Putting newly rooted Brugmansia in dormancy in January?
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My Roses are not Breaking Dormancy. Help.
Comments (5)Did you fertilize? I hit my roses with 15-30-15 fertilizer than they all woke up like crazy. Now I will switch to Virgo fertilizer hereon. I am getting some very strong breakout from root/graft areas. my plants are 10-yr old. I also have two bare roots that I planted a week ago, they were very weak when I got them. I hope they breakout too....See MoreDormancy/Storage Q&A with Mr. CB
Comments (32)Wow, 5-6 months of cool period and look at them after waking up. They look like they have been 'rejuvinated' and are so eager to grow. Last year was my first time to put my collection to rest inside the garage (potted). If I am not mistaken, the cool period was like 4-5 months and I was getting scared that it would affect them. Apparently, it did not. They woke up, bloomed nicely and grew vigorously this year. One thing is common between Dizzy's Hippies and mine. The Hippis are not unpotted or stored bareroot. Keeping the roots from drying out in this cool period must be really beneficial for them....See MoreShould I prune a newly rooted rose?
Comments (4)If it's going into an attached garage, just throw it out there. You'll find elaborate instructions for getting plants ready to change circumstances, but I've never had anything bothered by moving that isn't a ficus. Plants go in, out, into below freezing temperatures, into hot, dry houses - they don't care. Now the coldest my garage ever gets, is low 20's F. And that's with -20°F and serious wind chill. Below freezing is relatively normal, but it has a hard time getting much colder than that. The roses in the garage have started to leaf out. I need to start watching them, and get them outside fairly soon. My current problem is that there isn't anywhere to put them that isn't covered with snow and isn't in the direct path of cars. I have to at least find the back walk before they can come out. During the spring, they do a fair amount of moving in and out depending on the weather. Our current forecast is for above freezing temperature until Wednesday night, so they could definitely go out for a couple of days. If the forecast low is below around 28°F, or I have reason to believe it is going to get colder than that, they have to get moved back in for the night. If a cold spell comes, and they have to spend a couple of days inside, they just have to. The strange thing, at least IMHO, is that while they start growing so much earlier than the in the ground roses, they don't tend to start blooming that much earlier. Mutabilis has a very hard time beating R. hugonis, and it should be working with a several week head start. There is a definite learning curve with this....See MoreFig waking up in January, newbie oops
Comments (1)You may get many different opinions which would all probably work as fig plants are pretty resilient. As you mentioned you already moved it to a cooler location personally i think thats fine until weather breaks and you can do the fig shuffle with it . Next season when time to go dormant if you have a attached garage it wise to sit plant on cement floor and up against the wall that attaches to home , for peace of mind a cardbaord sleeve covering the whole thing (its young) and water very very minimal during that time just too keep the roots from drying out as your doing so well now. You would be surprised at the dormant temps ours see in our winters but these are larger older plants in 30 gallon containers mostly. Martin...See Moredoriswk
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