I hope I am not boring all of you who have seen brug blooms for years....But I am excited and these are my first so please bear with me....
My blooms this evening
wonderful bloom... did you grow that over the winter? The ones I rooted this winter are only a few inches tall!
Tammie
...BTW... firsts are more special... hopefully I will have some firsts some day.
I forgot to say that was Isabella, and this is another view
I had them in the greenhouse....all 70 of them!!!
70!!!! I want to see a picture of all of them together... must be a site to see. I really do enjoy seeing the entire plant... not just the bloom.
Tammie
70,, WOW...
Elaine
And I had never even heard of a brug before last June! Here is Golden Lady tonight
I will post all the pics I can, but my computer is dial up so be patient with me
Golden Lady's skirts
This ia the two of them together
ooops forgot the pic!
I don't have a pic with all of them together, but I will do the best I can
This is some of them when they were in the greenhouse
Here are some more
a couple more
Here are some when they were just sticks
oops again
Here are a lot of them when I pulled them out of the greenhouse
and more
still more
amd more
and this is aboput it except for some that are in the ground
Here is one in the ground that is fixing to bloom
and here is one that is about to open
Here are some buds on Butterfly. It has already bloomed once
Hope you enjoyed the show! It only took an hour for me to post all of those. that is not bad for my computer! I decided to shrink them down which helped a lot. As you can see a lot are not very big and they don't all look the healthiest...But they have been in the greenhouse and toward the last f winter they began to suffer... Spider mites, and one really cold spell that bit their leaves back. I had to take almost all of them off then. Next year will be better because I will have a second greenhouse and I will be alot more organized. plus I will never use the bug spray I used again! It mottled the leaves on a lot of them, and other plants too
WOW,, again. I just sprinkled bayer 2 in 1 rose &flower care on mine... white flies grrrrr. I also sprinkle epsom salt ... it really helps leaves green up fast. It is cheaper in drugstore than garden area..
Do you have "Ollie" Brug? It is white and smells wonderful. I have rooted cuttings (blooms on some) would love to trade when yours get bigger.
Elaine
I don't have Ollie. I will be happy to trade when they get bigger. As you can see they are all quite small and an cuttings now would at best be green and at worst be the whole plant...LOL
Well, you have floored me and given me hope. Mine are a little smaller than yours... I started the cuttings this past winter in my atrium. Now I know they can bloom when they are that small. I prefer them to grow more first though but a bloom is a bloom. There is absolutely nothing blooming in this yard right now.
Thank you soooo very much for the pictures of the plants. I really appreciate it.
Tammie
I have no blooms here and won't for awhile so I love seeing yours!! You are going to have so many brugs! You have brug disease bad. LOL They will all shape up fast once you feed them and get them into the ground or biggr pots. They always respond to bigger areas of dirt to grow in! I always give them a foliar feeding to get them to green up and start a spurt fast.
I plan to feed tham and replant them in ground or bigger pots as the case may be for each one (some are definately not hardy to my area) I also plan to use messenger, but have not done so yet. MIne are all from cuttings recieved this fall and winter...
Has anyone tried messenger on brugs? I have some and sprayed them a few weeks ago... all the leaves look burned on the edges and got crispy from the outer edge in. Unitl they were just a single central vein and no leaf. I don't know if the messenger did it or something else is doing it. I did sprinke a little balanced time release fertilizer into the pots but was VERY CAREFUL not to put more than a few granules per pot.
Here is a picture. The newer leaves on top are still doing it slightly and it has been almost 3 weeks. Anyone have any idea?
Tammie
I used Messenger last year, and there was a difference. The key is to spray in the morning, when the (can't remember the name of the particular part of the plant is) "pores" of the leaves are open, so the leaves can soak everything in. Don't spray during the heat of the day (just like plant food), or the plants can burn.
When I used Messenger my plants definitely had a "growth" spurt, and the blooming process sped up as well. There are certain plants you don't want to use Messenger on though, like Morning Glories, and I'm at a loss for what the others are.
I'm definitely using Messenger again this year. :)
A lot of people use Mesenger on brugs. The brug forum is where I learned about messenger last year
don't spray anything on the leaves when the sun is very hot. I learned the hard way, lost a bunch of leaves, but plant came back. ok, Yardqueen (love that name) later, when those baby Brugs are all grown up..
Elaine
Just from using Messenger myself and listening on the threads, I would not use Messenger unless my plants were in good form already and healthy. If they are struggling, I would think a Messenger growth induced state including encouraging them to form buds, could be so exhausting for a plant not up to it. I have heard the complaint that people find Messenger exhausts plants and I think this is why.
I also would not use it on Coleus for they bring them right to seed even young ones. Then you fight to keep them alive.
What does Messenger do to morning glories?
Tammie those leaves look like they have been in the wind... that's kinda how mine look after a thrashing wind.. it could be slugs or cats eating the leaves too..
I used Messenger last year, but didn't see any huge difference... I would use it again just cause I have some left! Everything is growing so good this year... I'm happy.. I just hope I don't have to wait till Sept for blooms!
I did not realize the leaves were so tender they would do this from wind... guess I will have to get used to it since wind is what we have as much of as sunshine. They have been thrashed a little...not horribly so. If the wind is enough to turn pots over, I move everything out of the wind.. My big hibiscus gets turned over when the wind gets really going and that pot is HEAVY... I have big rock in the bottom of it and water the daylights out of it when it is windy to make it heavier... but still gets turned over .. here is a pic of it last year.. right now it is sticks just starting to put out a few leaves but has already been blooming!
edited to say... that pot looks small in the picture.. It is not... it is the largest they sold at Walmart ... about 20". It is so heavy I can barely drag it and I am able to lift the 55 pound bags of watersorb crystals so I am not a complete weakling.
This message was edited Apr 26, 2007 3:58 PM
