Cinderella Import

Picture of Cinderella right before hurricane Ike. She was pulled out of ground, stripped of blooms & foliage from the winds off Ike. I've replanted her and she appears to be making a fast come back.....foliage is starting to peek out again.

Cinderella, when she arrived in New Orleans from Germany at the first part of the year, sometime in April, was a cutting of about one foot long, or a little longer. Very fast to root, and seemed to love our hot & humid climate. Right before Ike she was about 5 to 6 ft. tall looking like a small tree, and "tree" top was heavy with small buds.

What I like most about Cinderella other than she is a very hardy brug, is her fragrance. The first bloom that opened filled the evening air with the most exotic fragrance I've ever smelled! You'll want to grow her near an out-door living area.

Cinderella's color is a beautiful hot pink that appears to have a mother-of-pearl overlay. She is really a pleasure to grow!

Picture of Ruby Lady German import.

On first day of opening R.L.'s blooms were all white with a molten pink splash turning all pink second day. With her molted-look she was a number one show-stopper.....all that seen her could not stop talking about this beauty.

Those are very pretty. Thanks for showing the pictures. Linda

Thanks Linda!

Another picture of Ruby Lady.

cannagirl, Do you have a side view of Cinderella? From whom did you buy the cutting of Cinderella? Any difficulties?

Hope you made it through the hurricanes okay! Your brugs are both gorgeous, you have done a great job with them :) I love the color on Ruby Lady and how the calyx covers the corolla on the flower. She has such an unusual shape too- Sweeeet!

Hi Betty, Sorry but no side view. Was planning on taking more pictures but had to leave early to evacuate patients from area. LOL, The ONLY difficulties I've had growing Cindererella has been dealing with her damage from hurricanes.....and she was even a trouper then. A very hardy brug to grow.

Cinderella is imported from Monika in Germany. I think Alice may have imported her and might have her for sale at this time. She is still in quarantine for me.

Thanks Angel! Ruby lady does have a very different look that I really love.....she is just as pretty all pink the next day with more 1st day molten pink blooms mixed in with the all pink.

Those are GORGEOUS! Cinderella! and Ruby Lady! I LOVE THEM... that ol hurricane giving you trouble with such beautiful lovelies from afar... just isn't right!

Those are just beautiful!
So glad they made it through Ike and making a good come back!

Karen

Dollie your brugs are beautiful!

AuntB, Karen, & Elva thanks for your comments. The German imports have been a joy to watch grow & produce those beautiful blooms.


Picture of Lovey Lady

Fandango is a double peach, but I'm told because of the 100 degree heat when Fandango was in bloom it's color had a yellow tone. I'm looking forward to Fandango's winter blooms here, but even the yellow blooms are very pretty.

WOW WOW WOW!

I love that Fandango! It looks great in yellow. I hope you keep sharing photos of all your German babies as they develop.
Lenette

Very nice Dollie, i am so glad your imports are doing so well for you. Not one of mine bloomed this summer. They have all grown very well, but not a flower yet. Guess I will have to wait for next year.

Lol, Teresa that is just what I said when these beauties started blooming.

Lenette, Have several more German imports with a few tiny buds about to bloom. Will post photos as they bloom out. Waiting anxiously and praying no more interruptions by another hurricane. We're in our hurricane season until Nov. Keep your fingers crossed for me :)

Brenda, I'm sorry about your brugs not blooming this yr. Knowing how you love and enjoy your brugs this must have been a big disappointment. Do you grow your imports in a GH? Mine bloom all yr. around but I think it's because our climates are so different. Inside my GH I keep the temp at 70 degrees in the winter months. In the summer months the imports grow under a shade cloth. Also, I don't know where you purchase your imports from, but try importing from Monika. Not to give anyone a negative, but I think alot depends on who you purchase from. Monika sends only BIG, healthy cuttings and she always sends me more than one cutting of the same brug, if she has enough in stock. It cost too much money importing to the U.S., or for my budget this is the case. So I only import from a very trusted grower and someone who is very knowledgeable in brugmansia growing, and for me that is Monika.

