this is my supposed to be brugmansia sanguinea but doubt it is i know it is a bit pale but i been growing it inside under a flourescent light just in case it may be.
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My sangs have scalloped leaves but I've never had a bloom so I don't know for sure that they are sangs either. Just the fact that I've had them for a few years and they've never bloomed makes me believe that they are. lol In previous years at least the foliage has grown well but this year they've looked miserable.
Karyn
Doesn't look like any sang I've ever seen either. If you bought seeds on eBay, it's a good bet that you will not get the right seeds for sangs or arborea. I know one guy that tried several times to get the real deal on arborea seeds, and never did.
Mike it looks identical to my arboreas under lights, but many other brugs look similar, so that's not saying much. Doesn't look like the sang seedlings I remember either. Sorry.
it was a plant from a common seed catalouge i did not think it would be a sang but gave it a shot because i donot do good with seeds from brugs only have one seedling brug hat i grew from seed. prob end up with a pink thats what they usually send instead of sang not sure why will have t get a better source to try to get a plant want to try to graft it to another brug to seeif i can get one to grow here in fla
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The sangs I grew out from seeds were from J.L. Hudson, but their online catalog currently lists only B. suaveolens. I grew some orange and some red - both had fuzzy leaves and stems and like Karyn's, they had scalloped leaves. They never looked much like other brug seedlings I was growing.
Patrick
Brug Moderator
USDA Zone 8b
Heat Zone 3
Sunset Zone 5
SeaTac, WA...one cool place
Since this does not seem to be a b. sanquinea plant, does anyone have a picture of what it should look like? Seems we might have had some chat about them before. Would be interesting to see what one really looks like.
I wish I did have a picture...that might mean that I had success in growing one. LOL! Patrick had pictures on here before. I just don't remember if they were on a thread or in his album.
You're right, Shirley, Patrick has pics of sang plants and flowers in his album. Knew they were somewhere but was too lazy to look. I see the leaves are quite different. With a stretch of the imagination a bit more like a fat maple leaf...well not sure that's quite right either.
I bought one from a popular catalog one year that said it was red. They even had the picture of a sanguinea. When I got it the leaves were not like the ones I had grown out from seed. The seedlings were more fuzzy and darker green. The plant I bought bloomed pink and looked like a frost pink - boy was I mad- no wonder it rooted so easily when a piece broke off. I lost the others during the hurricane when I lived in LA. They were doing good till then cuz I kept them in the house where is was cool and less humid by a bright window!
Patrick I also bought a pack of Sanguinea seeds from the JL Hudson catalog a few years ago. I bought more from another vendor last year. I'm not sure if those are still alive or not but the ones from Hudson are still growing. They didn't look very good this year though. Probably because of the intense heat we had all summer. I have yet to go through my container plants but I might finally give up on the sangs. I don't believe I'll ever get flowers from them.
Karyn
Ok I finally found that picture of my sad little flat of sang seeds. They have a distinctive leaf shape that is sort of like an oak leaf to me.
Here is another link to some seedling leaves: http://tinyurl.com/ys7lke
Tom H.
Marysville, WA Zone 8a
Edited to insert shorter URL
RA
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My in-ground, should-be-red, sang has buds, but will they open before it freezes? Note the characteristic fuzziness of the plant parts. The last pic shows what more mature leaves look like on this particular sang. My orange-flowered sangs have a different leaf shape.
Patrick
Brug Moderator
USDA Zone 8b
Heat Zone 3
Sunset Zone 5
SeaTac, WA...one cool place
Patrick where did you get your red sang from? I've really been looking hard for an all-red sang, but I haven't found any named ones available in the US, and I also couldn't find a seed source that I thought I could trust for true reds.
If I was you I think I would slap together some 1x2's and visqueen for when we get our first freezes here in a week or two. Looks to me like that bud is gonna make it just long enough to laugh at you the day before it opens and then kick the bucket.
Patrick that's what the foliage looks like on my sangs, what's left of it anyway. I think mine are a red variety, not sure though. How exciting, a bud! I hope it opens before the temps drop.
Karyn
Tom, I believe my "red" sang is supposed to be 'Inca Queen'. Carol (pink petunia) gave me the seeds 3 years ago & I'm pretty sure they came from J.L. Hudson. It looks like they've quite carrying sang seeds.
How "red" it will be remains to be seen. I've had a few blooms on my orange sangs, but so far, nary a red one. I don't think I'll go to the effort of building a makeshift greenhouse around the brug...and there's a good chance I'll be away from home when the first freeze hits.
Either she blooms or not...when she freezes, she's done for the year. No more winter storage for her! We'll see what she puts out next year.
Patrick
Brug Moderator
USDA Zone 8b
Heat Zone 3
Sunset Zone 5
SeaTac, WA...one cool place
Well if it hasn't all turned to mush by the trade in a couple weeks maybe you can hack me off a piece so I can practice some of my newfangled rooting techniques on something really hard to root like that. (But definately not if there is still a chance of getting it to bloom for you).
well this one ended up being a white. i did not take a pic of it to see if there was a clue of what type it may be. if it blooms again i will take a pic. the scent is very subtle and changed one day it smelled like vanilla and the next baby powder than the next a mix of the two vanilla baby powder. so not real sure i will keep this one. it did bloom inside so i may set it outside in a bigger pot and let it survive if it wants to. i dought ouitside in warmer conditions that it will change color knowing my luck they sent me a white sauve.
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Well at least you know now Mike.
You know, some arboreas will smell like vanilla. Does yours have hairy leaves? Arboreas will also have a shorter flower with a longer green calyx (in relation to the flower's corolla tube).
Suav's will usually have fused stamens that set them apart from other brugs. Looking forward to your pictures, get some good ones.
I bought some seeds from www.tradewindsfruit.com and they look just like the sang seedlings you guys are growing. I am at work right now but will post a pic when I get home. They were fairly inexpensive too. I paid I think it's $2.00 for a packet which has like 8 seeds per pack.
i have tried seeds several times but i donot have luck with seeds fro some reason i did get one to sprout but it died in less than a week after it sprouted was wanting to buy a plant for my grafting experiments o well guess i will wait might try seed another time just not right now
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