I found a bud on my old NOID pink today! THis is the plant that the rotten dog chewed up, and I moved it just outside my bedroom window. The room should smell wonderful in a couple of weeks! I can hardly wait.

Yay!! I'm glad you are at least going to have a bloom. This has been a crazy year for brug weather.

ChSam (Shirley Morr)
Chariton, Iowa
Zone 5

I actually have 2 buds on my NOID pink, and I think I have about 6 coming on my Ecuador Pink! I may yet smell brug this season!

my unknown pink is finally blooming










Njoy


SE TX Z8b
Coastal~Tyler Co TX

Oh, Joy, that is beautiful! Does it have a fragrence? It is nice to see you posting. I have missed you.

I have about a dozen with Ys. It will be weeks before I see any flowers. My Vigna caracalla is blooming so I am happy to have something good to smell & it has a pod! Maybe it will give the Brugs ideas.

Linda
Western MD
Zone 5b

I had to go look up Vigna caracalla, very pretty. I think I will order some seed for one. I'm looking at my brugs with thoughts of what I will do to them before winter storage. I usually frost the end of sept. so it's not to early to think about it. My Pink Beauty is absolutely spectacular this year, big and bold and here I am...admire me. Twin trunks, I'm thinking of making it one, easier to get in the bulkhead. I'm wondering how thick a trunk I can root. This is my favorite brug, I'd love to pass on the 2nd trunk.


Sally
Zone 5b
heat zone 4
Enfield Connecticut



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Sally, I will probably have a few extra seeds I can share with you. They are on the expensive side to buy. I got 2 pods last year from one plant & the plants were just started last spring. They have really taken off this year & I have 1 pod already & both of them have lots of buds so I'm hoping for more seeds These are definitely Vigna caracalla. Phaseolus caracalla looks the same but has no scent & people sometimes mix them up.

You can root any size trunk. Diameter & length doesn't matter. I had a couple 5' basals in water all winter (until the heater went off & froze them).

Linda
Western MD
Zone 5b

thanks, I would love a couple of seed. The Pink Beauty trunks are around 3 inches in diameter, I'm going to try to root one. I have rooted trunks before, just nothing this thick.


Sally
Zone 5b
heat zone 4
Enfield Connecticut



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Sally, my experience with Pink Beauty is she does everything in a big way. I don't think you should have any problem rooting a large cutting.

Patrick
USDA Zone 8b
Heat Zone 3
Sunset Zone 5
SeaTac, WA...one cool place

Sally, I root trunk cuttings a lot and have never had a problem with them. Matter of fact, I am looking out my window at Canary Bird (trunk cutting from last fall that someone had asked for and never came to get) that I planted inground this past Spring. I had left it in water all winter in my garage and she was nicely rooted for planting. She is one that has just finished flushing.

USDA Zone 7/8
Copper Canyon
North Central Texas

thanks everyone

Sally
Zone 5b
heat zone 4
Enfield Connecticut



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My Brugs may not have time to bloom this year. They have buds but they are tiny & cold weather will come too soon for them to finish, I'm afraid. Of course, I will be dragging anything inside that looks like it might open & hoping for some flowers. It is very pleasant to sit at the computer & smell the perfume (Brugs in the next room with the door closed). Sniff, sniff...wow!

My Vigna has over 30 bloom clusters & hopefully all 8 pods will stick & mature (I knocked one off counting). I overwinter it like the Brugs.

Linda
Western MD
Zone 5b

well, my bud has opened, but I am not smelling much. Maybe it is too high up, and my nose isn't working well. But I have about 15 more buds on it! And my Ecudor Pink has about 10 bud on it. Anyone had experience with EP? It seems that the buds are very long, and the tips of some curl. And they seem very big, and yet haven't opened yet, and I am getting very impatient!

Hi Selma, my Ecuador Pink finally took off and grew this year. It has a lot of buds and a couple have opened, but are somewhat hidden & I haven't taken measures to make them more visible. The length & shape of the calyx, like the flowers (and seed pods) themselves, are influenced by the genetic background. When we don't know the ancestry of a brug, those factors often give a clue.

I figure in about a week I should have a decent showing of blooms on many of my brugs. It has been a really frustrating brug year!

Patrick
USDA Zone 8b
Heat Zone 3
Sunset Zone 5
SeaTac, WA...one cool place

Ditto that, Patrick, VERY frustrating!!!!

