Sway, if your brugs make a Y before it's too cold, take a cutting or two from above the Y, spray it down (stem and all) like crazy with soapy water with a touch of Windex in it, and grow it in your greenhouse through the winter. Next year, it will make a shrub-shaped plant and start blooming for you right away. You should get several bloom cycles through the summer. At the very least, they will keep the spider mites off your other plants in the greenhouse! Sacrificial plants?
I usually pot the cuttings up as soon as they have a good bunch of roots, but I've had brug cuttings make buds while they're still making roots in a jar of water!
That pink one in the picture above did what yours are doing. Took a whole season to make a Y and start blooming. Then we were away on a trip in December when it finally made its first flowers so I never saw a thing from it until I think it was February. I don't like the plants when they are tall and gangly like that. I prefer the shrubby form. So I always take cuttings from above the Y (where the sub-equal leaves are) and they bloom right away.
That being said, that plant is now in my pool cage, shading a rack of orchids very nicely, since it is so tall. I had to stake it up, and it blows over into the pool if it gets too windy, but . . . it's serving a purpose and it sure is nice when it blooms.
These are two starts I got in April of 2011. The little one was Monster White, a cutting from above the Y. The other was Cherub, from below the Y. Monster was blooming by the end of July. Cherub never bloomed until the next spring.
