Congrats akat on your brugs! Sorry I don't have advice for you on watering because my brugs stay outside, except if I have cuttings, and I do water them through the winter. Someone with expertise will give you an answer, but you can also read through some of the recent post. I think this has been discussed before.

Akat if I am not mistaken and you let a brug continue to grow...then just do not let it dry out completely and water it but not to the point where it is soaked and stays to wet. ONly brugs that you let go dormant you water once a month with about 1 cup of water.

If I had that brug you just got...I would not have potted it up in a large pot like that. It just looks like it is way to small for a big pot like that. Roots grow faster if they have less soil to work with.

Hope that helps somewhat

Lucy

Lucy, I hope I didn't mess up by using such a big pot...I always thought more soil would be better.

Got me Georgia Peach yesterday and planted her as well. I sure hope they make it, I can't wait to get them in the ground next year!

Thanks for the advice!

Kitty

Kitty just make sure that they do not have standing water or the soil to moist over the indoor winter time.

cross my fingers for ya

Lucy

Kit: A brug is a little more difficult then the easy to grow and devil's ivy or the devil's tongue you have growing there. Are those dracaenas?

Dormant means sleeping in the basement or some other cool place where it doesn't drop near freezing - then you would only water 1 cup for most brugs - unless your's is really big like I keep my Charles Grimaldi.

For at least it's first year, for a cutting you are trying to keep growing through the winter time (for that nice big rootball), keep the environment inside like outside in summer. Not too much humidity, that's not good for your house (mold, mites and such) just mist it if your air is dry.

Light fertilizing, but I wouldn't say right now while it's adjusting to the transplant, unless you have Super Thrive or a similiar Vitamin/Mineral type of feed available - this is not the same as fertilizers in general - they are very different food. You can use Super Thrive as a foliar spray to.

If you really have a good tropical environment going for them and they're showing good growth, you should fertilize like you would if it were summer. Increase the amount slooowly. Better too little then too much.

I'd say you should pot down as well - it should be easier to care for anyway. I don't mean to patronize, just in case you know this, but be extra careful transplanting as it's heavy dirt on those new tender roots. Just go slooow. Your pot is three times bigger than the size I'd of kept mine in, at that size, for the first 2-3 months (mine are all fast growers naturally - don't hear much in this area with any others, not the details anyway), I keep mine in a 2 ltr pop bottle. Yep, nothing as nice as your planter collection.

Too simulate outdoors, albeit, it only works a couple months or so, we have long winters here. I keep a little lamp near my cuttings for warmth and light but they are enclosed also. You can almost say, like in a big box. The humidity, light and the warmth are better in there. Especially when it's lined with a mirror type of material. I haven't had to use tinfoil but I would if I had to. Gaps are around for airflow, as there was only a black plastic curtain on one side, going with silver this year - that's not necessary though, as it's only 1 accessable side. I should have a fan but that's too difficult in the place I give them at first, so lots of light.

Honestly, I usually have to remove all my indoor grown new branches come late spring or so, anyway. I let more branches grow and if they grow way better, off goes the stunted/dwarfed/bonsai'd branch. You can still grow another brug off of the stunted, just trim off the top part and grow it or give it away.

You never know, even I might just do everything right this 5th winter, all through the 6 months they're indoors with me...lol. But I never really had to worry much with the hardys. And my double orange, (in the care of someone else, still has not flowered and still under 4' tall entering it's 5th winter. BONSAI'D !!! I've got to convince him to let me cut it down. OH BOY!

Happy Outcomes with all our New Babies - Sandy

Sandy,

I just looked in to read this thread and found your great info. I just started with brug cuttings from Lucy this past summer and have been trying to decide how best to winter over. Now I'm sure the best way this year is to keep them growing through the several weeks of cold we get here.

Thank you for those details, It really helped me sort out what to do.

Shirley

Congrats on your new plant.
And thanks Sandy, for the good advice. I am picking up so much reading these comments and others!