is most don't make the grade!!
I am at such a disadvantage because it is so cool here none of the colors showing indicate the true summer color. I could be tossing a hot PINK! OH NO! LOL
But I also judge the shape and only 1 makes the grade and another is a possible.
The closer together the nodes the more flowers!
These are down at my rented plots. All seedlings about 13 months old. I do not care for them very well. I never prune. I water maybe every week and this time it has been 10 days between watering. The soil is clay which saves me. I fertilize maybe twice a summer with 20-20 -20 cheap fertilizer from HD. I had bought expensive stuff and then never got around to using it. I did spray with Messenger once.
A wider view.
Here is a seedling from the other side of the plot. It was loaded but the blooms are ugly. So it will be tagged to be dug soon.
I missed the show on this one but from what I can see, no cigar.
Kell, don't you think a good dose of Cal-Mag or Epsom Salts would help them bring the color out now? I have Tropical Sunset and Milk and Honey ready to pop open any time now and that is what I have been doing. I am not as close to the coast as you, but we have been in the 40s at night for the last 3 weeks. Also, Rhapsody is due somewhat later, hopefully she will make it before winter, and she would be a good one to tell if the magnesium will help.
Jeanette
Kell, I was typing my post when you were typing your last 2. Don't know if the mag would help or not in your case.
I just cannot imagine how you get such beautiful plants. Regardless of the flowers. My plants are so small compared to yours Even the ones in the ground don't do squat. They not only do not bloom, they don't get limbs on them like yours do.
Tell me what I am doing wrong..
Jeanette
I had not heard that those would bring out the PINK, I know they will green up the foliage. It is so cool in the day here and I have no humidity so my pinks rarely show up Jeanette. Have you found they darker PINKS?
Here is my one winner so far, RK X EP. Leave it to mother nature to make a great one, forget all my own crosses crossed, LOL!
And it does not have too much EP neck but the tendrils are very very long. I bet in the right weather she is dark enough too.
As you can see, I do little Jeanette. LOL. At home I do a lot more to them but they grow big here too in totally different soil. though I think it truly is the soil. Oh I also plant them with steer manure, 99 cents a bag. I also pour it on after I plant the seedling. At home I pour it all over my beds twice a year.
Also that 20-20-20 has really worked for me. I put a big handful in each pot when I first planted them, then watered well. I was afraid I would burn the roots but I didn't!
Here is my maybe one. It was a great color and the recurve so cute. Good tendrils too. It is marked unknown but I can tell it is a EP cross too. Too much neck fo rmy taste but other than that........ a possible.
Here is another that is not bad but not special enough to keep. I do wonder if this one will be dark when it gets hot and has some humidity. It is a X Red. I may keep it one more year.
I have a lot more pics but they are all more or less the same.................. so this will be my last one.
Those are beautiful Kell. You know, that old cow crap just might be the answer. I put it in my raised bed and those plants just went crazy. I will have to remember it for next year. I use the triple 20 with the cal-mag also. They sure don't seem to do much tho and it has been in the 90s here for the last week.
I'll see what these 2 that are ready to bloom do. Maybe it is the heat.
Jeanette
Brugs like it around 80 or below in the day Jeanette and lower at night. 90 is a bit hot for their taste.
I spread cow manure on in the late fall if I am together so it gets rained in over winter.
I also have about a hundred pods that are all shapes and sizes, all done by some bug(s). I wonder what is down there pollinating them.
Here are 6 different brugs that have pods from today. I was there from about 5 to after 8 and it was just dark for my last pictures which is why they are dark.
Oh here is another I took just before I hung up my camera on a tomato cage so I could finish gathering my tomatoes. My best shot.
The jewels of summer.
I have them in every color ............. on Fridays they need to go to a homeless shelter.
At any rate, I hung my camera up on a tomato cage to keep it out of harms way and was finishing up watering the tomatoes and then carrying everything to my car. I then went back and grabbed the hose and turned around and watered my camera.........just a wee bit.
On the way out I tried to take a few more pictures, at first it was working then the flash came and went and bleached out the pics and then went dark. I got home and it wouldn't even let me download any pictures, I had to pull out my other broken camera to do it. So now my camera is caput just from a bit of water. Double SHOOT!
Here is the last picture it will ever take. How sad is this?
Oh Kell, two bad things in the past two weeks now, shoot!
My mouth is now watering for a nice juicy tomato sandwich, and I am up way too late to eat anything now but I will have to go see if my Mom's plants have anything I can raid tomorrow, nothing like a home grown tomato, so much flavor, mmmmm.
Well... Kell..
About the grandest display.. they are certainly out doing themselves for you... grand points indeed.. the colors are wonderful... I'm in awe..totally.. not to mention your powess..
Keep me in mind ..when you discard/release/sell anythng of that caliber... OK.. I'll have to develop the flowers myself... I guess I understand that... and no small task it might be.. but I'm closer to being able to do that.. than I am to making anything I have get that pink... that pretty...or with tips so well developed... I'm a strong pink lover also..
might be that after taking such a grand photo.. your camera broke... so as not to have to shoot a lesser brug again... continued great ...Success... Gordon
This message was edited Sep 7, 2006 4:32 AM
Do you believe it, Sue? I am going broke. I just now ordered a new camera so I hope I get it fast. I guess no pictures Saturday when we go to the begonia show and sale in Sacramento. I got the top of the line of the point and click from Canon, the Canon PowerShot SD700 IS. It has been out for awhile so I just know next week they will come out with a better one and I will be stuck with this one. This is my 4th camera in about 8 months. Tom is going to kill me.
