'Forcing' brugs

This may be a dumb question but has anyone experience with getting brugs to bloom out of season?

I am doing a little presentation on brugs at the MG Plant Expo on April 20th and someone has volunteered to supply me several brug varieties. Hopefully they'll be blooming- does anyone know of a way to tilt the odds more toward them blooming for sure??

I'm trying to get a few more locals hooked on brugs and blossoms, especially doubles, on my props will help!

Thanks

Well if well fed and taken care of they seem to bud. The only thing I have noticed that seems to work at getting them to bloom earlier is Messenger.

Good luck at your show!!

I've never read about forcing Brugs to bloom. Maybe if you selected some plants that already had "Y"s and used a regular regiment of fertilizer and the weather cooperated, you might have some flowers. Usually a plants has to have something that can be "forced" — long days, short days, exposure to weather changes. I would imagine that Brugs are like roses. Give them food, water, growing conditions and wait for 4 - 8 weeks for buds to set and bloom.

My brugs in the greenhouse have been blooming all winter, here and there. Haven't fertilized since November, and they are in the more shady part of the g'house. Just been watering, and they bloomed. Perhaps since they were about 8 feet tall.............LOL Not any more, after they bloomed the 2nd time, I chopped them way back. This was about 2 weeks ago. They are leafing out like crazy again.

I should have said that the rooted cuttings are all above the Y and they have been in a greenhouse all winter.

so it sounds like with fertilizer, some should be blooming soon. I know my friend had one blooming in February but it is a 3 year old plant.

Thanks, all!!

Brenda