Brug cuttings blooming-

I have 2 Brugs i took cuttings from last Fall--"Maya" and my "Rose Souvelons".
My tip cuttings did not do well, nor did any of them in the water-rooting method--even with the bubbler.....

So--I had to re-cut my cuttings and root the remaining, stubby, stem cuttings--ALL above the "Y".

Because I had no seeds to worry about yet--I kept all my cuttings under the lights on the seed rack and they thrived! Really grew nice leaves, etc...

THEN--in mid February--one of the Maya Cuttings made flower buds! WHOA!!! Never saw that before!!! It was close to opening just in time for Jills Seed Swap end of February....I "doodied" the one ready to bloom up and put it on the Gift table. "Aspenthomas" chose it as hers--and the bloom opened up 3 days later.
I also gave one to "Chantelle"--a good-sized, pronged, leafed out, rooted cutting--and to my, and her amazement--it put out a bloom in no time flat! She posted a picture of it. Now I have one of the Rose Souvelons cuttings with one, beautiful bloom on it. There is another rooted cutting with 2 buds forming.....
What gives?????? I have NEVER had a small cutting bloom! Maybe it is because I did keep them under the lights?????

What do you all have to say?????

Here's the Rose Souvelons, which I still have plenty of rooted cuttings of, and will take them to Holly's Plant Swap in PA in mid-May. I think the R.S. Brug is unique as the blooms have a really short calyx and they do not hang down--but sit at a 45-90 degree angle.

Here is a close-up of the Rose Souvelons Brug bloom. I love the "puffiness" of it and the unusual striation inside each petal....
The scent is very nice too! last evening, my whole kitchen was filled with it from just that one bloom!

Here's the "Maya" cutting "Chantelle" got. TWO blooms yet!!!!

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Wild, huh? I had several short cuttings blooming in the greenhouse this winter. One had 5 blooms. I did notice some oddities: shorter calyces, paler colors, shorter tendrils, some other deformities. Cuttings taken above the "Y" will bloom earlier. New growth continues to produce "Y"s and buds.

This is a photo of Majestic Belle. The other bloom is on the other side of the cutting.

amazing when you have blooms bigger than the entire plant!

Lol int that the truth...:) My jamican yellow cutting is blooming too..Just one...Lol

I was surprised I got that many blooms at once on such a small plant, but Bernstein was even smaller when I got a bloom off him. He's in a 4X4X5" pot.

OK! Now I have a question.......

Do any of you feel that having a cutting bloom so early in any way takes away the hardiness of it? How about the bloom flushes......Is a seedling blooming considered a baby "flush"?

Will it hinder the growth of the cutting once planted outside? Like--a set-back?

Just pondering---a la Andy Rooney......

Gita

I can't get over cuttings blooming in the first place.. I am just happy getting leaves on them! How do you do it?

Lhasa--

All I can think of is that I kept the cuttings under the lights on the shelves--my set-up that i would, normally, use for seedlings....
As I had NO seedlings then--I think they benefited from the light....

Now--the seedlings are priority--as they are all sprouting--and I am keeping the Brugs by my East exposure door w/window and have a regular, 100watt light shining on them most of the day. Better than nothing!

I have only had my seedling light set-up for 2 years now. Good use of the lights off-season! Will use it again!

Gita

Mine are outside in a greenhouse, but all you really need is a cutting made from above the "Y". I did give all my Brugs some fertilizer this winter which is something I had not done before.

This is a shot of a brug cutting that a neighbor gave me last year before we left Fla. to go north for the summer. It was one foot tall when we left and now it is very tall and covered with blooms. I took this photo this morning. Sadly, some critter had broken off a branch that had 6 small bloom pods on it. It was lying on the ground and I couldn't just throw it away, so I removed most of the large leaves and stuck it in a vase of water. I'm thinking it will turn mushy and rot and the little blooms won't do anything. I know I should just toss it, but it is so hard to do that.

Donnie,
You can get that cutting to root. This time of year, it shouldn't be all that difficult. Just remove all but the small leaves, as well as all the buds. Place the cutting in 2" - 4" of water to which you have added about 1/2 tsp of hydrogen peroxide. Move the cutting to a bright location out of direct sunlight. In a few days, that part of the cutting that is under water will produce white nubs. New roots will emerge from those nubs. You can plant the cutting in a small 4" pot at the nub stage or wait until you have small roots.

Thanks, Betty. I sure will find it hard to pull those buds off! LOL!

I think my mistake with the last cuttings I tried to do in water was not adding the hydrogen peroxide. I'll go do that now! My DH will kill me, however, because we will be driving up to NH for the summer soon and our car is way too full of my plants already! Thank you again for the good advice!

Donnie--

I have sais this before--but i think the Brugs root "cleaner" if you just stick them in a pot of Soil Mix--ALL the way to the bottom. Using some Root Tone helps....

Any time I have tried rooting in water--they always get soft and rotten--and I DO clean the containers before I use them....And i DID use the bubblers and the H2o2.....

Gita