7-8" cuttings were sent to me last October, stuck in pots inside for winter, then put in ground around April. Buds about to open, the 2 biggest branches are about 7 feet tall! Let's see your Brug props!

I've had Brug cuttings start to Y and set on buds only after a few months from rooting - just feed the bajeebers out of them ... I use1.5 tbs per gallon stuff to rooted cuttings in soil 2 months or older and 2 tbs per gallon on mature, been in the ground plants once a week - I do not think it's possible to over feed a brug.

I always find it amusing to see a brug flower almost as big as the plant.

How cute! My cuttings came from older, established plants, so their ontological maturity hurdle was already jumped.

My buds showed up about 2 weeks after I put a couple bananas at the base. Worked as well as it does for roses.

Excitement! Yes, these are so much bigger than the plain white ones I had before!

So pretty! They are actually at their best, (datura metal too) at night .. go out tonight night with a flashlight and flash camera. If you can set your flash to 50% do that. This picture is from 7 years ago taken around midnight.

Gorgeous! Looks like you have a few diff colors.

They were open wide first thing this morning but morning routine went unexpectedly and there went my minute that it would have taken to get a pic & not be late for work.

They are actually night bloomers ... years ago I had a whole forest of brugs then other plants caught my interest. I'm getting back into brugs now that I can plant things in the ground.

Here's how I take night pictures. The autofocus on your camera needs light to focus - it doesn't have to be bright .. just enough for the infra red to see it. I just shine the flashlight on whatever I want to take a picture of, let the autofocus do its thing. Once it has the focus I move the flashlight away then take the picture - with flash of course. If you can't control the strength of the flash on your camera and the pictures lack detail then back up a bit so it scatters more. For light colored or very reflective flowers I use a 50% flash .. darker colors 75% or more.

The first picture is of Pink Perfektion and the 2nd Frosty Pink.

Those are fabulous! Mine's a mutt.



04/12/2023 ETA: Subsequently ID'd as suaveolens.

Lol .. thanks .. I like your mutt though!

Me too, TY! The bar is about 3 ft. high.

Oh, what a fun and amazing plant, Both your plants are beautiful. Oh lord help me, I am a plant nymph. I want them all. Lovely plant ladies.

Thanks Laurie! They are gorgeous.

The tallest brug I've ever grown got to about 8 feet - I've never really like the fragrance of brugs or datura .. how about you Tiffany, do you like their fragrance?

Tiffany, can you please explain more about putting bananas at the base of the plant, works just like the same as with roses. What works?

Laurie, are they root-hardy where you are also? As soon as there's a frost here, everything above ground will be zapped, but will grow back when it warms up again the next spring/summer. The biggest herbaceous perennial I've ever had in my landscape.

Anne, I was hoping to get a better chance to sniff a bloom before answering that but I never did. They were way above my head & then I had to move that plant to get my new greenhouse into its' final spot. That caused some wilting & it may not have a chance to make more before 1st frost, will have to keep an eye on plant & weather. The plain white ones I smelled were too similar to Lemon Pledge for my taste, but I'm told these peachy ones have a diff scent.

Colleen, the banana thing is just like it sounds, scratch a little dirt back somewhere near the base of the plant, place whole banana or, more often for me, just the peels, then cover again. When it's really hot during summer I don't usually bother covering. Within a few hours, it will be shriveled/melted, looking like part of the mulch. The nutrients in the banana are the ones needed to encourage blooms on roses, and apparently also on Brugs, assuming it's the right time of year & conditions are otherwise not prohibitive of blooming and all that's missing is some nutrients in the soil.

Tiffany for the info about the bananas. I don't have any brugs right now (someday maybe) but I do have a few roses that I'm going to try that on.

I just found this thread, a bit late! I was sent brug cuttings last year. They were in bad shape due to sitting nearly a week in the post office. I planted them up and they have all survived and grown well in the greenhouse. One is about 4 ft tall. None have made a Y. Do you pinch them or do they do it naturally? I also planted one outdoors at our arizona place. It is doing very well so far, but probably will get killed by frost. I was surprised that a cutting could bloom in a year! I just hope mine will bloom next year.

Karen, pinching will not produce a Y. Here is a link to a page I made about the Brugmansia Y - it also shows other indicators of blooming:

http://www.xeramtheum.com/myst...

Also, for those of you who have them in the ground, once a frost knocks them down do NOT cut them back unless you are absolutely 120% sure that the branch is completely dead. Otherwise you risk having the roots send out new shoots which will be definitely killed during the next freeze. When I was growing them in the ground I'd cut the dead branches back around March.

I've been continuing to propagate these angel trumpets and the past few winters, have been doing a lazy but very effective thing of chopping them into very big chunks and sticking them in water until it's safe to take back outside.

Here are a few of this years' additions to the landscape that started as cuttings in October. I can leave the roots in the ground and they grow back the following spring. But for those who live where they can't survive that way, can still have ground plants and know it's not necessary to do more than what I did. No need to dig up big dirty roots and try to make happy in a pot. You could chop them off at the base and stick in a big jug of water until you can put back in the ground in the spring.


The trunk on this one is getting ready to explode with new branches.



How are other people's Brug props going?

All of the stems that I stuck in big jugs of water in the fall are still alive, with tons of roots & some good foliage. That's about 8 more Brugs to add to my yard this year. Except for being so thirsty, I love these plants so much!

Anyone else have any Brug prop tales?