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Brugmansia growing?

ThedarkoneThedarkone Posts: 68
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Does anybody have any experience with growing brugmansia?

and how hard is it to root softwood cuttings?

or are softwood cuttings impossible.

i have mine tied to bamboo canes, and this morning I undid the bamboos and the plants just fell over. Will I always have to use the bamboo canes?


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  • PerkiPerki Posts: 2,527
    I've rooted Brugmansia cutting in water
  • ThedarkoneThedarkone Posts: 68
    Soft or hardwood?
  • thevictorianthevictorian Posts: 1,279
    Do you have a picture of your brugmansia?

    They are really easy from cuttings and I've rooted them in water many times. They tend to be tough stemmed plants so I don't know why yours has flopped. 
  • UffUff Posts: 3,199
    I feel certain that the garden where I volunteer has a potted one and that it's brought indoors to the greenhouse in the autumn. It's cut back in the spring every year. 
    Just to be sure I looked this up and it's most helpful.

    https://www.rhs.org.uk/plants/brugmansia/growing-guide
    SW SCOTLAND but born in Derbyshire
  • PerkiPerki Posts: 2,527
    Probably semi ripe stems were still green , I bought them off ebay a few years ago I am sure they came from Hungary or around that region wrapped in a wet paper towel , put them in a jam jar and off they went. Just cut the mother plant back they regenerate anyway. 
  • ThedarkoneThedarkone Posts: 68


    This is what one looks like after removing the cane. It just toppled over.
  • ThedarkoneThedarkone Posts: 68
    I will try cuttings then. Sounds easy.
  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,618
    Cuttings dead easy in water. When they finish flowering and come in for the winter, cut it down, and put the cuttings in water. At this time of year, I have the old ones starting to shoot, and a row of coffee jars in the kitchen window  filled with water and rooted cuttings that I took last October. I will pot them into 6 inch pots and take them into the greenhouse  , and when the roots fill those pots they go into 15 inch pots and get plenty of food and water and a sunny spot.  I would cut the top foot off that, remove all leaves except the top two, and put it in water in a warm place.
  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,618
    Four rooted cuttings of Brugmansia Angels flight ready for potting up
    The original came from a breeder in Germany and will not be able to be replaced because of brexit rules on plants 

  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,618

    I have several different doubles from here.  They were packed well and came by DPD although some I ordered were out of stock when despatch time came. I ordered the previous September for delivery in May.
     They will flower the same year from a cutting like this.



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