Volker is a good guy, but cuttings from him got frozen, in transit. (me and my big mouth)

I cy when I see posts like this, a good nursery person will not ship now. I'm sorry folks it's like tossing money out the window. I have only seen one person go beyond the all of duty when shipping and I was really impressed. I knew ordering late Dec. was a chance and let them know up front of our cold. Jack was fantastic in his shipping with foam box liner and the heat pack, not many folks will do this!! I won't order anything for 4 months now due to this.

hmmm karma speaking of cuttings, did you ever get those cherry slush cuttings you were bidding on ebay? If not I will have one for you when you are done freezing. All mine seemed to have rooted up nicely!

KHT: Jack is AMAZING with those heat packs and styro.

And a GEL pack. I loved it. First rate!

Nope I didn't, it seems I'm to well known?? LOL sultry_jasmine_night, you have stolen my heart!! Will check your list as I'm betting I have something in return for you off your list.

Congrats.. SJN.. I have heard it is a brat to root!...
Kylie

Dweeb- your eBay cuttings arrived okey??? Hope that's an affirmative!!!

Kylie, I lost Miss B Haven some time ago, and didn't want to tell you- when I read your post on BGI, I didn't feel quite so bad for losing her, just bad that I LOST her!!! Ya know!

I'm a bit paranoid about the Pink Perfektion I won- I will probably count her nodes, and make a 2-node cutting into a log and try the other part, with 2-3 nodes, rooted in water- look @ me, counting my nodes before they get here!
LOL!

I just found out from a brug hybridizer that our brug seeds should be okey being shipped at this time of year- once they get to our mail-boxes, well.......... better go get 'em quick!!

lol karma, I just remembered seeing your name a few times when I was gonna bid on those, so I kept restraining myself and snagged them a different time. I will save you one and you can email me and let me know when it is a good time to send it.

chena, they did take a little while to root. I didn't have trouble with the cherry slush but did have trouble with the stupid orange ones!! I'm still hoping one of the orange slush will come back from the roots..I'm thinking it must of been something to do with those cuttings because all 3 of them started drying from the top down immediately and didn't stop grrr! Well at least my meadow princess finally took root, that is the hardest one I've ever tried to root!

gottahosta, maybe it will relieve you to know that I am not having any problems rooting my pink perfection. It is seeming to not be so picky so far...

My pink perfektion cutting is doing fine also. Any tips for rooting meadow princess? We will be getting that one in the mail soon.

Gottahosta:

Nothing has arrived yet - but we're on the look out!

I did warn him of bitter temps here and to up my charge to accomodate FAST shipping or a heat pack - whichever he found more prudent.

kristy, They are just real slow. I don't know if it is just mine or if they are all that way. Mine were sort of green except one was semi woody. I kept mine in water for about a month and a half or so...and no roots (but no rot either), so I put one in soil..that one still has no roots...but looks good- it is the semi-woody one too. The others all started to put out roots-(tiny ones) all at about 7 wks. I potted them in dirt and now they have longer roots but are growing slowly. Hopefully yours will be faster..it could have just been my cuttings-dunno.

From an expert of many years growing brugs--- (not me!!!)

Brugs root best when they are actively growing- so cuttings taken from brugs slowing down in the Fall or going in to dormancy are much slower to root- makes sense!!

The only time of year that greenies root well is in May-June....... ????????? haven't tested that one yet, as I didn't have any green growing tips to spare last summer.

SJN.. No luck here with the Orange Slush.. It was enough to keep me from even looking at the Cherry...LOL Brenda I will hang on to a Miss B Havin for you if you want...
Kylie

Miss B Havin is still hanging in there with me Chena.

I lost Cherub. That's the only one of yours that checked out on me. I think my learning curve came too late for Cherub.

Most ALL the cuttings from the forum are hanging in there. It's the purchased ones that keep leaving! (grin)

Happy Brugs make for happy cuttings? (grin)

High of 10 today with a windchill of -13

Eesh. . . .