This is/was First Belle she (& a sister plant)was growing in a wine barrel(s) along my driveway. It was calling for an early freeze so I got a saw & hacked them off! Thought it was a mighty big cutting!
She (& her sister plant) were getting too tall to put into the greenhouse any longer so hopefully they will root & be just as big only shorter!
I do have several cuttings of her for trade or postage.
Bj
Here's a pic of the bloom. (Gets pinker in the South so I have been told)
(Geeze, LOL I didn't realize what a wreck I looked like! I'd been pulling plants up all day & it was really windy!)
Hello Bj, wow that is huge!! iam a newbie so i don't have any thing to trade yet, but i shore would like to have a cutting for postage. Kim
Don't have anything to trade this time of year. Please let me know about postage. I would love to give First Belle a Southern home. Thanks.
gloria
WOW is right, What a cutting that is:)
I would LOVE a cutting for postage, I'm zone 5 & have had some good frosts here, so my plants are going to sleep :( I do have a Naked Lady or some Peruvian Daff's..:)Anita
BJ,
Would also love a cutting...Will have something to trade for in late November.
Frank
Just getting into brugs and I have fallen in love. I would love to have a start for postage. I just took all my extra plants to the Midwest RU so I don't have anything to trade since fall is starting to end here.
Joyce
Bj, that is some cutting!! I rooted three slightly smaller cuttings from a hugh Brug I was forced to trim. Its roots had grown down between the pavers and into the ground while in the greenhouse two winters ago so I left it where it was year round. Earlier this year grasshoppers got under the slightly tilted pot and severed the roots. Now for my question: What does one do with the original mother plant? Toss it? Or keep it until spring and until I'm sure the tall cutting has survived?
WOW! That is one big brug. I just love the flower color. Are there any left for a novice brug grower?? I JUST got started, actually ended up with one of the brug babies that Happgarden was kind enough to share. It is going to be one pampered little plant this winter. Let me know what you need me to do. :^)
Bjsblooming, I would like to have a cutting for postage if you have any left.
Thanks,
Clayton
Bjsblooming, I would also like a cutting for postage, if their are still some available. Beautiful bloom!
Thanks,
Sharon
Am I too late for a cutting? I do have a few brugs that I could trade. Some are listed on my trade list and I have a few that I have not had time to list yet.
Janice
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I have quite a few different brugs. I could offer you for a couple cuttings. Let me know if you still have it available.
Patricia
If you have any left I would also love a cutting . Cindy
Hello JanLynn,
I have some orange cuttings not that bright but they are beautiful if you would like some I can send some for postage.
James
James-
sent you a dmail...thanks!!!
hi...if i'm not too late i'd love a cutting...thanks!
lynda
Please read the first post. This whole cutting is not getting hacked up & parted out. I did take some cuttings off of the top branches, tho not very many. I have sent many of you D-mail. The response for a cutting has been overwelming. If I have extras, I will post the # and we can go from there.
Bj
Hi Bj,
Do you have any more cutting
for postage. If so may I have a cutting.
Gale
Bj, they will come back from the roots in the pot, if you protect it during winter.. That is one big brug tree you're holding! I think you look pretty as the bloom, all windswept and enjoying your plants outside! Are you gonna root it in a bucket over winter? The whole cutting? I'm trying some tall cuttings that way this winter, I think it will work.
So, for next year when all the cuttings are producing new cuttings...we'll all sign up! I'm so new to brugs, but when the 'brug' bites, I guess;-))
BTW, one of our local nurserymen says that he throws his cuttings into the compost pile and that they root there by themselves. Think I'm gonna try that with cuttings from my one big brug. Nothing to lose, right?
Really, with all the response to Bj's post, there should be hundreds of cuttings available next fall! The only thing you have to lose is a couple cuttings, but we never know until we try. There are several ways to root brugs, you just find one that works for you. The compost pile is a new one for me. I snapped off a couple pieces of Maya in the spring and just stuck them back in the same pot the mama plant was growing in... I have 2 nice rooted cuttings now. I read somewhere that she won't root in water....I get nervous rooting them this time of year and I don't know why... but how I did the Maya in Spring was pretty stress free. And leaving the longer pieces in a bucket with an airstone bubbler over winter is pretty stress free, too. I have some cuttings in water from a very nice DGer and I'll be nervous till they are in a pot with leaves coming out.. (I won't lose any sleep over it, but y'all know what I mean, right?)
I actually got a cutting from a yellow unnamed brug to root in a cup sitting in the backyard! No stress for me since it was on its own except for the addition of water every so often. It has now been potted and is putting out a bud. Now that's luck I can live with.
tgg, I had cuttings in a bucket last winter... this spring I used some of them and left 5 or 6 in the bucket outside my garage... well, I forgot about them and upon cleaning out the garage/basement in preparation for bringing plants in for winter-- there they were! Growing leaves and roots all summer without me even putting water in the bucket... must of had just enough rain to supply ample moisture... big healthy roots on them... I gave them away at our fall round-up... They really are very forgiving plants that have a powerful will to live. If we can just keep the mites away!
I received two of the brugs AuntB is talking about and the roots are amazing. When I potted them it was a little difficult because the roots were so far up the stalk to find a pot deep enough to completely cover the roots height wise. But I got it done. I was surprised to get such a tall stalk with so many roots.
