Good news...sort of.

Remember awhile back I asked about Brug cuttings and what to do, and you were all so very helpful? Well, here is an update, and an updated pic...of all 20 of them...lol. Now I just have to worry about wintering them over :-/

Also, I read here somewhere that there is a way to keep Brug standards. Does someone have the link for that? I cut my Brug into a standard, just not sure what else to do with it. Is this unpot it, tuck the roots into a smaller sized pot that will accomodate the roots (they are currently in a 1/2 whiskey barrel container) and store in the basement...and that's all???

Not sure what to do with all of the rooted cuttings, and the standard, please someone out here in brug world, help :-)

First pic is the standard...

Here are all of the Brug kids in their little Brug box.

I guess rooting them up was the easy part. I think that there were originally 27 or 28 cuttings that I had in water, and once I had the nubs, I potted them up...out of the originally everyone of the little guys rooted up except for 3...not sure if this is a blessing or a curse...lol.

Here is a medium sized one, you can see the roots coming out of the bottom of the cup.

Congrats I love them also................lol.....James

Do you mean overwintering a standard? Take a look through the tagged pages, located at the upper right hand side of the window under Communities. Or you can Search Forums, but I can give you a quick rundown on the info. If you have the room for it, you can transplant the standard from the whiskey barrel into a plastic pot that will accommodate the roots. If you don't lose roots, you can bring the entire plant in. There are advantages to not pruning until spring, but if you don't have the room for the entire plant, you can prune the top after transplanting. Leave the first "Y" and about 6 nodes above the "Y". If you don't want to bother with the roots, Cut the standard as close to the ground as possible. Overwinter it in a bucket filled with a few inches of water and hydrogen peroxide. If you have an aquarium pump, some tubing and an air stone, you can add a bubbler in the water to keep the water oxygenated and cleaner. In the spring, pot the standard and its new rootsystem into a new pot.

As for the little guys, they will be more sensitive to the cold than the larger plant. If you are going to keep them under lights for the winter, you can plant those that have roots coming out the bottom into a slightly larger cup. Keep the lights about 1" - 1-1/2" above the plants. Use fluorescent or grow lights. Keep soil slightly damp, but not wet. Be on the lookout for spidermites.

If you plant to overwinter in a cold basement, the plants will go dormant.

Thank you very much!

I hope I can pull all of the Brug kids through until Spring time!

I just set up my light garden, first time for me, and have my hosta seeds, and DL crossed seeds planted in flats already. I'm going to go and purchase a cheap o clothing rack, that way I can have the height that I will need for the taller tenders I'm bringing in, like the brugs, bananas, Solanoms, EE babies, etc...

Thom, Welcome to brugs, since I know you from someplace else. Hostas are doing great here, just getting ready for winter. I'm waiting on my first brug bloom now. I will learn patience somehow.

Here is a step-by-step instruction on making brug standards...
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/661617/

Your brug and baby brugs look great. Peg

Peg...

Thank you, that was the article I was looking for!

I just hope all of the brug babies do well. I have two different varieties of var. brugs. One is Peach Parfait, which may also be known as Maya, and the other is Snowbank. Snowbank was the same size as PP, and the PP grew about 4x as fast and large as the Snowbank. Snowbank is sending/has flower buds on it now :-/

Thom, I had no luck with Maya, that one really did not like me, but I'm not through trying. I don't have the var. ones yet, but I already jumped to doubles (Puppy Love and Mon Amour de Mariel). Supposedly I can leave them in the ground here, so this winter is my test. My space is just getting smaller and smaller. LOL Peg

Peg, before the first frost, take cuttings as backup in case the ones in the ground don't make it. Some hybrids are more frost tender than others and not all zone 7bs are the same.

Funny, I detect from your user ID that you grow hosta and daylilies, so do we. Seems so many people grow brugs with them. i think they work so well together since daylilies and hosta are so little work. Trust me the brugs are a lot of work.

Welcomd and good luck. If i can keep 65 brugs alive here in Northern Ny through winter I am sure you will do fine. I have only lost one in five tears.

True... not all brugs are the same.. for that matter ... not all zone 7a's are the same either.. I'm in zone 7a generally...speaking... as is mother in north Alabama... zones just speak to general extreme winter low's.. not how long they are that low. or what kind of weather is happening that low....and no relationship to summer highs.. Mother can overwinter in the ground there in her zone 7... but even if I had ground... I doubt if they would ovrer winter in the ground here... it's just too long of an ordeal for them... Gordon

This message was edited Oct 2, 2008 3:34 PM

Mothers twin sister is in Tupilo , MS.. it looks like it could be a 7 a also.. and they over winter .. uncovered there..and come back...
here's some of my Brugs I plant there in Tupilo for Velma.. LooksLike TexasPink...does well overwintering.. as well as the hot sun...Gordon

Gordonhawk----I found it interesting that your aunt lives in Tupelo, Ms. That is only about 70 miles north or Starkville. I also have Brugs coming back each year after remaining in the ground all winter. In fact, it seems that 2 clumps of them keep getting bigger, and I am going to have to donate some of them to friends. Unfortunately, a light orange colored one that I had several years ago has disappeared. I have often suspected voles-----who destroyed all my hostas, Louisiana phlox and aspidistra.

Shirleyd
Zone 7b

Shirleyd..
Disappeared...my my and I thought ..mites were a problem...but they don't make them disappear.. All I can imagine is Caddy Shack..sitting up late at night...waiting for them... it's a good thing I don't have them here..
It would be so nice to have Brugs stay outside.. but I do get another 1/2 yearof relateing to them during the time they share my living room with me.. and enjoy an occasional winter bloom
Yes.. Velma..lives now inTupilo.. I've got brugs all through the area there.. my family has been thick there in your parts.. my gggrandfather ... has a MS historic roadside marker out in FulchersCrossing... just west on Rt 12 from you..[ haveyou heard o fthat area.] ..and up through Belfontaine.. and a bunch buried in the Tombigbee national park... out by Choctaw Lake where I visit often.. It's too shady for my brugs there.. or I'd have some planted nearby there also.. No better thing to give to remember.. and it makes visiting a joy in the fall.. IF I get myself by. for my usual rounds.. looking in on resting kin...maybe I can get an orange colored brug for you..
thoes _ _ _ _ voles...
Gordon