I'm with you Mike.

Cup o water first, and wait for signs of roots. One little root, pot immediately with a good course potting soil. If no success after a week I will start in a perlite sphagnum peat mixture. The sphagnum wards off rot and disease!

I have a couple of BOB's going but I also have about 30 jars on the buffet that I change the water in daily...When I cut I put them in a liquid seaweed and rain water solution for 2 days then just to regular tap water..I pot them up if I have potting soil, pots, time and space..LOL otherwise I keep them where they are...They don't seem to mind... most of the end cuttings will hold their leaves thru the process..Makes for a pretty plant when you do pot them...
Chena

Come on you guys?? LOL I just cut and stick into soil and it grows, even roses!! LOL Who fusses over these??

karma I want some of your soil! Or perhaps just your green thumb lol. I miss Louisiana where I could just spit on something and it would grow :P. When I lived there I threw a few brug tips under the deck once and a few mos. later they were growing up through the slats!

With brug cuttings I put them in a glass with lukewarm reg tap water. I change it for sure twice a day. More if I'm home and think about it. Soon as I see nubbies and maybe one tiny root coming out, they go into potting soil mixed with perlite.

I stick cuttings of everything in jars with an aerator. I use regular tap water. I don't change it unless it looks funky but that's why I use the aerator. I don't want to have to change the water. lol I stick green cuttings in soil if it's something I want, otherwise they get tossed. I don't have the room to keep pots during the winter. The brug cuttings sit in water all throughout the winter until I can get them potted outside.
Karyn

Karma!!!!!You make me laugh.. I guess If I had a 25 ft Brug tree.. then I wouldn't worry that much about the jars on the buffet....LOLOLOL
Chena

Karmaaaaaaaaaaaa. . yer makin' me feel baaaad! LOL

karyn1

Thats good to know, Leaving them in the glass all winter. Hmmm
Very helpful for one with a thousand plants and limited space

Hi all I am a new to your little show but I have a question,in other word Please help me.I just bought a new brug,a variegated peaches and cream.Do I cut it back and root in water the same as my other brugs? Thanks Bonnie

Hey Bonnie!!!
WELCOME.. as I understand. they root better in soil than water..I don't have that one tho... There are some real experts here that can probably guide you down the right path...Best of luck !!
Chena

Chena, Thank you I am so excited to have found this group,my email addy is qualitycuat@prtcnet.com,and I would be grateful for any info on the brugs I can get,I just started two years ago,and I just feed off of them,I have pale yellow,and the new one the variegated peaches and cream,I am trying to get the deep pink color,but not for the price on ebay.So Thanks for the welcome.Bonnie

Bonnie12210, Chena if right that B P&C is best rooted in soil with a little bottom heat. This one is a slow grower that loves pure shade and do not over winter it in the dormant state. This one should be grown year round with heat and light! Best of luck!!

I don't have P&C but I did cut a branch of my Maya a couple days ago. It's a fat branch that I stuck in the bucket with the other cuttings and it has already started rooting. As far as variegated brugs go that's the hardiest one I have. I only have 3 variegated varieties so there's not much material for comparison. I do keep them inside under lights over the winter.
Karyn

Thanks so much for the warm welcome,I will let you know how things go,do I need growing lights or just a lighted room for the P&C,you all are great Thank you.Just for the info I am in Laurens SC.Bonnie

I'd get a grow light. If you just have a couple plants one of the spots should work well enough. It's not only the lack of intensity but the shorter hours of daylight that are a problem with indoor plants over the winter. My lights are on timers and go on at 6 am, off at 1 pm then on again from 5-8 pm. I want the plants to get a total of about 14 hours of light. If it's a cloudy day I'll let the lights run continuously from 6 am to 8 pm.
Karyn

Okay I need help again,remember the P&C variegated cutting,well now I have been given a 4 foot plant,what do I do with that,do I keep in the house over the winter,do I cut it back,oh me oh my,last year I had to take the leaf out of the dinning room table now it looks like the table has to go.Help !!!!!Bonnie

