Brugmansias

Duh. Out of my five brugs from last year only one has any shoots on - a mere 3" high with a free crop of mushrooms - 2 almost certainly dead, one green but still hiding, another one missing.

Puh. Don't know why I bother, not like they ever flower for me, and if they do produce a bud it falls off or gets capsid bug.

Huh. Back to ebay, I guess. My get-rich-quick scheme of selling dozens of brug cuttings at £15 a pop has hit a fatal flaw.

 

I own Goldflame and she is a beauty!! You'll love her..great scent too.

Glad Carol has helped you , she's a nice person and cares where her cuttings go. Look foward to seeing your plants flower this year

Wayne

 

Hi well my plants came today. Very pleased with them and with the correspondence I had from carol. I was not expecting them till tomorrow so was well pleased when they turned up today. Now just a question about potting them on. They are only in small pots ATM so what size pot do I go up to now? I'm assuming that they cannot go into a massive pot just yet?

 

I would pot on progressively, as their roots fill the pot. (I would knock them out of the pot, look at the roots, and then just put the pot back on if they aren't ready for potting on yet).

Sequence of pots I would use would be something like 3" / 9cm, 5" / 1L, 7" / 2L, 5L, 10L. A pot that is about a finger's width of extra space all the way around the rootball is enough. That will then fill quickly with roots, and after progressive potting on you will have a really dense rootball that can take up water and nutrients well.

 

Great advice

Wayne

 

Hiya folks

I've just potted mine on into a 5" pot. I used a mixture of JI3 and MP compost. At what point do I need to be thinking about something a bit 'richer'? Sorry if this has already been covered.

Cheers...Freddy

 

When mine go into large pots - so beyond 15L I would say - I then start mixing in 50% well rotted manure. But plenty of liquid feed may be enough without the manure perhaps?

 

Kristen, thanks for the advice. Will pot on a soon as possible then

 

Hiya folks.

As I said in my previous post, the 'Brug' is now in a 5" pot. Herewith is a pic and I would appreciate any comments as to it's condition. I've not grown these before and wouldn't want to mess it up

 

Shouldn't b long till you can pot up again!! It looks fine.if you keep under glass make sure to spray water on the underside and top of the leaves to deter the dreaded spidermite.

Other than that...enjoy.

Wayne

 

Hiya Wayne, thanks for that.
I'm trying to keep up the humidity in the greenhouse by keeping the borders and floor wet, but I'll do as you say and spray. I do notice that the leaves are slightly mottled, but it might have been like that from the start?

 

Label looks a bit tight round its waist (might just be the photo though?)

Pot on the small side?

What happened to the lower leaves? I think part of the trick is to get the leaves really lush and then they put on plenty of umph

Are you feeding it? They are greedy plants, so worth feeding it with a liquid feed at half strength every watering, or ever-other-time. Or give it some slow-release "hundreds and thousands" ... I give mine both, but only use liquid feed "when I remember", hence the slow-release too.

Mine don't normally look this good ... but here's a photo of one that IS growing well for me:

 

Thought I had lost this one to the cold & damp of last year :

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But looks like there might be some hope, so Ive repotted it & given it a good feed.

-- fingers crossed !

 

I've got a couple like that, I think the pot got far too wet in early spring (dunno if the two are related though). I've been wondering about knocking it out of its pot, getting all the compost off, and repotting with something more free draining. Does anyone think that would be a good idea?

 

I've had a few shrivelled stems also.
I put it down to die back when they are dried off in the autumn, the stem is not ripe.
If you can keep them ticking over it wont or shouldn't happen.

I dried mine off quite seriously, so expected some die back to hard wood.