Hey Patrick!!!!!
Welcome... glad you chose to come see us....Congrats on your new Brug! I only have a new start of SN but grow many more...
LOL you think Spider Mites love Jasmine just wait till they get a good look at that Brug.. Be sure to keep an eye on it..The only other suggestion I really have is to not over water it while it is in the house...Once you get it outside just feed often , afternoon shade and plenty of water and air circulation.. and it should put on a show for you..
Hey Ya'll we could start a lottery on just When Patrick thinks he just might need another Brug...LOL
I'm afraid you will find this amazing plant to be a severe addiction.. and (Let me warn you) there are many who will be more than willing to feed this addiction...;^)

I look forward to seeing you around!!!
Kylie

Hey Patrick, welcome to the wonderful world of brugs, and our lovely forum where it is more like family here than a forum. I'm pretty new here as well, just got started in Nov. So I will let the more experienced peeps pipe in on the advice part. Hang around here though, & you will find yourself addicted to brugs, beware because there are many enablers here, lol. Anyway..Just wanted to say Hey!

Hey guys...Another one for the "boy's club" lmao!!

Daniella

Hi Patrick,
You'll love the brugs. They are some of the easiest sub tropicals to grow and you don't have to wait such a long time for blooms like you do with plumies. You can store them both under pretty much the same conditions over the winter. I don't have a Super Nova but I don't think that one is supposed to be fussy. The fussy ones seem to be the sanguineas and some of the doubles. Most of the others are relatively easy. I'm in Montgomery County and there's another member, Dave, who is in No VA. Once it's warm enough to put your brug outside you'll want to slowly acclimate it to the sun. You might have to protect it from direct sun during the hottest part of the day all summer. some varieties can take full sun, others can't. Your plant will let you know. They are also very quick to recover from abuse. Brugs are very heavy feeders during the growing season. I've never had a plant that "eats" as much as a brug. I start with a balanced fertilizer the very beginning of the season and switch to a bloom booster once a week until about a month before I put them away for the winter. I also give them epsom salts, kelp extract, superthrive and various other additives, including foliar feeds once a month during the growing season. You'll end up with more then one. They really are beautiful plants.
Karyn

Wecome Patrick!
I have Super Nova just bought it last year, I can tell you
the blooms are really big and I really like it so far.

Karen

Hi Patrick, Welcome. I have Super Nova too along with over 40 others. I love the huge flowers. What city do you live in? I am in Western MD & especially happy to see more people at "my" end of the country.

Linda in Cumberland MD

Hi Patrick welcome to the sometime crazy world of Brugs,okay okay,I said sometime crazy,when really its most of the time,and I for one can tell you this is not just a forum it is extended family.
Bonnie

welcome Patrick. I joined back last year. you can really get good advise.good wishes. this group of bruggers are really knowledgeable. fun loving. & addicted. to brugs & good friends. hi everyone have missed ya all have had to dig out the snow storm we just had over the week-end plantlover49

New to the forum but have grown brugs for a few years and loving it. Was looking at a catalog at a friends home and discovered what they called a 3in1 brug. It actually had three colors of flowers growing on the same plant. Has anyone had experience with such a plant?
Gwen

Hi everyone,

Thanks so much for the warm welcomes and advice. It figures that I'd start off with one of the harder brugs to grow. I'll try to take a pic of it to share so you can see how it progresses and help me out along the way. Right now, since I have it sitting near a window on the kitchen counter, I'm not fertilizing or watering it too much. I figure I'll start the fertilizer once I move it outside. Keep your fingers crossed.

Hey, welcome to the family. I think I have a cutting of Super Nova if it didn't croak. I know it was on the rack with a lot that didn't make it. I need to check the tags and see. Once you get it outside it will be much easier. Watch for fungus gnats and spider mites. They are the devil, lol. Good luck and take pics.

Hey Patrick,

Welcome. Where in Northern VA are you? I'm in Annandale, just outside the Beltway. I've got maybe 8 different varieties and will likely have a ton of cuttings to trade in the Fall, if you're interested. We've just moved into our house last summer, so this will be our first full growing season. Can't wait for warmer weather. I also grow plumerias and most all (of about 20+) will go in the ground this summer. We have a small group of folks who are interested in hardy palms and subtropicals. We ocassionally meet and do yard tours in the summer as well as share plants and cuttings. Email me if you want to be included on the email list.

Hi Gwen, Welcome to the Forum!!!
Glad to see you here!
I have`nt seen the three in one blooming Brug as yet.
Look forward to seeing you!

Karen

Jumping on the wagon here to say "Howdy" to Patrick.
I'm new here too and my wife's the one to be blamed for this addiction! Believe me, I'm her happiest enabler!
Gwen could it be when the flower starts off it's white, then changes to a peach..then pink or whatever is its' final color? If that's so, you'd have 3 in one plant.

hi patrick! welcome! I'm still fairly new here too (joined the day after my 21st birthday this past fall, but lurked for a while before that). I'm new to brugs but I'm pretty good at tearing into people with false and cruel claims of strange colored brugs (LOLOLOL remember that guys?) and thusly I suppose I could be considered the resident guard dog, LOL.

I bought my super nova at logee's too! literally AT logee's, lol, they're about an hour west of me. it was my second brug after my inca sun, I bought it in like september and it hasn't really done much for me :\ damn thing barely even grows lol. I've got brugs I've started myself from cuttings this past fall that are already as tall as it, and a crapton more vigorous and healthy. oh well, hopefully when it goes outside it'll do better :)

hey! show us pictures of your new baby!