USDA Zone 7/8
Copper Canyon
North Central Texas

I'm sorry your all having a frustrating year, it's been a wonderful brug year here in New England. Sadly we will frost in the next 3 weeks or so. I am looking at my brugs and making plans for who stays and who goes. The German double peach will not be wintering over this year a long with several crosses and Charles Grimaldi and Dr. Suess. Those have never done anything for me. I'm thinking my Pink Beauty/Miss Emily McKenzie cross will be cut down and rooted, I am very happy with this one. Only one flush this year but for a first blooming it was pretty nice. Smelled good too. The plant is extremely tall though so I thought I would root about 5 feet of her with the Y.
Off to work.
Sally

Sally
Zone 5b
heat zone 4
Enfield Connecticut



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Sally, it's in the genes for Pink Beauty to be a BIG GIRL! So I'm not surprised her offspring has taken after her. Even my MEM chose to grow pretty tall this year (lots of buds on her, finally....Pink Beauty, too). Your plan to shorten your plant by rooting the upper portion of a trunk will probably give you the desire results initially...but if it takes after PB in all ways, it will throw tall basal shoots in the future, once again giving you a tall plant.

Patrick
USDA Zone 8b
Heat Zone 3
Sunset Zone 5
SeaTac, WA...one cool place

Don't get me wrong here Patrick, I love the big girl. The problem is fitting her in the basement and saving the Y. I have seven foot ceilings in my basement and she and her offspring are way taller than that. I would be pleased if she flew past 9 feet again next summer.

Sally
Zone 5b
heat zone 4
Enfield Connecticut



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Sally, Dr.Seuss and Charlie G are great brugs for the heat in Texas. I have two Dr. Seuss that are inground and grow to be small trees each season after being cut back to the ground. He gives me more blooms than any other brug with the exception of Harlot (a blooming machine), and makes the nights so very fragrant. I am sorry they do not do well for you. I suppose that is why there are so many varieties ...... for all the different climates and growing conditions. I will be having my brug cutting party in November, hopefully not before then as I try to time it just before the first frost.

USDA Zone 7/8
Copper Canyon
North Central Texas

i had high hopes for Dr. Seuss and C. Grimaldi, I actually bought these two brugs, most have been trades. I have never gotten a bud. I think I will look around for Harlot, I have heard good things about her. happy Labor day.

Sally
Zone 5b
heat zone 4
Enfield Connecticut



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Harlot can be quite the "lusty lady". When she has a mind to bloom, she really goes for it. My sister grows only 2 brugs...Harlot and Daydreams - they give her quite a show on her deck. I can't imagine not having these 2 in my collection.

Patrick
USDA Zone 8b
Heat Zone 3
Sunset Zone 5
SeaTac, WA...one cool place

Two more buds have dropped off NOL and one off Daydreams ..... so discouraging.

USDA Zone 7/8
Copper Canyon
North Central Texas

Daydreams has dropped a few buds and a few of those starting to open are a bit distorted, while others are normal. She has LOTS more quickly coming along. We'll be a bit rainy tomorrow, then start moving into sunny & upper 70's - that should make my brugs quite happy.....LET THE SHOW BEGIN!!!

Patrick
USDA Zone 8b
Heat Zone 3
Sunset Zone 5
SeaTac, WA...one cool place

Ludgers Windsong has a couple 4" buds! Yay! And the anticipation starts.

Linda
Western MD
Zone 5b

Linda, you mentioned the approach of frost time - I see you're Zone 5b...how soon can you expect frost there?

Patrick
USDA Zone 8b
Heat Zone 3
Sunset Zone 5
SeaTac, WA...one cool place

Our frost date is around Oct 10. It has been cooling off fast lately so I hope it isn't early.

Linda
Western MD
Zone 5b

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Sally
Zone 5b
heat zone 4
Enfield Connecticut



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True, Sally; but I am waiting for another day or two so I can start another about my blooms!!

I'm still watching & waiting on my 4 buds. I couldn't help myself, I had to squeeze one of the big buds today.

Linda
Western MD
Zone 5b

Well, my Ecuador Pink has 6 buds with their tendrils out (so cute and curled!), and yet haven't opened all the way, or gotten color, so I am w a i t i n g.....

Sorry Sally...we got so tired of waiting for buds...and for them to DO something, we just had to go off and talk about other things.

Selma, I believe Ecuador Pink is a versicolor...don't expect to see pink coloring until a day or two after the bud unfurls.



Patrick
USDA Zone 8b
Heat Zone 3
Sunset Zone 5
SeaTac, WA...one cool place

I have tons of buds, but I am pretty sure I will frost before I see more blooms.


Sally
Zone 5b
heat zone 4
Enfield Connecticut



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Different times of blooming period for different parts of our country ..... think I will finally get some decent flushes before too long. Our first frost date is usually the middle of November or later (could be much later for me each year, and eventually just have none at all). However, with the hummers migrating so much earlier in my neck of the woods this year .....who knows????

USDA Zone 7/8
Copper Canyon
North Central Texas

THanks for the heads up, Patrick. The skirts are out in 7 of the buds, but they haven't unfurled yet. And yes, they are cream colored now. Maybe tomorrow??

Yes, maybe tomorrow....or the next day...they sometimes take their own sweet time. Some of my brugs are taking 2-3 days to unfurl. I would then expect one full day of white before they turn pink.

Patrick
USDA Zone 8b
Heat Zone 3
Sunset Zone 5
SeaTac, WA...one cool place