I have two brugs in moss/cups and three in a bubblesr that have good root system and are ready for potting...Any suggestions..These are my first brugs and I want to do things right...Thanks
From Bubbler/moss to pot??
You haven't mentioned where you are keeping them. If in a cool dark basement, they will keep until spring. If you have a warm bright sunny spot indoors and can supplement with extra lighting, you can pot them up into small pots. Keep them on the dryish side of moist. Don't overwater because rot is the biggest killer especially during winter when growth slows or stops. Maybe a little spray with "The Recipe".
These will be kept inside about 70 degrees near a sliding glass door for sunlight.
bettydee,
Are you saying that if I take my newly rooted brugs that are in moss and keep them in a cooler darker place, that they will keep until spring? I really don't have a better place to keep them inside except under the kitchen counter lights & I'm afraid that they will soon get too large for this space.
Jo-Ann
Sham on you for teasing us with these beautiful cuttings. These things must grow like weeds.
When did you take these cuttings? Just curious.
I have some pink ones & some white ones that I received from 2 wonderful DGers. I potted these up around the 2nd week in November, so they're only about a month old. And every single one of them has sprouted. Not bad for my very first time! The white ones came up much faster than the pinks, which are just starting to leaf out. Thank you Makshi/Diane for all the lovely white ones and pensacolagarden/James for the pinks.
Jo-Ann
I though you were just talking about the three you still have in the bubbler. I went back and re-read your first post. Let me know if I have this right. You kept the cuttings in the bubbler until they rooted rather than just long enough to get white nubs. Then you took the rooted cuttings and placed them in the cups and filled the cups with with moss rather than with potting soil. If you don't mind my asking. Why moss? In other threads, the moss was used as a rooting medium and then the cuttings were transferred into containers with potting soil. The moss is not intended to be a potting medium, at least not for Brugs. Once the cuttings are in soil, they develop a different kind of root.
Regarding your second post: Brug enthusiasts are very resourceful people. I've seem photos os Brugs growing in the most unusual places in winter. Notice I said 'growing'. That because Brugs will continue to grow if they don't go dormant. They go dormant in a dark, cold ( below 50ºF) location. Under other conditions, Brugs will attempt to grow. Under ideal conditions, the growth will be stocky with a near normal distance between nodes. In low light levels the growth will be spindly with very long internodes. This growth is usually unable to support itself and will bend in all directions. Healthy plants are better able to spring back from a spidermite attack. It really amazes me that spidermites can find their way into a house to get to the Brugs.
The kitchen counter lights will probably not provide sufficient light. You would need at least two fluorescent lights side by side — one warm, one cool — placed about 1' from the leaves and left on about 16 hours per day.
Betty..
Havn't potted any of them yet...have three in bubbler with good roots...
I rooted two in the orchid moss and the roots on them are very visible through the cups..I was needing advice...Can the ones in the bubbler go straight to soil or is there another step...same questin for the ones in moss...do I remove moss??Sorry wasn't real clear in my prior post..I plan to set this in front of my sliding glass door for the winter...Keep house temp about 70 degrees?
The ones in the bubbler as well as those in the moss can go directly into pottiing soil. I have only rooted two cuttings in orchid moss, but ZZsbabies who has rooted most of her cuttings in moss says it's not necessary to remove the moss. She hasn't posted much this past year, but I respect her knowledge.
thank you...I will put in potting soil tomorrow evening...I'm glad you don't have to remove moss...roots are really intwined in it ...you think they should do good in front of glass door?? i'm going to plant them in 2 1/2 gallon black nursery pots..that should give them enough root room till spring?
Don't over pot!!!. 4" to 6" pots are large enough. Unless my cuttings are oversized or too thick, my cuttings go into 3-1/2" X 3-1/2" X 5" deep pots. You can get away with over potting when your Brug is growing quickly. During winter when the roots are not absorbing water as quickly, roots are more prone to rot. Brugs can handle being rootbound a lot better than being waterlogged.