Re: Brugmansia & Cannas?
- Subject: Re: Brugmansia & Cannas?
- From: J*@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 06:37:00 EDT
I got quite a few cuttings this year and they all are setting buds..Im in
zone 5 and this is my first year growing brugs.....I gave the plants a
20/20/20 fertilizer by just sprinkling the dry fertilizer on the dirt adn
watering it in..I thought at first it would brun the roots since I keep most
of my brugs in pots....the plants thrived on it...and when I got buds coming
I changed to a bloombuster type fertilizer..I did the epsom salts once but
when I greened up the leaves with the dry fertilizer I didnt have to do that
again.....Brugs are huge feeders..more then Ive ever seen for any other plant
Ive ever had...Judy
>
> Wonder Barbara, if you just are too far north to give them a long
> enough season to bloom? My brugs (except an old suaveolens in a pot)
> tend to start setting buds heavily a week or so ago and bloom like
> mad just before frost hits here in z7. I'm a goodish way south of
> you. If I don't get mine in the ground by first part of May, I don't
> see flowers except on suaveolens.
>
> My old suaveloens blooms all winter in my cool greenhouse and then
> sporadically all summer; the guys I put in the ground are either dug
> up and plopped in a pot in fall or from cuttings made the previous
> fall.
>
> Also have read that some plants take at least 3 years or so from
> cutting to bloom, so it may not be a function of season length of
> latitude but age of plant, too.
>
> When do you get your first frosts?
>
> Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
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