This is my first year with Brugs... I planted one out in March and within weeks it started forming flower buds. With fertilization and little watering, it has grown roof high and has been flowering all spring and summer. I have read that cuttings will root in water; is this true and should I take them now? Does this brug look like a "Grimaldi" or is it another variety? Any info will be greatly appreciated.
Hello and welcome to the Brug forum!!! Your blooms are beautiful but not Grimaldi, click here for pictures of CG http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/3017/index.html
There is no way anyone could tell you for sure which brug via pictures and it would take a real expert to tell you if they were there in person, so I would just be proud as peaches that I had such a beautiful brug and refer to it as a "no name" or "unknown" pink.
Look on the front page of this forum for a link to the PlantFiles, start poking around and you will see why this is true. Soon if you are like me, you will become confused and get a headache trying to sort out the shapes and traits. lol lol
Yes brugs are fairly easy to root in water. Go to the Search forum box, top right of this screen. Enter 'rooting', select the Brugmansia Forum and enter. Some of the best rooting threads are the older ones so enter "monika" for the user name. A relatively new method being used is a container of water with an aquarium air pump, with a piece of tubing attached and what is called a air stone attached to that, put in the container to help control bacteria growth. to get postings on that method, enter "bubbler rooting" with just the brugmansia forum selected, no user.
You are a good Brug Mama!!
Judy
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Thank you so much Judycooksey, I feel like I've taken my child to the doctor and received a wonderful bill of health! A friend of mine picked this up last fall at the local flea mall and it sat in it's pot all winter on an unheated back porch, but by late winter, it was definitely showing signs of wanting to "get out there". I planted it where it could be enjoyed from the house as well as passers by getting a glimpse too... "and the rest of the story" you see from the pic. I have never grown brugs before, but always wanted to after seeing them on the Riviera (tv) and now has simply captivated me with it's imposing robustness lol...it has gotten huge. I have seen others around here, from a distance and don't know whether they are taken in for winter, or not; guess winter treatment is another chapter for later. I first have to absorb these sites you referred me to. Thanks again, Terry
P.S. fading elegance (this morning)
Stick around because come fall people will be offering cuttings for postage.. but WARNING when you get the cuttings, I don't care who they are from, soak them in a 10% chorox solution for 10 minutes to be sure you don't bring bacteria or a virus into your environment. Also keep them away from your other plants for a month or so just to be sure.
I didn't follow my own good adivice and have had an infestation of both broad mites and then spider mites this summer. *** I have NOT been able to verify that the Clorox will kill mites.
Also they will be labels with the names... but trust me a good percentage of them will be incorrectly labeled regardless of if you purchase them, trade them or get them for postage, so when you have your first bloom check to make sure by looking up the brug bloom and leaves on the PlantFiles.
Please do not trade, send for postage or sell any cutting unless you have had it bloom and know for certain that is it what you think it is.
I purchased many brugs via eBay and websites which were not what they were sold as. Why??? Because the people traded for them, did not wait for a bloom to verifiy the name, just sold cutting/young plants. When a purchased brug that is suppose to be a double pink turns out to be a single while, it is heartbreaking.
Judy
Edited to say - I've found no documentation that the 10% clorox bath will kill mites.
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wow good adavice... I just been gradually getting into brugs, but I never even thought about that and I havnt really had a mite problem before...But i would freak if it all the sudden happened.
steph
Judy, your excellent advice should be in a brug. sticky. So far the plants I have received have bloomed true, but I still have three to go. The feedbacks on ebay for brugs. can only be trusted so far, as they are given when the plant arrives, and which probably are not in bloom. Once given, the buyer has no recourse to amending their feedback if the plant fails to be as advertised.
Tussee
Allow me to make a correction.......
The 10% Clorox is for virus and bacteria, I've found no documentation that it will kill mites. (editing the above to reflect same info)
Judy
Terry,
I am NOT any kind of a Brug ID'er. Gosh! There are so many experts!
Your pink brug sure looks a lot like my "Rose Souvelons" I have about 3 different pink Brugs. The Rose Souvelons is different because it:
1. Hangs at a 45 degree angle, and is not pendulous
2. It has a "puffy" appearance to the bloom--not all smooth and straight.
I see that in yout photo.
Here's mine from last year. As I said-- I am NO expert!!!!
Gita
Oh, my Brug! It looks like it is a sister to mine. By chance I ended up with this brug and I am so totally "happy" with it and it's growth...and as I wrote Judycooksey, I'm locked in now with brugs. Thanks for your response so much and the pic. I noticed you photographed yours at night as well; how they show up then is spectacular. Thanks again, Terry
All right so burgs grow fine on the NC coast. I will be moving there full time Next year and I can hardly wait. My burgs are growing so slow.
I love that pink also.
Lavina.
