Bubbles said:You just need to chop the brugs to a reasonable size. Every piece you cut above the "Y" will root into another plant by placing the cutting in a few inches of water. These are your backups in case your big plant freezes. You don't have to keep every little piece you trim, just a few....or one. You'd be amazed how quickly those cuttings root.
If you don't want to bother with extra brugs, just chop the top of the potted brug about a foot from the pot and toss it. You may or may not get blooms from that pot next year. Or.......if you have a place to root that top, you will have a nice standard brug plant ready to bloom for spring. And then, toss the pot, or not!
There's always someone looking for a brug cutting to trade. 
Yeah, I found out how easy they root. Earlier this summer there was a crazy branch heading off nearly parallel to the ground and I whacked it off down lower and put the top growing section in water. It started making white bumps immediately and now the jar is full of roots. I may do that, but the big one is really nice and I'd sort of like to see go in another season. All of them have buds, but I'm hoping at least to see the one that didn't bloom this year make it to a bloom. It's on the porch with the glass front. A bit warmer and a lot more light than the garage provides. It sometimes can get too warm on sunny days. I am probably going to whack away at Eternity and Adora. Eternity was the Energizer bunny as far as producing blooms this summer, so I have a couple of folks that would relieve me of any rooted cuttings.
So far I'm not seeing any damage on the plants I took out. I was mainly worried about the Epiphyllums and the Ric Rac Cactus. They are awkward inside because of their spread. That's the trouble with a plant that does well. They grow and require more space. I've accumulated a lot of plants like that. I need my thumbs to turn brown for a while. Winter may help that
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