever seen! Looks like it thought about having 14-15 points and then changed its mind. Really cool!
It's the pinapple upside down cake of the brug world!!! Too cool!! LOL
What a cool picture. I would love to know why things like this happen.
Totally weird mutant Brug!
Very strange. I'm with Brugie - would love to know what causes that.
maybe weather, bugs? I did spray Messanger 2 weeks ago and all the brugs had a huge surge in new growth and just exploded with buds that weren't there when I sprayed.
Here are the 4 sisters today, the two mutants are #1 and 3 from left to right.
Hi. I have one of these and have a couple of questions if you don't mind. Mine is in a pot and it did bloom last year. We had a stong wind and it broke the top 3 incehs off. It is not a very pretty plant. Should it be getting fuller? Mine just goes straight up. Is there something I need to do to make it bush out some? How often do you change pots? Fertilize and water also. Since it did bloom, I know I did something right but I don't believe it did as good as it could have. It certainly doesn't look like the pic above. I also have mine where it gets full sun all day long. Out by my pool. Is this too much sun?
Thanks
Patricia
That is so funny looking Sue! Is that pic outside? I love everything in the background. Can't you take more pics of all those beauties behind too? I'd sure love to see them.
Hi Brinda, all my brugs stay outside all year round. I have pots galor all over my patio right now, just waiting for some compost planting mix to be added to the beds so many can finally be planted. Plus I am just a plant nut collector, I shop with Kell sometimes, out and about and online, need I say more?! She's one of a few on DG that feeds my addictions.
I do add images all over the place, some in daylilies, some in perennials, begonias.
We had such a late start with spring because of almost 2 months a relentless rains. Once the coleus and other new things start filling in, I will take more shots.
Patricia, perhaps you can do a seperate post with your question for the brug experts here as your post may get lost in my odd bloom thread and I certainly am no brug expert. I just wing it and read all past threads for my info. LOL
This is last Aug.
LOL Sue. I have been hanging out on the rose forum going nuts over the first rose flushes. I didn't see this. Too funny. Have you yanked on it yet or is it glued together like that?
Brinda, Sue is a plant nuts. She and I go nuts together. We also dream lust over many we find online. A bad combo but we have such fun.
Shoot Sue, the phone just rang and I thought it was Lali. I am going nuts with anticipation.
I am leaving them alone, I like unusual things, LOL!
here's this mornings mutant shot.
and close up, getting a bit of that pale pink now
And maybe the Messanger had something to do with it but check out what it did to CG! All that new green leaves and buds were not there when I sprayed 2 weeks ago.
And check that seed pod out! It's gotta be a self, nothing else was blooming. Will they work?
I don't think they'll even have enough room to open properly!
Sue that last photo is amazing. I guess I better get out my Messenger. I have a pkg. of three sitting on my computer desk. I think I will take it outside and get things sprayed.
Linda
Oh you are making me so guilty. As we speak I am thirsting my old CG to death. I feel so terrible. I need the spot. It is horrible to watch it die such a slow death.
I love your underplants Sue. And I see you have the geranium I went nuts for at the Arboretum in flower.
Your CG is so happy!!
Patricia, does it still have the first Y on top? A picture would be great. Off the cuff I would say repot it in rich soil and fertilize it. I find the the bigger the pot the bigger the brug. I go from a 4 inch to a gallon to a 5 gallon pot to a 15 gallon ot a 25 or 30 gallon. Once in a 25 gallon pot I root prune each year and repot in the same pot but with fresh soil. And they get big and fat and full of green growth. If I do not repot every year o rlet them get rootbound, they get slow, pale and not much umph.
If I could see it I would tell you if it needs to be pruned. Once mine Ys, I do tip prune to get the side nodes to grow out and make it bushy.
They love to be fertilized also, Patricia. They really grow fast and full if you feed them.
Mine are in full sun. If you notice they deflate fast in the day and look badly stressed when in the heat of the day, you might want to move it to where it gets morning sun. I find if I put them in a lot of shade, they do not flower as well. In the heat, they can need to be watered a couple times a day esp if the pot is not big.
Good luck!! If you can post a picture.
Calif...
Are you going to take a cutting from the mutation and see if you can duplicate it? Or maybe you don't....I think that it would be interesting.
Hap
Sue, in this morning's mutant shot, the orchid-like plant between #3 and #4... what is it? Too gorgeous for words!!
Barb
Barb, that is a new cymbidium I got in March at the SF Lanscape & Flower show. The snails found it and the blooms look real bad now but here it is when I first got it.
It's called Mighty Remus 'Enos'.
Wow that is some mutant, what are you feeding those babies???
Pretty cool though.
Dee
How kewl....looks like she/he has pj's on!
TFS!
Joanne
Excuse me......sorry.....but are you taking cuttings of the mutant part.....really want to know....
Hap
Thanks, Sue! Definitely looks like I'm going to have to go down the Cymbidium road. That closeup is awesome!!
Barb
Hap, cuttings from mutant flowers do not stay mutants. Mutants are common with brugs mostly showing themselves as a flower that has 6 or more points instead of the normal 5. Isabella is famous for producing 6 pointers quite frequently.
Sometimes a brug flower might have only 4 points. Sometimes a brugs flowers might turn out shredded looking. On rare occasions a flower that is normally single might be a double. Or more commonly what is normally a double or triple will have singles. In every case if you take a cutting from these mutants they always grow to be like the normal original mother plant. The cutting does not produce mutants flowers only.
Mostly you see these odd flowers in the spring but I've had them on occasion throughout the year too. No one has ever really explained why this happens. It just comes with the brug territory.
Hope this helps :) ... v
Ditto what Vicki said ..........
;-D
I think that they must be alien plants.....(Humming the Twilight Zone theme song here!!!!!)
LOL, sorry Hap that I missed you asking that the first time but at least you got the answer I didn't even know about. I don't cut my little trees anyways, just maybe any frost damage and we had none this winter.
Twilight Zone lol!
These wierdo flowers always make me think of a cartoon I saw years ago.
A Mom is standing beside her little boy in front of a nuclear power plant. He has a foot growing from the top of his head. A friend of Mom's walks by and stops to chat.
She says "Well Hello Billy! You have grown a foot since I saw you last!" ... hee!
Oh dear, that's all too scary....and did you hear they want to build more?
Hap
My brain has probably been nuked a long time ago but I really don't worry about the power plants. I worked for almost 12 years in a company that built radiation monitoring safety systems for these plants. The standards and quality exceed NASA.
Yep I know accidents can happen so if I grow an extra appendage someday I'll repent lol!