Looking good Posy! All I know is a earwig is ugly and they eat your leaves I am new to brugs to so I am having some troubles also....lost a few cuttings some are doing great.Congrats to you for getting that bug. :*)....how rude to chop on the baby.
Help my brugs are shriveling up
Posyblossom, Large Brugs can go dorment during Winter months but cuttings can't. Think about it, you are trying to get a stick to grow roots. Where do they get the energy? They will ned light if you want them to grow.
Lu, it's unlikely the bug hitched the ride with the cuttings. I'm potting all my cutting with commericial potting soil. I do alot of container gardening, and learnt the best way is to avoid using garden soil for our containers. Commercial potting medium eliminates all the worries about bringing bugs outside indoor. Besides, garden soil is ways to heavy to lug around, and the soil is so dense, it impeds airation and smother the young roots that are trying to form.
I was fortunate to have found 'Promix' a product imported from Canada (via my local friendly nursery), but in recent past, they claimed that other brand is just as good, and costs less. I've tried different brand and didn't like it as well. I tried too, to avoid commercial potting media that contained premix fertilizer for my rootings, so I can give them the exact amount of feedings when my plants need them.
Thanks to all of you for your great advice and encouragement. Us new Brug owners need all the help we can get☺A few days ago the weather was so warm and wonderful in PA, I took my roto tiller out and have all the soil churned up and ready for planting these Brugs and Confederate Rose Hibiscus come springtime. It was between 65 and 70F for 2 days and felt like summer to me☺
Great temps for January, don't get anxious and put them out too soon.
I know I'm ready to dig & plant after last summers' drought. This year has to be better, I hope!
Gloria
Posy what I love to do on nice sunny days is to take my brugs out for a couple of hours to enjoy the natural light.. they will wilt in protest if they get too much direct warm sun, but then I just bring them back in.. I enjoy taking them out with me for a while. I think I enjoy it as much as they do! Not that I spoil my babiez or anything. LOL
LOL, ZZsBabiez; I thought, I was the only one that take my brugs in and out of the gh's. Ok, ok, I do treat my brugs with lots of TLC I admit.
Kim
My poor babies are sitting in the garage with a sheet over them to help keep them warm and so they don't get too much light.
I check my jars today and I do believe I have a few little nubs coming out on one cutting. I moved them last night under the lights and put a piece of foil under them to help reflect the light up. One even looks a little perkier, but still too early.
"....sitting in the garage with a sheet over them......" Robyn, do you know how cold does it get in your garage? I don't think too much light is a problem, too little light that's when the problem comes in.
The latter....those that in the jars with added help "reflective light" sounds like a good idea.
My garage stays about 48 to 50. They are sitting directly under the large windows that the sun beats down in. If someone opens the garge door (I've threatened them all with in an inch of their life not to open it) I have burlap and a heat reflective paper in front of them to keep any sudden draft off them. The sheet help in that way too. It is a white sheer sheet so they do still get lots of light and they all still have their leaves.
Ok, best of lucks, I'm signing out.
:-)
Kim
thanks for all your input, it is really appreciated, everyones is.
Much luck getting them going. Think spring!
Gloria
Ha zz. You are a wonderful Brug Mommie. Thanks alot☺ I have been trying to show a little self control here by not dragging 14 plants up out of the basement every time the weather is nice. You have put me out of my self control mode and today if it warms up, I will bring those babiez up and out on the deck for some fresh air and sun bathing☺,under the umbrella if it's too much direct Southerly Sun on the deck. It is a job because I planted them in big dirt pots so I can just bury them pot and all in the Spring. I will be treating them as annuals and will do cuttings if they grow well,then in the Fall, dig up the Brugs,pot and all, cut the roots back and haul them all down to the basement for next winter.
Now if that is not love for the Beautiful and Awesome Brugmansias,then I don't know what is.
LilyLove,you better not sign off,we need you and the others here for advice and moral support☺
posyblossom-
you're doing the same thing that I do with my brugs (and other tropicals), "plant" the pot(s) in the garden, then dig 'em up in the Fall. DH bought me a handtruck and bungee cords that enables me to get the potted brugs back and forth as they do get quite heavy. Last year was my first year with brugs and I had a NOID white and a "White Monster" that both bloomed. This year I'll have pink, yellow and peach, in addition to my white brugs, thanks to some very generous DGers :)
Happy gardening!
Jan
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Happy gardening to you Jan☺.
Somehow I love♥ the visual of your hand truck and bungees. I see myself doing the same thing, trying to keep those Brugs as big as I can handle, year after year after.....
LU
This being my first year, I have yet to own my first Brug Bloom. I have NOIDS too and I love the secret they are keeping till Summer,then all should be revealed☺All my Brugs are from here,me, who thought I would never own even 1 have 10 still alive and thriving in the basement.
All have died but two, The Cuba is doing great, lots of little roots coming out and some small branches coming out all over it including the bottom that's in water. The peach is starting to get the little branches too and a few white nubs under the water for the roots. Ever since I moved them under the lights they have taken off, I wished I could have saved the others, too.
I will know better now about winter cuttings. No matter how bad I want them I should always wait til spring.
Ok, I was out away from your thread a couple of days.
But I'm back, and Robyn, I'm glad you still have a couple to cheer you on. I've noid pink and peach crossed with white Sauveolens brug seeds. Should you wanted to try a few I can mail you some for postage. Remember, this are unamed brugs.
Kim
Thanks Kim, so far I haven't had any luck with seeds. I guess I'm missing a step somewhere.
I'm new to seeds as well. A Dger's has suggested that with dried up seeds, we need to soak them in water to soften the cork-capsules, once it is softened. We need to peel the cork off before sowing. Sow them at a depth 1/3" keep the soil medium moist, at a warm temperature 75+ degree F. They should sprout within 10 days or so.
I peeled one and sowed it a few days a go. I'll keep a watch and see what/how it responds. Keep touch, patience pays off at the end.
Kim
p.s. with fresh seeds, it is said that we can sow the whole seed structure without the above treatment. But from what I've seen. The cord material that encapsulates the seed dried up pretty fast in room temp.
I've done all that, maybe my soil wasn't warm enough or I haven't waited long enough for them to germinate. I would like to try again. I will send you postage the first chance I get to the PO. Thanks so much for you offer.
You can dmail me for my addy. Limitted offer, before I give all these seeds away. I'll save a dozen for you of various mix.
Kim
I would love a mix, thanks. D-mailing you.
Happy gardening, Robyn. Good lucks.
Kim