Hello Hotties!! Im back! at least for 2 weeks! lol! then we have to go back to the cabin to work some more :o(
I started trying to catch up on this thread about an hour ago.... then just gave up! lolol! you all have been chatty again!
ok, so what did I miss?
Melissa, how are your new brug babies?
AuntB have you found all your marbles yet?
Peg, whatcha got bloomin?
Becky...LOL @ Rebecca Anne! I Was ALWAYS in trouble... hence the full name of Annmarie! lolol! no Annie, or Ann or Anna.... always Annmarie......hmmmm
where is everyone??
She's about to... # 4
AuntB, when Versi Peach blooms, please post a pic. Some special Joyce sent me one and I'm having mini fits to see a bloom.
I have a pink and a red hibiscus, and if anyone wants seeds, I'll be glad to share. Can they be rooted from cuttings? If so yours for the asking.
What is BP? Should I even ask...Could it be another wishful addiction?
Marion, looks like we are all allowed to 'ad lib' here in our thread since all the sistas all are hotties. lol. I love you guys!!!
Becky, we've to team up to beat the odds against anti-bloom on gingers. lol. I've to admit, recently, I was bitten by the 'gingers' bug'. LOL. Oh yes, Milk & Honey brug, is just like its name implied. Put a little bit of honey into milk and stir -- there you'll have the creamy peach color. ^_^
oooh! I need a milk & honey! lolol! and a versi peach, how many different brugs are there?! lol! I'm gonna run out of room! LOL!
does anyone have a pix of the ginger? I am pretty new to gardening and havent seen them....
I do believe that hibisuc can be rooted from cuttings :o)
Annmarie, oooh girlfriend you're on the brink of trouble! Trouble of getting into some other plants that you can't just walk away. lol.
And yes, I've rooted hibiscus successfully in early spring. :0)
Kimbob
AuntB your "hot" pink hibiscus is gorgeous. Can it be rooted from cuttings? If so, how? I would like to try rooting from my pink (very light pink) from cuttings and then I'll have some to share.
Kimbob did you root your cutting in water, or root tone and potting soil?
Any advice appreciated.
Faye
Faye, the cuttings (semi-hardwood cuttings) were easily rooted by just simply stuck into the soil and kept high humidified. I kept mine pot in an area where they received bright light but no direct sunlight in early spring....they took roots that way after a few weeks.
Likes Bonnie has mentioned earlier, it's kinda difficult to nip off those cuttings on hibs. since they blooms at the terminal ends. So for every cuttings we take away, we're losing the potential blooms that will come for the season.
I also feel that there is no reason why we can't root hibs. in the fall when the weather cool down. Personally I haven't done that, but I shall try this year and see how it will turn out.
Kimbob
Thanks Kimbob. I don't think I'll mind taking the cuttings from the back side because it is up against a fence and will not be missed...(much)
I hope I have done this right--if not--oh well! Kaempferia pulchra 'Silver Spot"
My goodness hottie sisters... We are into brugs, Hot Ross hibiscus, ginger, bird of paradie and what we wear outside in the mornings!
Joyce, you are not, repeat not, clothes challenged.
I've got a 30-year-old story involving a hand-made crocheted lined swimsuit, that was a gift, and dumb me getting out after swimming and playing kick ball (soccer) with a bunch of the teenage sons of our friends. To tell it short, the guys and I had a great time playing kick ball, BUT, two days later, someone asked me about my "disappearing swimsuit." Totally unknown to me, after I was swimming, it became "see thru." I was totally embarassed, (what's worse than embarassed??). My kickball buddies are now in their 30s, and they still tease me about that kickball game. I blew up at DH at the time, "why didn't you tell me?" His very low-keyed answer, "No one was complaining." Oh that made me feel better....
Brilliant red face, here. So Joyce, you have nothing to worry about. I doubt you hear about being clothes-challenged 30-years later...
And I can't believe I just told that story on myself. Nite, sisses. Peg
Kim of pa, some of our sis are asking for a new brug HeLP, cannot do this without your help, hee, hee, we have a secret you hottie ones, cannot tell yet! Clemen
And Aunt B worries about her marbles... I have lost worse than that!! Peg
Peg, I can relate to that!!! Sounds like something my hubby would have said. Yikes their sense of humor!!!
A secret Clemen? Now, it's not nice to have secrets from your Hottie sistas. LOL
Nite all!!
Hee, hee, ask Kim of pa..........No I am not trouble maker, meg is hahahahahaah Clemen
Forgot to ask, that Pink beauty of mine, closes during the day opens at night, what's wrong with this bruggie, anyone knows?????????Clemen
Meg, "I didn't do it, Peg did." Peg, "I didn't do it, Merpeg did." Merpeg, "I didn't do it, I think it was Peck." Beck: "Would you quit getting Peck and Beg mixed up? I did NOT do it" (Beck is innocent, at least now!!) :))
Guys, Mer peg guilty, hee, hee, Clem
Told you Clemen, not to give that brug too much coffee at night!!! Too funny!
