Here we go - here we go again!!
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Brug 2
OK, I will get this going.. my cuttings were all doing so well and now some of them are just dropping dead from the top down.. I can't figure out what is wrong. The tops are shriveling up. I am glad my Mountain Magic is doing OK.. not growing but not dying either. The weather here has really warmed up a lot and I am thinking of taking them outside. Has anyone else already moved theirs out?
Tammie
I had to move my citrus trees out of my greenhouse because I had to spray against broadmites and spidermites. I haven't moved anything else out. We've had late March freezes that got down in the high twenties. I though I'd wait at least until mid March before moving my Brugs out.
I've had some die back as well. In fact a thread was started in the Brugmansia Forum about it. There were a lot of maybes, but no reason for it or a solution for it either. Don't throw them out yet. They may come back from the roots. You could knock out the rootball to see if it is healthy. If it is, a little fertilizer may encourage a new shoot.
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/810260/
That is very sad Betty - I had been reading over there your thread before and very strange and hard for us good Brug parents to take.
Anyway I went ahead and moved all my Brugs outside - no more 32 degrees from now to when we start moving and they have to go outside for a while them at least sooooo here goes and if I need to bring them in for the night well I am glad the soil less mixture is light!
Mitch,
It's amazing how much warmer a city can be. You're in zone 8a. I'm at the bottom of 8b. Yet the forecast for Tuesday is 34ºF, but it's usually 2 to 3ºF cooler here on the ranch than NOAA's forecast for the area. So I'm expecting a light freeze.
For the last two winters, we've had a mid- to late March freeze that has zapped the flowers on my peach and plum trees. My Beauty plum blooms late. So I did get fruit from it last year, the first year it produced fruit. It's still quite small, but it gave me about 25 very tasty plums. I'll have to throw some burlap over the citrus trees I took out of the greenhouse so I could spray for broadmites and spidermites.
Although most Brugs can handle a light freeze without permanent damage, I don't want to take a chance. The leaves nipped by frost will turn black and fall off. If the Brug cultivar is very frost sensitive, there will be more damage. At any rate, the plant has to put out a new set of leaves and that takes energy which could be used toward growth. I have many that are more sensitive to frost. Rather than picking and choosing which go out and which stay, it's easier just to let them all stay indoors. After I spray again this Wedneday, I'm going to start repotting. The warmer day time temperatures should encourage growth. The other thing I need to consider is that I have very few large plants. I had to start over again after that mass death I had last year. Most of my plants are small cuttings in, at best, gallon containers. They may not make it through a freeze.
Tell me about it... I am warmer here then I was in Waxahachie - and that is SOUTH of me now! I have Trailing Lantana that blooms all year long - non stop... I feel very blessed. I am guessing that I35 being so close and such makes it warmer here by the house? There has been times people close to me have been hit hard and here nada - guess I am selling this year one of those great places in the Dallas area for keeping it a little bit warmer.
Can't believe how fast time is going. What is your target date, Mitch?
We are getting most of the house moved the second week of March to OKC storage unit. Then fix whatever and get it on the Market ASAP. Esther and Chi will move on up when the house sells, but I have have to stay here until school is out the first week in June... I know it is running by so fast! My last year teaching and it is just flying by!!
Where are you moving to Mitch?
Oklahoma - the OKC area for now but heading out Eastern OK when we find a place.
Eastern OK is lovely in the hills. It seems so remote and beautiful although I know it is populated. Rather like our area here. Good luck.
Thank you - that is where we are from and it is time to go back home.
I've never been to OKC, but I have driven through eastern OK and I remember thinking it looks a lot like the TX hill country, just slightly hilly and very open. It was really nice.
It is the one place I would consider should I ever relocate. I was enamoured of it.
It is soo wonerful... and very few people over there.. nice big spaces with trees and hills...
Do you have any particular spot in mind? Or whatever strikes your fancy? You'll have to have a basement to overwinter your plants! LOL When we moved back to Texas almost 7 years ago, we rented a truck to move plants I would not part with. Movers won't transport plants.
Tell me about it... My Grandparents, Grand Grands, and Great Great Grands all the way to the way to the Trail of Tears have lived in the Falfa area not too far from Robbers Cave way out on Highway 1. There is the great large city of Pear Groave near by.. with 15 or so people there, and Talihina is the big city not toooo far away.