Today, I have 2 lovely, pink Ecuador Pink blooms! They are beautiful! And the rest are starting to pink up, and get larger.

That is wonderful, Selma, I love my EP, and with the rain and cooler weather, I think I will get a pretty nice flush soon.

USDA Zone 7/8
Copper Canyon
North Central Texas

Good for you! I'm glad someone is getting flowers, I'm still waiting. It's supposed to be 85 today & tomorrow so maybe that will hurry them along a little.



Linda
Western MD
Zone 5b

I am so happy for you, enjoy them.

Sally
Zone 5b
heat zone 4
Enfield Connecticut



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It is now evening, and I just went out to do the "sniff" test, and they smell wonderful--sweeter than my NOID pink, and very subtle; I practically had to get my nose inside to smell it. But worth it!

Selma, I was outside about the same time last night. I only had to go as far as the back porch, as most of my brugs currently blooming are located near the porch. KBS is putting on the biggest show & has a really nice fragrance.

I've been casually doing a mental inventory...one that I need to commit to paper for later reference...of the brugs I feel are my most important "keepers". It's going to be hard to keep the list to a reasonable size, but this jungle look needs to change.

Ooops, there I go, getting OT again!

At this time of year, fragrance becomes noticeable by 6-to-6:30PM and gets stronger over the next few hours. I love it when the air is barely moving, so the fragrance hangs in the air.

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

Hey Patrick, I have a question, (and for any others who want to chime in). A couple of my brugs have outgrown their pots, including my blooming EP. Should I transplant them now into bigger pots, or wait? I didn't think I should transplant them just before putting them into hibernation. They have been getting watered 1-2 times a day, depending on the temperatures, and I use Miracle Grow plant food on them weekly or every 10 days, depending on how ambitious I feel! Would transpotting the EP now cause it to lose its buds? Thanks.

Selma, I imagine a transplant would go ok if you didn't disturb the roots much. I've been seeing a lot of bud drop & a change of this type could promote that to happen. I tend to agree with your gut feeling that this isn't a great time to transplant if it can be avoided. Being given some fresh new potting soil to run it roots out into is very likely to send the plant a message it should be growing, when in fact it'll soon be time to encouraged it to go dormant. I personally would wait until spring.

On a related note, I quit feeding my brugs after the last week of August this year. They had a lot of fertilizer thru the summer & I got very few blooms - they can just finish out the season on what they've had.

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

Selma, I imagine a transplant would go ok if you didn't disturb the roots much. I've been seeing a lot of bud drop & a change of this type could promote that to happen. I tend to agree with your gut feeling that this isn't a great time to transplant if it can be avoided. Being given some fresh new potting soil to run it roots out into is very likely to send the plant a message it should be growing, when in fact it'll soon be time to encouraged it to go dormant. I personally would wait until spring.

On a related note, I quit feeding my brugs after the last week of August this year. They had a lot of fertilizer thru the summer & I got very few blooms - they can just finish out the season on what they've had.

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

I agree with Patrick. Early next spring, even before you put your brugs out, would be a good time to trim the tops and roots and re-pot. Early re-potting will give the roots time to grow into the new soil and stabilize the plant for outdoor weather.

Congrats on getting blooms. It's been a very poor year for brugs in Iowa. Harlot and Maya have bloomed for me with one or two of the others having a bloom here and there.

ChSam (Shirley Morr)
Chariton, Iowa
Zone 5