Another thought, GordonHawk lives in NY and has some of the most beautiful blooms growing on a roof top!! I don't know what product he uses to feed his plants with, but he never seems to have a shortage of blooms on any plant he grows. His rooftop looks like a tropical forest from the photos I've seen. I would email him Brenda and see what his secret is :) Good luck with your brugs and wishing you many blooms next spring.

I have had many many wonderful blooms this year, and many for the first time. i got mone late so they didn't have as much time, and my growing season is much shorter them yours. Mine is just 6 months. My back yard is full of wonderful blooms right now ans we still have a few weeks left. I only have mine in a greenhouse in the spring to give them a jump start. I like them in my yard summers and it cost wwaayyy toooo much to heat a greenhouse here for the winter.

I am also not growing the same typw of plants I think you are. Many of mine are Flavas, vulcanacolas, arboreas and sangs, cool climate plants. I did get 5 new double yellows, and I just have to wait. They have grown beautifully, just not to blooming size yet.

Brenda, sorry for the misunderstanding. Thought you meant you had zero blooms this summer on your imports. Last year you had sent me some beautiful photos and thought it was very strange for your brugs not to be producing blooms this year. I wondered what your problem could be this year vs. last years beautiful brug display. Again, sorry for my misunderstanding.

We don't have much of a winter here thankfully, or I couldn' t afford the heating cost either. We may have an early & long winter this yr. The nights have already been around 59 degrees. Already too cold for me :)

I would LOVE to grow some of your cool climate brugs. Tried growing the Red sang, but our heat was too much. Ended up sending her north to a brug buddy where she is growing beautiful. I get to enjoy the photo's :)

Holy Moly! When I saw this thread, I scanned the flower pictures and thought OMG, they are stunning. I didn't even pick up that the first one was Cinderella. I've never heard of it, but it's lovely, without question. The fragrance is the killer part. It must be fantastic! I can't imagine such a powerful fragrance produced from a single flower. WOW!!!

Teresa, the fragrance of Cinderella is so wonderful I wish that I could bottle it! Her fragrance was a very pleasant suprise. Without a doubt, I'll have her growing everywhere on my landscape thats legal with the Dept. of Ag. this coming spring.

Dollie, I don't understand what you mean by "landscape thats legal with the Dept. of Ag.", is there a law down there on brugs in your private yard? Or does it have to do with a license you must have because they were imported? I wish they would make an air freshener with a brug scent... that would be lovely.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture requires you to obtain a permit before you can import any plant and you will need to keep in quarantine for a period of two years. In this time period you can't sell, trade, or give away any import. The imported brugs have to be 10 ft. away from any other plant, with the exception of trees. This spring when I plant Cinderella her location can't be near any plant other than imports or trees. A U.S. Dept. of Ag.Inspector makes a suprise visit about every 3 to 4 months to the location where my imports are housed. He does a complete inspection of imports making sure this 10ft. rule is in place. Also checking for pest, diseases, & virus.

Lol, I would be one of the first to buy that air freshener! Right now I'm blending different candle scents to see if I can reproduce Cinderellas fragrance. Wish me luck!

That's interesting. Dollie. The entire Dept of Ag process AND you blending candle scents to duplicate Cinderella! ;-)

I agree Teresa! Thanks for explaining, Dollie.

~~IKE shredded my Brugs, too. And it hasn't rained here since Ike hit. I can't wait until they grow full again.

Lol Teresa, I'm about to get my sister Paula, who earns a good living making scents to work on this fragrance.

AuntB, it's been fun and very interesting hobby growing these imports. They are a joy to watch grow & bloom.

Amanda, we haven't had a drop of rain here either. Maybe we'll get a good rain soon.

cannagirl - we had one good rain yesterday morning, THANK GOD!! My water bill has been in the $90 range with no rain. What about you guys? Any rain yet?

Amanda, we got 0.25" yesterday, but we need so much more. The first rain since the tail end of August.

betty - you're right, we do. It's been so long.

