WOW! That is awesome Diane! Thanks for letting us know..keep us updated! I never did get the dang matchsticks..forgot when I went to the store, remembered every time I got home, dang I forgot the matchsticks!!..A list would help, lol..always gotta have that list!!!

gave this trick a try & the leaves started yellowing.........

Matchsticks....???? Wanna let a newbie in on the trick...???

-Scott

Scott you did not see the thread about using matchsticks for blooming booster ?

Lucy

rober49, then what did you do? Take the matchsticks out? And did it help?
Well, I'm tryin' it, and we'll see what happens, eh? It's been about a week now and the brugs have leafed out again after being stripped by hail. Here's hoping!
Diane

Scott - here's the idea from a few pages ago:
My Brugs seemed slow in growing flower buds, so I tried this- I remembered a little trick that I've been using on getting my green peppers to flower for me every year- I stick those long wooden kitchen matches into the ground, head down, all around the plant...about 6 per plant, and watered well... In 1 week, most of my brugs are forming flowers! There is phosphorus in the matches, which stimulates blooms.. I love little tricks like that! Try it, it really works!
Have a great day!
kasha77

Kaha77, I followed your advice when you first told us about it and I have plenty of buds forming. Tell me, how often do you put matchsticks in? I took mine out and of course their heads were gone. Do you keep doing it and consider it to be just another fertilizer? Or do you quit once the blooms are coming?

Haase good question and another one to add..how often do you replace them?

Lucy

I'm afraid we still don't know how often you replace the matchsticks. Could you please update us on this? Thanks.

Hi Gang-
Sorry- I didn't see that this thread was still continuing... I have blooms on almost all of my brugs now- I haven't replaced the matches yet- but probably would be a good idea to do so- Back home, when I lived in NY, (zone 5) I would only use one round of matches a season, (because our growing season was so short) but here in NC, I probably could give them one more round of matches for the phosphorus.. so far, I have only used one application.. I also topped my brugs off with a 6 inch mulch of rotted horse manure, for moisture & nutrients.. By the way- you should have seen the green peppers turned red that I harvested this season, using the match head trick! they were huge! I just stuffed some for dinner tonight! YUM! Sorry if your brug yellowed from the matches, maybe you didn't water enough,, or used too many? I've never had mine burn from the matches... by the way- can you tell that I'm Italian? I'm constantly feeding everyone & everything around me! Eat!!!!! Bacco!
Cheers!
kasha77

ha ha ha ha ha ha ha Kasha. You mean the Italian's do it too?

roflmao

thanks for the added info

Hugs
Lucy

Yes Sweetie- we are food pushers- check out the girth of my Hubby!
kasha77

Kasha, thanks for chiming in. I was just reporting on my activities and then all these questions started coming in!! Anyway, I think I see some teen-intsy buds starting on Cherub, nothing yet on Heloise or Peach versicolor. Santa Rosa's buds are getting longer by the day and I expect something will pop through next week. It has about a dozen on it.
Diane

I put my matchsticks in yesterday. I hope I get some blooms before summer is gone. It has never taken this long to see bloom.