Green cuttings can root but they are more prone to rotting then woody cuttings. Just take some long cuttings and stick them in a small trash can. I use an air stone to keep the water circulating. It keeps the water from getting slimy. If you don't aerate the water it needs to be changed every few days. Your cuttings will probably continue to bloom inside though you might not want that. It weakens the cuttings and the smell of the blooms, although wonderful outside, can be positively nauseating in an enclosed space. I've had 5' cuttings rooting inside and when I plant them the following spring it's an instant tree. You can also cut the branches into much smaller cuttings and root them that way.
Karyn

Cutting your Brug back will also provide you with trade material..It's a great way collect different varities..
Kylie

You can cut it back or you can trim the rootball to a smaller, more manageable size pot.

Cattleya17:

Oh I know  thatÂs the issue for lots of people. (me, too.)

Another "Brug" enthusiast I met is going to take cuttings  and mean while, the pots, with the monster plants, heÂs going to throw  my hair stood on end. Told him "Save the Brugs! Save the Brugs! IÂll store them for you!"

YouÂd think they were endangered the way I was acting. (grin)

IÂm going to be pyramid stacking in my garage/storage area.

IÂm also going to try Georgia_on_my_mindÂs bubbler idea for cuttings, too. Take a look at that posting. It's full of photos and step by step instructions on what she did and what was successful and what wasn't. It's a wonderful post.

Good luck and best wishes

Dweeb

I decided that I'm also going to allow a bunch of brugs to die over the winter. I'll take cuttings but I'm not going to bother digging them up. All the ones that I planted in the ground were from cuttings of plants that I have growing in containers. I just hope I don't have a change of heart at the end of Oct and start frantically digging them out of the ground. lol

You sound like me Karyn

Karyn: Can you REALLY say goodbye to those poor little Brugs that you know are going to freeze to death? LOL!!! Gloria

Oh Karen  LOL.

Here I go. . . "Save the Brugs! Save the Brugs!" Gonna break out my T-shirt that says that. (grin)

The ones in the ground are just too much to dig up and they won't survive our winters, besides that they are so easy to grow from cuttings. So yes they are going to perish in my yard : ( Now I do dig up all my tropical passion vines and my plumerias.
Karyn

Karen:

I wish I had better luck with cuttings. Mine seem to turn to mush. I've lost 3 cuttings thus far.

That's why I'm going to try a bubbler (bucket 'o brugs). Mean time, because I have such a black thumb, I'm going to bring them all in.

BTW - glad to hear you can grow plumeria. Saw that at another "Brug" enthusiast's house - got the impression those are way out of my league.

I always use an air stone when I root cuttings in water, any cuttings, not just brugs. I hate slimy water and the aeration keeps that from happening.
Karyn

Just teasin' about freezin', Karyn. BTW, want to use air stone/bubbler method this year for my cuttings. Are these the same aerators used in fish tanks that places like Walmart sell? I'm also thinking of only letting cuttings stay in water until I see nubbies and then plant. This year (first time) I let them root and I think they were not as strong during planting as they could have been. What do you think?

Karen1, I am a newbie to brugs this year too.I have two that are blooming.Are we supposed to take cuttings from the woody part that is about an inch thick in my case?

They are the aquarium air stones and an inexpensive pump. You should be able to get both the pump and stone for under $10. I've planted them when they've been rooting for months (I'm lazy) and when they first show nubbies and haven't had a problem with either. With the ones that have been sitting in the bucket for an extended time I often end up breaking some roots getting them out. When that happens I trim back some of the foliage when I plant them. I'm not sure if that's necessary but I figure when you root prune you also remove a corresponding amount of foliage and it's sort of the same thing.

Nucci any cuttings can be rooted but the woody older cuttings are less prone to rot and I think root faster.
Karyn

TO CUT OR NOT TO CUT!!!! Yes Karyn and Ruth Ann.. There is that OH %$#*.. What was I thinking panic...LOL and now that I did frantically go cut them where do I put them...Passi's seem to take up so much less space....DH is already doggin me about Where is everything going THIS year!!! Of course I am deciding just what furniture we can live without...LOL.. Mine (I think..LOL) are staying out and I will take a few cuttings...Once they root I can put them under the house..
Chena

LOL Chena - just imagining the conversation.

"We don't need that Chippendale honey"

I was wondering what DH's response would be if I asked him to use the computer over THERE, on the end table (grin). "Honey, I need your desk for a grow bench." (snicker)