Amanda, Tuesday we got a very welcome heavy rain. We could still use a couple more good soaking rains. Lol, I hate to see my water bills each month. Gets cut in half in winter months, but summer just about kills me.

Hear, hear! I concur with that!

This one is definitely one of the must have Brugmansia. Very nice to see you have this one in the States.

Erick, I agree we are very blessed to get these imports to the states. Hope to be lucky enough to get some beautiful crosses from these German imports soon.

Just want to let Cannagirl my brug cuttings arrived today and I'm busy putting them into homes. I'm using spaghnum moss and 5 of them at least. No orchid moss on hand so unless I get over to Lowe's today I'll probably root the others in water. Do I have to add anything to water for them? New at trying to root cuttings and I hope I don't lose any. Thanks again

There is no need to hope with Cinderella or other great Brugmansia like Langenbuscher Garten. You could cross those to with anything and come out with exquisite babies. I'm just glad to hear that you have one that I personally love back that way. I know without fail you will do marvelous things with Cinderella. Have you managed to get any seed pods on Cinderella of worthy size to show yet?

Samigal, Thank you for letting me know your sase brug box arrived. (Samigal is referring to my brug box give away....not my imports.) I always use distilled water to root my cuttings and had good luck using this method. Some use the air-layer method and have better luck getting nubbies/roots. I would suggest going to the ABADS & BGI websites......both have excellent information about brugmansia growing. I use these sites on a regular basis and learn something different about brug growing all the time.

Lol, Eric....I know I'll get some beautiful crosses out of Cinderella. What I meant by "hope" is getting my blooms to pollinate :) I've been growing brugs for several years and haven't got the first seed pod. Don't understand why. Not getting seed pods didn't bother me much in the past, but now that I have all these beautiful German imports I want to get some new crosses started. Any thoughts on what I might be doing wrong? I pollinate step by step to the letter using the mini movie from BGI as a reference. Read all reference materials on Abads & BGI about cross pollinating, still no luck on getting seed pods.

All my brugs are healthy, shiny green foliage, and an abundance of blooms. Alot of my imports already look like mini trees. Still, do you think I might need to add something extra to my weekly feed? Could this lack of a vitamin be the cause of no seed pods? I've never seen a thread about this and was wondering if this could be a possible cause. Any help would be appreciated.

Dollie

Beautiful brugs, Dollie. I like doubles too, but singles just seem to have so much character to me.

Have you been able to get any to set pods if you planted them in the ground? Brugmansia can not self polllinate....
Hmm, lets say you have Cinderella and Goldenes Kornett. You take the pollen from GK and put this pollen on the stigma of Cinderella. Now, if you do this before Cinderella has a chance to open and leave an anther or two from GK wedged on either side of Cinderella's stigma then you should be able to get some seeds. If you water regularly during flower formation it helps, but I'm thinking perhaps its a systemic that you are using that is perhaps interfering with you getting seeds....I could be wrong, but I've never found a Brugmansia that I couldn't get seeds to set on. Some hybrids do pose some challenges and another thing to think about is light as Brugmansia seem to set and hold seeds best when they have ample light. I've noticed that simply bring my brugmansia in from the cold in the winter can cause some pods to fall off after just two or three days inside. Humidity or the absence of moisture in the air is also detrimental to seed pod formation.

Thank you Shirley. You know, after seeing some of these single German brugs in bloom I have to agree, they do have alot of character & beauty. Ruby Lady is a true beauty and the photos just doesn't do her justice. Ruby lady is one I'm anxious to cross pollinate.

Eric, thank you! You maybe right that it's a systemic problem and I've starting to regroup, using different techniques.

Some of my imported brugs are growing under a shade cloth. The heat is too hot in Louisiana and burns foliage, if that aren't grown in filtered light. Still, they have plenty of light under the shade cloth. Other imports are housed in my GH where they get plenty of light. I water often, about every 3 to 4 days this time of year, and in summer months everyday. We have plenty of humidity in La., but in summer I still need to mist plants. It's my imports that I want to set seeds, but haven't been able to produce seen on ANY brug.

Thanks again for your advice.