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Sep 10, 2016 8:31 AM CST
Name: Elaine
Sarasota, Fl
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Hi ninni and welcome Welcome!

Brugs grow and flower year 'round here in Florida, so I'd say you can certainly keep your new plant growing and maybe even blooming through the winter. Take it indoors around the time that your night temperatures start to fall into the 40's. If you let your house get somewhat cool at night, (60's?) it will keep the plant from getting 12 ft. tall and crowding you outa there, too. By the time it warms up next spring, you'll have a nice big plant ready to bloom for you all summer. Then in September just start another cutting again.

They love heat and humidity, and indoors they need as much direct sun as you can provide, so a south window would work well. The one trouble they seem to have indoors is spider mites. Keep a spray bottle of soap solution 1/2tsp. dish soap to a quart of water, and spray the plant, being sure to hit the undersides of the leaves. It's then a good idea to rinse the plant off, so another spray bottle with plain water will accomplish this or put it in your kitchen sink or shower.

When they're outdoors, you can just spray them with the hose in dry weather to keep the spider mites away.
Elaine

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