Karyn, Your vine is beautiful! What does it smell like? It looks like you have many types of plants in your gh! I would have lots of fun poking around looking at all of your plants. I don't think I have ever seen a warty pumpkin. What is that purple leaf tree or shrub that you have in your gh? Do you water those rolled moss brug cuttings at all? Thanks for the stroll around your gh!
Joyce

I haven't watered the cuttings since I rolled them up about a month or so ago. I'm not sure what purple plant you are talking about. There's a pink/red leaf hibiscus in one of the GH's. There's also a variegated solandra maxima that has green/white and purple foliage.

Karyn, your Solandra Maxima vine is beautiful!What is the fragrance like? Is it easy to grow & flower? And the come in variegated leaves too? Wow!
Immaculate Conception, too funny! Hope you get something really special from that pod.
I would pay for a tour of you GHs!lol

Theresa

rofl @ you Karyn and your immaculate conception lol Now I just hope that it will hang on to the seedpod and bring out a miracle brug for you!
AGain, I need to quit checking on my cuttings etc every day at least once lol. Then they might start looking as great as yours.

Believe it or not, but we already have half of Dec behind us and before we know it you can find a place or new home for all those cuttings.

Thanks Karyn...here is a big hug, hoping you feel well!

Lucy

You wouldn't be able to walk in my backyard greenhouses and who knows what's going on at the farm. I haven't been up there for weeks. lol The solandra (Golden Chalice Vine) is very easy to grow but is not cold hardy. It gets huge. The one that's in bloom has branches that are about 10' long and that's after it was cut back to get it inside. I can't describe the scent it's very sweet but not perfumy (is that a word?). The standard blooms often but my variegated one has yet to get buds. The variegated vine grows just as fast and the foliage is beautiful and I believe the flowers are the same as the standard variety. They are very easy to propagate from cuttings. I have two variegated cuttings that I rooted a couple months ago. All I did was stick them in a pot of soil and put it in a baggie, no rooting hormones. I am at a complete loss as how that brug flower was pollinated. It was the only brug blooming downstairs and the only flower on the plant. As a matter of fact the only other brugs down there are the cuttings. Weird!

Wow lucky you. Mine have not bloomed and I have 6 plants. I am kind of disappointed. Some people say you have to abuse them and let them get very dry. I have tried that. Maybe next year for me.

Karyn that vine is a knockout! Dont you just love those pumpkins. I have a strange one too. I had a master gardener tell me it wouldnt come true or maybe it would but a smaller version of it. So I dont know. Wouldnt hurt to try....Love the GH Lots of plants LOL Barb

Looks like my garage, lol. I have to move about 5 pots of plants just to get to the ones behind them to water or pull leaves. I would love to go poke around in your greenhouses too, lol. Like a kid in a candy store. Ooooh whats this and oooh whats that one over there, lol. You have such neat plants. You could charge just for people to come and look at them, lol.

Karyn,

WOW! Your greenhouse has some wonderful looking plants stuffed in there. ha ha. I have never heard of the Solandra Maxima before. I did a search on the net and it sounds like a very beautiful plant.

Your brug cuttings look great also.

Your brug bloom, I'm wondering, could it have fertizied itself with the same bloom? Perhaps some of the pollen from the anthers of that bloom dropped onto the stigma and it self pollinated itself?

Thanks for sharing your photos.

~Tj~

This is crazy you posted this. I had the same thing happen. My is with my NOL. This is the first seedpod I have ever had before. The only 2 I had bloom before it were Kong and Dr. Suess but they were done before NOL ever opened up. I also like the idea of wrapping in moss and wax paper. That makes good sense. Quick fix. Im all potted up now Finally. I had to work quick or I knew I would get my tags mixed up.LOL Thanks for the pictures.
TIP: Dont plant in the walkways.You got a little carried away. LOL

You are so lucky to always have something in bloom and also to get a brug pod without even trying, lol. You should write a book about growing plants, I think you grow them all.
Shawn

Shawn that's my problem. It would be so much easier if I could just pick a few varieties and concentrate on those but I'm always seeing something new that I just have to have. There's an awful lot of plants out there. lol TJ I think the only self fertile brug is the Arborea. BTW I have a few flowers on my string of bananas and a jade that's covered in buds. I've never had flowers on either and those poor things have been so neglected that I thought they were dead. I don't think either has been watered in a year! Maybe that's what caused them to bloom??

Karyn1~What a greenhouse so full of all sorts of plants and brug cuttings.Love your Solandra Maxima vine that bloom is so cool.

Rigo

Karyn, Your vine is awesome! I brought all the plants out of the aviary for this week. Our temperatures are supposed to be in the 50's at night and 70's daily all week! Yippee!
Now if I can just get over the nasty bug and get outside to do something. LOL

Do you root anything besides brugs in the spaghnum moss and wax paper? Also, will you pot any of the cuttings up before spring? I have so many brug cuttings that need to be potted now I don't know where I will put them all.
I may have to have a big brug yard sale in the spring. LOL

Thanks for showing the flowers... Linda

I root a lot of different plants in sphagnum but only used the wax paper for the brugs and that was due to space issues. I don't have any room to pot up the cuttings so they'll stay in the moss until spring. I hope you're feeling better. At least you'll have some nice weather. It's sleeting here and I just discovered a water main break in front of my house when I went to meet Kyle's bus. It's just a coming up from the middle of the road. I called WSSC and they're coming out. I guess my water will be turned off for a while : ( I just hope they don't cut my phone lines when they tear up the road. They've cut our lines no less then 5 times over the years!

Sympathy Blooms..LOL
They were so neglected when you were in the hospital they needed to show there love..
Very cool.. I have never seen a bloom on a Jade.. The Chalice vine is NICE!! If you have an extra cutting I would love to trade ya for it... Cherub??? Don't get that...I swear Cherub is my alltime Fav Brug!! Never a disapointment with that girl...Hope the pod holds it will be fun to see if ya got something there...