I keep my variegated and other slower growing brugs inside and under lights throughout the winter. I feed them very infrequently, if at all while inside. When I do feed them inside it's with a diluted all purpose fertilizer.
Karyn

KarmaHT & Karyn1: Aughhh! I am SOOO jealous! "Just stick 'em in soil"; "Just leave them in water", you guys are killin' me with envy!!! (I'll be ok in a few minutes ... have to take the special medication) lol. Boy, would I like to have the green thumbs you have ... never mind, as long as you keep teaching this "dummy", I'll keep trying to grow Brugs as beautiful as yours. Thanks for all your advice, Gloria

good morning.

I have been a long time lurker on this forum and have been following your posts with much interest (got a brug and caught the 'fever' several years ago).

I root all my brugs the same way:
miracle grow potting mix (the regular kind, not the one with moisture retention) in a pot that has been 'stringed' with polypro. I then set the pot on one of those disposable tupperware style containers filled with water and a hole in the top through which I run the string. I do not water the pot at all, i just let it draw moisture from the container and make sure the container does not dry out.
I place multiple cuttings per pot (the number depends on the size of cuttings and the pot). in my greenhouse, I usually see new growth in about a week to 10 days, I repot into individual pots at that time.

greenthumbs2000

Sounds interesting! Do you have a pic of your method? I'm somewhat "stumped" on the string thingie! lol!

Mike

hope this works. i don't know how to upload just the pictures.

Here is a link that might be useful: my 'string thingie' method

As a new Brug-lover, I've always just stuck bits and pieces in slightly damp dirt and a few weeks later I had new Brug leaves on the piece.
Now that I've read so much about this Bubbler method, my dear hubby came home last night with a new Rubbermaid tub (but it's not Rubbermaid, it's some other brand but still looks the same) and a small pump--I'm sooo jazzed!

Ah, the string thing is just like a self watering wick. I used to do that with african violets. I wonder if those new fancy pots they make for those would work. It absorbs moisture through the porous inner clay pot and the outer one hold the water.

I may have to try that. All kinds of new things to try here!

That sounds kewel!!!

Chena,see if you have mail.

greenthumbs2000

Thanks for showing me! I may have to try that method at one point to see how well the cuttings will do! :)

Mike

I cut in lengths about 8"-12" place in jar of warm tap water with a dropperful of my own secret plant potion and NEVER change the water. I add a dropperful once a month and have Brugs growing in glass jars that are two years old! I keep them anywhere I have a free window, but will shade the south and west windows with a sheer curtain in the winter when the sun is too hot.

so, angelfairy, do you intend to keep your secret plant potion a secret now? :)

Greenthumbs, I like your idea. Sounds like it would give a constant moisture to the soil. Probably never too wet or too dry and the plant would take up more when it needs it. What exactly is the polypro and where to you get it? On a search for it I'm coming up with electical insulation.

wildflower, I get the polypro string in the camping section at walmart. it looks like thin white braided rope and is hollow in the middle.
i think the correct term for it is polypropolene cord.

Greenthumbs, Poly rope? I always thought I needed cotton or a braided nylon to wick. I use it the opposite way and elevate to draw bottom moisture away. Now I will have to try the poly cause I have a 900 ft role in the barn. I guess a person could adjust the wicking quantity by the type of rope????

Jim

from my experience, the wicking quantity is more determined by the level of water in the container below that the length of the string.

I have some of those huge plastic 'stuff' boxes that hold 10 1-gallon pots on top each. my strings are all pretty long but when the water level gets down to about 2 inches in the big containers, the wicking is greatly decreased.
I start out with the containers about halfway filled, when it gets low, I have my hubby help and together we lift the top off with the pots on, then I empty and clean the container and add fresh water (about every two months or so).