Rofl!!!
Night ladies!
Clem, at lot of the flowers do that. During the heat, they close up and at evening, you get their best bloom and fragrance. I think the plant is conserving its energy that way, protecting itself. I have read a lot of threads with the hibridizers that they are out at night, with lights on their helmets, to do their hybrid work. So, I don't think anything is wrong with it, it's just being natural... But, we need x-perts here again...
peg, LOL@ the swimsuit issue! I was at a BBQ with the Mayor and entire city council,quite a few years ago, was wearing a borrowed swim suit and out in the pool playing volleyball with the city council..... I jumped up out of the water to slam the ball back over the net.... top stayed in the water... :o( I STILL get ribbed about my 'score' and how it shouldnt have counted cause everyone on the other team just stood there and stared! lolol! They tried to call foul....no way was I gonna let them get off with a foul when I had to go to such extreme uncomfortable measures to get that point! lol! did I mention that I now wear ONE PIECE suits only now! lol!
Hey, i want in on the secret!!!
Oneanj, ask Kim!
Thanks Meg, you know mama brug just opens her blooms all day and night so I.m a little thrown off, Clemen
So sorry Clemen, thought you knew they bloom at night. Both Dats and Brugs are night bloomers.
My apologies...
Clem,
Mama brug may be so strong ( and have good genes) she can stay open day and night. But baby brug is still a baby, though a baby that is blooming. So it could be putting a lot of energy into that bloom. I would give it some good nutrients and it should be okay.
Troublemaker, me???? Nite, sweetie. Peg
What secret : } I'm just getting back in....
okay... Kim... WHAT THE SECRET?! tee hee!
dunno
PEG, baby brug (the prize) belongs to mama brug, Pink beauty is blooming now and throwing me off, never experiemce that before, mama brugs buds open all day and night! Clemen
Guys, Kim knows, hee, hee, maybe she is the trouble maker now! Clem
hmmmm. but I wanna know!!! lol!
the quiet one makes no trouble.
lol.... hmmm I though it was the quite one was always creating trouble ? :o)
WELL... for once in my life... this REBECCA ANNE... did NOT do it.... I'd say go ask Peg.. if she didn't do it.. ask meg.. no? ask merpeg.. since they are all related.. maybe one of them will own up to the truth!!... cause peck.. beck.. and Rebecaa Anne.. is innocent.....wheeeeeee..lol I mean.. anyone that goes around in an invisable swimsuit???
NOW SECRETS???? Go ahead and shoot me now Clem.... I have the hardeset time when someone so rudely mentions a secret.. and doesn't tell...am I laying the guilt trip on thick enough??? hehe... I think the brugs close some in the daytime.. am I right on my reading at least??
Peg... I told you Bonnie will never find all her marbles...LOL I always lost my carkeys.. even right under my nose... still couldn't find them.. now we just leave them in the car!! and TG.. we are in the country.. we don't even lock our house at night... ahhhhh the good ol life
yeah Kimbob... I hope this will be my year to finally see blooms!!. I have a pretty yard in the spring.. but not in the summer. That is what I am working towards... At least a 3 season yard!!
maybe troublemaker is heavenscape, hee, hee, or Aunt b, or Oneanj, BECK, OR MEG, oR kimboB, OR KIM of Pa, or Santeelady, or Datzu, or Audrey, OMG who else, or is it me, hahahahahahah, night nght everyone, Clemen
to be continued...zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Peg meg, mama brugs honest does not close during the day!
Maybe she is out of this world, hahaha
Clem...
Even though baby brug is still attached to mama, that one stem may be really using up a lot of its power to bloom. Besides, you stay up all night too, sometimes, so maybe it just wants to be up with you. :)).. I would not worry, just make sure the whole plant is getting enough to eat and drink...
But their heritage is night-blooming... and there are a lot of old stories about sleeping under them and some of the old stories even give them mystical powers...even in Greek mythology they are talked about. And many of the Indian tribes use them as "medicine" or as part of their religious ceremonies. So we may be newbie bruggies, but the brugs are not new!
Meg you always learn something new, mama brug is unique alright! Night night sweetie, love ya, Clemen
Humph!! See how the lil secret keepers.. just say they are going to bed.. aka... the zzzzzzzzzzzz's... yeah.. right.. they are plotting something!! and I wanna KNOW!!..lol
I know I have seen the brugs flower last in the daytime too.. at least in TX they do.. How many days do each bloom last??
anjl... it takes quite a quiet person to be KIM
OK.. I am going to bed too....zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
( wonder what would happen if I pop back in here real quiet like...) hehe
NITE hotties!!
lol becky ! I too am wondering what those plotters are up to! slepping? I dont think so! tee hee!