That's very encouraging y'all! But now you know I really NEED one more thing to obsess about;-)
Gosh, happgarden, I didn't think about the length of rooted area and getting it into a pot... sorry bout that, I think you had asked me what size of pot.... glad it worked out for you. I have everything in basement... (hard weekend-lol) except one brug I have in the ground. I cut my biggest trunk to the soil level on Pink Beauty, I'm experimenting again... it's bout 3-4 inches across and it's in a bucket of water.... we'll see. It's really a huge "cutting?" I cut the top back to the 2nd "Y", stripped leaves, blooms, buds (sniff sniff) and it still almost touches the ceiling down there. I hope to get a lot of large roots forming to support the size of the thing next summer... it will go in the ground because it was around 11 or 12 ft tall and very tippy in the pot with the wind gusting around. Next fall I will take cuttings and let the root ball freeze, I'm not digging them up, mostly because I'm not physically able. I am trying to winter the one I have in the ground with more dirt, and 4 or 5 bags of mulch laid over the stump. I doubt it will survive, but I'd be tickled if it does. (I needed this to obsess over in addition to all the other things I'm obsessing over, too) lol
I have a brug cutting I would like to send to my best friend in PA. It would be my first time to ship & I've never received a cutting. Can anyone help??
I've been trimming my brug after the last frost since I planted it about 4 yrs ago. I always save about 12-15 cuttings to pot in potting soil & lots of perlite, watering with root stimulator. They are rooted & growing within 2-3 weeks. I use those plants along with some others from my garden to sponser my "Mom's Weekend Away" with my girlfriend in the spring.
AuntB, I am sure not complaining at all about the size of the brug and the roots, I was just shocked to see them. Prior to yours all I had ever seen was my cutting which was about 5 inches long...so you can imagine what I thought when your daughter carried them up! LOL..I had no idea that a brug would get 11 or 12 feet tall, is that in one year? The monster white that was given to me has two branches now. It is funny how different they all grow, I have 2 white cuttings and they sit right next to each other and one is much taller than the other. I haven't lost any leaves on the two you gave me so I am happy about that. They say we are in climate warming you may luck out and your brug in the ground might make it. Trick is the consistent temperature. Hey, I just thought they always say compost piles make their own heat why wouldn't something like that work, which is what you are doing. I have never done a compost pile but I have seen them on TV LOL....Closest I came is when I take bunches of leaves and put them in cages over my roses.
Well, I think I have promised out the cuttings that I did get off of her. I did stick that whole stock into a 5 gal. bucket & it looks pretty good! It would be a real chore to ship this size a cutting. no? LOL!
Bj
Maybe 2 or 3 of those fed ex triangle shaped boxes? lol - I can imagine the look on the fed ex peoples face if I came carrying in 3 of their boxes all taped together. Bj, I hope our tree size "cuttings" sprout roots. I think they will. Joyce, I knew you weren't complaining, I just didn't think about pot size and the length of the root stem. The Pink Beauty will probably get that tall.....I was kind of shocked when I found them in algae water like that. I immediately cleaned them up and gave them fresh water.... thinking 'gee, hope I don't shock them or something'.. Thanks for the positive input and thoughts on my in ground experiment... I'm so hopeful on all my trials.
jjmr, that is a wonderful idea to fund your weekend away! I cut mine about 7-10 inches, so they fit in a priority box, with plenty of leaf nodes where the roots will start,. I just roll them in newspaper, stick em in the box and ship out. I try to send out the next day or two after cutting. I think you can cut them shorter, but I like to give plenty. The ends will dry a bit, but that's okay.
These are tough & forgiving plants. Last year I had planted many in the ground as all the "growers" here said they do so great in the ground. (Thio, mine didn't do any better than in pots!) We had a frost coming (late Oct.) & I dug & dug & moved plants in until I couldn't hardly move. I had forgotten one big one on my back deck, Not wanting to move another thing, I went out cut the most of it down & tossed a cover over the stump to mostly peserve the groundcover growing around the base. several weeks & frosts later, I remembered that poor plant, I uncovered it & it was certainly mush. but the groundcover looked still green so I got the dolly & rolled it into the garage. Then promptly forgot about it. Sometime in April I looked at the poor pot & it didn't look like much was still green, but I tossed what was left of my bottle of water in there & a week later, still nothing. The trunk was completely dried up! So things got moved on top of the pot & soon you didn't know a pot was there. In Aug. we had a yard sale I uncovered the pot to find a very pale yellow (nearly white!) sprout from the roots of this poor Brug. I was amazed! I got the dolly & moved it out of the garage, gave it a good drink of water & that darn thing just took off, got green & is doing fine! Now that's a tough plant!
I've got "Grand Marnier" cuttings to trade.....and if you don't want to trade.....just let me know the postage...thanks!!
Bj ~off topic just a little bit: how did the original plant fare after the trunk was cut? I have a Charles Grimaldi that is similar in size that I'm trying to figure out what to do with it. Like, should I cut it back? should I leave it as is and have a huge tree to deal with this year? It's in one of the larger plastic pots I got at Costco a couple of years ago, and I was thinking about upsizing it to a half oak barrel this spring. It fared very well this winter ~ still has some leaves even, and had a smallish bloom in December.
Anyway, thanks. Mostly wondering bout the cut and your half barrels. Any experience to share to another northwester would be appreciated!
Sanna
My goodness, I have no brugs and really don't know much about them, except they're pretty, pretty! My jar just dropped when I saw the picture you posted!! I had no idea they would do that, my first though, was what kind of fertilizer is she feeding that thing! I want some of that! LOL Thanks for sharing both the pictures and the information.
Ain't it a stunner? I've a cutting and can hardly wait til bloom time : )
Thanks Bj!!!
Kim
Kim
How did yours do over the winter? I also received some cuttings from BJ & they did great through the winter months! Great root systems! Can't wait to get them in the ground - soon!! :)
Mike
They did wonderful Mike!
I will put mines in the ground too.
I have been using the recipe and the leaves are big and pretty.
Kim
I read the 'recipe' thread & I may have to try it also! :) I wonder if ours will get as big as BJ's! lol! Hope so!
Mike