I would love to try another brand but then I would have to read a manual. LOL I am so hopeless.
It only has 6MP but has a image stabilizer which is a new feature for this type of camera. I should really jump to the next level and get one like yours but I am too dumb. Your pictures are so good! I need to take a class if I get one like that.
I have soooooooooo many tomatoes. I love tomato sandwiches too with Best Foods mayo on balloon bread. YUM YUM good. Too bad you are not near! We could drown our troubles in tomatoes together.
Thank you so much Gordon! So which brug grabbed your fancy? Each pic is of a different one. The RK X EP is really the best one though the lightest in color right now. In spring if I get it to root and it still looks good, I will send you a piece to trial in NYC for me. With that heat and humidity it might get to be a great color PINK.
To get a few good brugs, you just need 2 quality brugs to cross and you are bound to get a couple of nice brugs out of a pod. I can't take credit for the best of this lot for it is a Rothkirch X Ecuador Pink, both hybridized by God not man. The trick is to grow as many as you can out of a pod to increase your chances of catching that special one or 2. The rest will be nice no doubt but not special enough or different enough to keep.
oh my Kell your brug plot is beautiful. I wonder how many people stop to see all the blooms as they go by. So sorry about your camera ;-( Still begging for blooms here. This heat has really been bad this year
Kell, just tell me where you pile up the rejects....lolol...all of your pictures are pinkalishous.....sorry about your camera...before you finished telling about it I just knew what was coming...ohhhhhhh I cringed when my camera fell on the floor......I about did something in my pants......Judy
Yummmm .. on that first pic I though it was one plant and my jaw dropped to the floor!
X
Kell... I sure would like to see the ones you like. The pictures of the ones here are very pretty.
kell I am always amazed at the ones you say do not make the grade, they are all just beautiful, I just wish I had the kind of weather to leave them out all winter I would have every inch of my yard filled with them, right now all of mine are in full bloom and in the evening it smells heavenly. I have more blooms now than I have ever had, and right when I offered cuttings so they will need to wait awhile.
I am still wanting a very dark pink, and a double.
Doris
Such beauties Kell. I like the ones with long tendrils!
I have LOTS of big red tomatoes, one slice would fill the sandwich. Don't think I can eat anymore this year..........
Pretty pics, Kell. Boy, do you go thru the cameras. LOL
Kell, try setting your camera somewhere warm and dry ( especially dry!) for several days (or more). Once it completely dries out, it might be just fine. I did that with my camera once. Or maybe twice. Coulda been three (or more) times. Plus, not so good to take pictures in rain. Ask me how I know. Each time, it wouldn't work after that, but, after leaving it and letting it totally dry out again it worked just fine. It did finally die of old age (actually, a failing ability to charge the battery - musta been a boy camera...).
OMG these are beautiful!
You toss brugs most of us would die for. I would love to have cuttings, even though I have never tried a cutting. Most of mine are from seeds. I did order a couple on the web though. Keep me in mind if you want to get rid of some cutting.
I love the dark pink and the orange and the light pink and any other color lol. Oh yes and the one you named Ruthie, beautiful
Linda
my mouth is waterting for some of those tomatoes, the weather has not been good for ours this year
Kell has Tendril Fixationismitis. I'm afraid it's a terminal case with no hope! Even TF Anonymous couldn't do anything for her. LOL
X
Oh Kell ---sorry abt your camera. Your brugs are beautiful. dixie
LOL X!!
I hope I do not come across as a brug snob and make you all nuts with my appearing to be cavalier in saying I toss so many brugs. It is just after you have grown a few hundred of them and most are PINK, they really are not very special anymore. You have to develop your own standards or you would drown in them or I should say drown even more in them.
In the beginning, I would judge a brug only on color but after I got enough with good color, I could afford to be more picky as to shape. Every eye forms its own beauty my Mom would say and she is right. So I cull according to my taste. Very few if any brugs have it all, color, style and grace and even a good fragrance and then staying ability. I now feel style is much more important than color.
I have an image in my mind of what I would find to be the perfect brug. I have not seen it yet. LOL But it will be a huge but graceful single true PINK with some sass and most importantly full, full luscious brug lips which are big, soft and pillowy with a proportional balloon like recurve. MMMM good!
Thanks Dixie! My poor camera though fairly new has taken more pictures than most peoples have in a lifetime. I can take a 2 to 300 in a day easily and often on my day trips I take 3 GB full. So I do not feel cheated that if it is dead. I got my money's worth for sure.
Carter, I left it opened up overnight and I sure hope you are right. THANKS for the tips. Though I have already moved ahead overnight to getting my new camera with the image stabilizer that I sure could use. I never due zoomed in photos because they always are blurry so this new feature will be well appreciated. However, I bet they come out with all sorts of fancy new ones as we approach Christmas so it might be prudent to wait till then.
I can imagine your neighbors saying there goes that crazy woman again digging and ditching all those pretty plants. They look good to me.
That is what my husband says daily to me and any one else who will listen except his adjective for the plants is not "pretty". LOL
The closer the nodes the more blooms too, I just took a picture to post of 40 buds on 12 inches of brug.
Carter, you are so smart...... I just took a picture of my summer jewels.
And here is one for Sweet Sue from Fat Kell, eat your heart out. LOL And surprise, my DH had bought English muffins........perfect....................
Hmmmm Hmmm GOOD!
Hi Kell their are times when i want to give up growing brugs but your pictures inspire me. being so hot this year my brugs did not set buds until two weeks ago and here it is september. We can get our first heavy frost around the second week of october. so i will still keep on plugging. bob
