Brugmansia

Good point about putting canes in when sending plants in the post, I think if you write top on it they will purposely put it up the wrong way.

Yes I added variety and a picture in flower from last year, they start white and turn pale orange.
I had someone ask me for two and would I sell two for £15, I said yes, they said I will be round tomorrow, they never showed. Why do people do this?

I can only think they are waiting until frost is unlikely and then they will be looking, the bung it in and and chuck it brigade have yet to make a move.

 

I have sold so many daylily on eBay easy enough to do ,, either do a sale price ie sell straight away or as I used to do have a bidding war but the secret is get it to close at 7pm when everyone is at home and I tend to close on a Saturday or Sunday and state only send out Monday to Wednesday

lets us know how you get on

and back to my question, do you place in water to root ?

Spruce

 

Not getting involved with E bay, not really keen on posting stuff, heard lots of stories of people saying things haven't arrived and wanting a refund.

 

I send registered post never had a complaint or anything going missing

 

Pete

ask the question again 3rd time lucky lol

do you take the cuttings and place in water to root

 

Yes, sorry, I take cuttings from very ripe wood in October at cut back time, the soft sappy stuff just rots.
Takes about 2 months for good roots to form in deep water before potting up.

 

Question. How is everyone's Brugs going this year? Mine are meh ... a few leaves but that is it ... not sure if was our cold wet winter folowed by extreme heat. I'll get a few photos.

 

The two cuttings I couldn't get rid of ar flowering pretty well, the main plant is only growing leaves ATM.

 

Hi

the plant that Pete kindly gave me has had 4 flowers up to now with more to come about 5pm the scent appears the other two plants I got from Lagthorne plants are still in growth mode and getting huge , the 3 from Parker’s are still in small pots but have settled in, I now realise you need two year old plants at least to have lots of flowers . They will go in the frost free garage over winter , I have read you strip all the leaves off ? As part of the winter prep ? To put them to bed as such .

Spruce

 

I dry them off, I don't strip off leaves but I do prune back, as they dry the leaves start to fall naturally, having the leaves on helps to dry the rootball in a very damp time of year.
I pot on slowly as some root restriction forces them to flower earlier.
Any thing seed grown is unlikely to flower first year.
I take my cuttings from the prunings, so it's wood from high up which is already in flowering mode.

 

I have fed them ...

Pink and Unknown hiding in the Plumbago ...


... so I had Jim cut back the Plumbago ...

Pink ...


Unknown, has not flowered yet ...


Variegated, had one pale Pink one last year ... (a volunteer Balsam filling the pot) ...

 

Hurray. Brugs are waking up and regaining leaves after the horrible Summer heat ... and the Pink one has buds ...




This one I did from seed was naked a couple of weeks ago. It has never bloomed so I have hopes for this year..



I shall now go and make a water feed for them.

 

Mine are coming to an end now, gales and constant wet has rotted most of the flowers and no more coming.

 

Mine never made it out of greenhouse (I think it's rooted through bottom of pot) so still a few flowers to come .