Brugs will root anywhere!

17 years ago

I posted a while back about a mysterious wilt which was affecting some of my brugs. I got rid of all the affected ones and since I had to contact J T sessions at CG I asked him and indeed, since they're distantly related to tomatoes, brugs can be infected by verticillium wilt....just something to keep in mind if you're thinking of moving to 'in ground' from containers and have had verticillium impact your tomatoes in the past.

Anyhow, I spent most of the day taking cuttings from sideshoots to root on the other side of the house. I had taken some Solid Ggold side slips earlier in the week and put them into a couple inches water in a galvanized bucket (someone said something here (?) about them rooting better there). The incipient roots had swollen and even started to elongate so I potted them up. When I poured the water out of the bucket to exchange for fresh what did I find but 2 chewed up black walnuts with the hull bits a squirrel had chewed up. My rooting area is under a walnut tree and it must have either been perfectly poised directly above or actually sittng on the edge of the bucket. If brugs will throw roots like that in a small amt of water full of walnut soln they'll root anywhere, LOL.

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givelittle_getlots
17 years ago
congrats...It is always the surprises that make our day, isn't it.

Lucy
karyn1
17 years ago
Brugs are definitely hardy but I'm surprised that anything rooted with walnuts. Maybe it's not the nuts that are toxic to other plants? I know that it's next to impossible for anything to grow near a walnut tree.

Do you know how long the tomato blight spores can last in the soil? I had a little area that I used to grow tomatoes in but they were affected by some sort of blight so I just have some annuals in there the past few years but it would be a good spot for a couple brugs. It's been about 3 years since the diseased tomatoes were in that spot.
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chena
17 years ago
Very Cool!! I am also shocked to see and sprout with black walnuts near them...LOL

Kylie
mantorvillain
Original Author
17 years ago
I didn't think to ask JT about how long the spores might stay in the soil. Our daughter/SIL live close by and when they put in a garden (in what was previously grassed area) all their tomatoes got vertidillium (or something similar). A masster gardner next to them suggested using the black plastic trick over the area for a full year to try to 'cook' the spores as she thought they could stay around for years and he had tilled the area which would have carried surface contaminants to a greater depth. I guess this doesn't really answer the 'how long' question but I would be cautious and perhaps ask JT or another horticulturist? As for me I think I'll go back to containers in that area at least for several years.......and, so far at least no more brugs have 'wilted' so I'll keep my fingers crossed.