The lovely Dorthea!

Let me warn you, this may be the only brug I post pics of for months! LOL. She is so accommodating and all else looks pretty bad. Thankfully she is such a good looker. Dorthea just keeps on blooming.

When I got her she was a small rooted cutting and immediately budded and the bloom was so much bigger than the plant! She has continued to bloom her heart out even though she is still quite small. I am thrilled she has had buds on her and this week she is opening them and what a grand sight.

Just opened.......... a newborn

I love it when the color is just starting to come out. She is pretty dark for being so chilly here.

She also pods quite well for me. A so nice friend just sent me fresh pollen for her, all sorts of fancy pink ones. She already has 3 pods.

Its a very pretty shape!

She's a beauty Kell. I love mine, seems to be easy to grow and bloom.

I love Dorthea.....she is one of the best!

I love the shape. A question: Dorthea is on eBay, but the color is very dark. Has she gotten that dark for anyone?

Gloria, I agree, she is easy and she loves to bloom. I love the shape too Alistair, her tendrils are to die for, she holds them high like a bird in flight most of the time.

Gee Veronica, I have seen dark pics of her and here she has gotten darker in the summer but I do not get the humidity to bring out the pinkest PINK brugs are capable of. I haven't looked on ebay yet, but I tend to think it does get much darker. Maybe Gary or Gloria will chime in.

Do not look too closely at this pic for she has been the winter food of a lone snail that had been so good at hiding from me until I found him on a begonia hiding out. This is how she usually looks for me with her tendrils held high.

And here she is opening even wider, waiting for a moth to pollinate her but I have done the deed already!! LOL

Mine gets deep pink. Here is first day open, so it is much lighter.

Tendrils on bud.

She sure is a beauty Kell, no wonder you are thrilled with her.

Got to love those tendrils Gloria! LOL. Any plant that puts our so many flowers even when conditions are so poor, gets my vote in top 10! Love your pictures.

Thanks Patricia. Do you have this one yet?

Not yet Kell, but I am try to get one.

I know this is a beginner question, but I'm stumped on this one. I obtained a cutting of a beautiful double white. As I've done with other Brugs, I stuck it in a glass of water and waited for some roots. It's been over a month now, and no roots. The leaves are still green and the cutting looks healthy. Should I re cut bottom and continue in water or powder it with rooting hormone and place in soil? Thanks for any advice on this one.

Hi Linda! I haven't forgotten your DP cutting or coming to see your incredible garden. Another month of good weather and few of my DPs maybe ready to be cut on. My yard is a wasteland. How did your garden make out during this terrible winter we had?

Do you have nodes on the part under water? If so, you might try putting it in wet dirt and then bagging it in clear plastic bag to make a GH environment for it. Some like to put it on a heating mat too. As spring approaches it may take off or perhaps it was too dormant when cut and not enough starch stored.

Thanks, Kell. "Nodes". Well, I think so. Actually I just took two close up pictures to send you (if I can figure out how to), and I think I saw two very small roots coming. So keep it as is, or put in dirt and bag it?
Linda

I'll try the picture.

And.....

I sure am no expert in water rooting, for mine usually rot in water. But looking at the edges there you may have rot started. Maybe someone else who roots this way will step in with their advice and opinion on your pictures. I know the nubbies you have there are a GREAT sign of success!!!

If it were mine I would transfer it into dirt and bag it. But then I am more comfortable doing it that way. I know many people root in water and do just great. If you do transfer to dirt, do not over water. It just needs to be wet once if bagged for the bag will retain the moisture.

I would dip it in rooting powder because of its antifungal properties for I can see where the bark was torn off there is some softening of the tissue. What I do is make a hole in the wet soil with a pencil, stick my powdered cutting in deep, then push the wet fast draining soil around it tight. I do not rewater for that would just wash off the hormone powder. Then I take a clear plastic bag and put water in, then drain it so some beading still on insides. I put a 16 ounce red plastic cup with cutting in it and close bag tight. I place in some shade till it roots. I have always kept where warm but am having better luck lately in winter keeping mine colder.

As we enter spring I bet your cutting just takes off either way you do it.

Hey my husband just told me we may have thunder snow tonight. What in the world is thunder snow? LOL. I need to move. How cold did your house get in our deep freeze a few weeks ago, Linda? The flats of Berkeley I think are zone 10.

Kell. thanks. I'll give it a few days and then try the soil and bag idea. In our freeze I only lost my parrot plant. I was lucky. My backyard is fairly protected. I'm in the Hills so I think my zone is in the teens. Too many micro climates. I'm very busy now beginning seed starting of veggies and flowers. This year it's in my dining room!
Linda