Ria

Hey Gwen!!!
Welcome!!! Sounds like someone my be selling a grafted Brug! I would love to see a pic of it.. I have one that is braided but hasn't bloomed yet ..
I look forwar to seeing you around.. BTW!!! We love pic's ya'll.. We also don't get real touchy (like some forums) over OT stuff!!!! SOOOO feel free to show us what ya got!
Speaking of OT!!!! Ya'll it is suppose to be 87* on Friday!!! WOO HOO!!! Yes my BA will be outside soakin it up...LOL

Thanks so much for your ideas on the 3in 1 brug.A graft sounds logical but will get more info to share. Since moving into my home here in FL over two years ago, I guess I've shared cuttings of my angel trumpets to the majority of my neighbors. They even call it the Gwen Plant! What's a beautiful plant if you don"t share it to be enjoyed by others.

Gwen

welcome patrick and gwen.

i'll come out of lurkdom to join these knowledgeable folks in welcoming you. hope you'll find this forum as valuable as i have, great info and pictures. lots of green thumbs here!

Thanks again, everyone, for the welcome.

By the way, how do I attach a picture into my message?

In a way, I find my interest in looking at other people's plants kind of funny. There's something voyeuristic about it. And I find I'm a little embarassed to tell people I enjoy looking at pictures of other people's plants growing. I need an addiction that's more socially acceptable. Sheesh. :-)

Dave, I'm in Alexandria (Del Ray) just outside of Old Town. Thanks for the offer to add me to the list of people into tropicals and yard tours. Sign me up! I'm into plumeria, too, and have two small ones I carted back from the Dole plantation in Honolulu. Once they're bigger, I'd certainly share cuttings. (There's not much to cut at this point.) I'd like to hear more about how you handle plumerias, especially the part about putting them in the ground.

Feel free to send me an email. I'm at hapki68@yahoo.com

Patrick

Oh you poor thing Partick, you have no ideal what you are getting into on this Forum. You are surrounded by some of the very best people on GARDEN WEB. These folks will spoil you if given half a chance. The one draw back is you will have to log on here everyday just to see whats happening.

All of these folks are big time enablers. There are several you will really need to be carefull with or they will ship you more brugs than you could every imagine.

Welcome to our world, want you come on in? Just remember, you have been warned.

Happy Gardening and Brugging,
Marian

Welcome Onesimus!
Glad to have you here!

Karen

WELCOME PATRICK: I am a last year newbie to Brugs and have already surrendered to the addiction!! I have a small Super Nova that right now has one bloom on it. It was worth the wait. Pretty white trumpet that is BIG and impressive. Hope to see you on the forum often.
WELCOME GWEN: Your multi-colored Brug sounds lovely. Several Brugs begin their blooms in one color and then in ensuing days there is a color change. So sometimes when you have blooms at different stages of development, it will look as if the Brug is multi-colored. A pretty sight. Be sure to keep us posted on your Brug's progress.
Gloria

Welcome to the boys club. LOL we are out numbered but like it that way. I was bitten by the brug bug and it infected my entire universe. LOL I went from offshore and bay boats to flowers. My friends shake their heads. Some ask who my boy friend is and i say SHHHHHHHHHHHHH don't tell my wife (humor)(grin). Hey flowers are for guys also. Who cares what is socially acceptable. I talk to mine every day and night.

Jim

Patrick and Gwen-

Welcome to The Family!! You're done for now! LOL!

Brenda B

Welcome, Patrick,Gwen & onesimus! Wow, our Brug family is growing by leaps & bounds!LOL Last summer was my first time with a NOID yellow that changes to orange.Now I have around 30 rooted cuttings of different named & unnamed(NO ID).I also have 3 brugs from seed & 1 Iochroma( a relative of brugs).Not to mention, plumeria, passiflora, amaryllis, african violets, etc......LOL
Do you see where this is going? Anyway, nice getting to know you.

Theresa

Just checked and lost both my Super Nova cuttings. (Frowning)

F4F: I hope I can help you out with SN cuttings. Give me a little more time to be sure she's grown-up enough to cut. Gloria

Hey onesimus!!!! Welcome..
Soryy I am so late...I look forward to seeing you around!!! We are a really great group and I hope you will just jump right in and post..Oh and we Love pics and are always looking for new ways to do things and would love to hear about everything as well as Brugs that you grow...
Kylie

Thank you Gloria. If I can get all mine outside where they will do better I will have plenty of cuttings to share once mine do some growing as well. Stick around onesimus we will corrupt you yet.

Good to see you onesimus! Where you been hiding lately? Hope everything is going good with you and Jaye! Are you getting your plants outdoors yet where you live?

Welcome Patrick, Gwen and onesimus! Isn't this group great!!!

Welcome Patrick, Gwen and onesimus! Are you ready to be 'spoiled' by us all into the world of brug addiction & obsession?? :) By the end of summer you'll most likely have so many brugs you won't know what to do with them! lol! It DOES happen!

Mike

Thank you all for the wonderful welcome. Karen, Theresa, Kylie, Eloise and Mike, we are looking forward to amass more brugs and try out more crosses! Severely addicted here!
SJN, the pots are slowly exposed outdoors, but brought back in at night. As for the seeds, looks like we might need your 'snake charmer'!
Kel

Welcome to all newbies. I've been around awhile but don't get into this forum as much as I'd like. I have Super Nova for a second year and the blooms including calyx and corola can measure 14-18 inches. It's one long sucker. The first blooms "drug" on the ground til it grew taller. Good luck with your new plants.

Jarie, I'm sorry to say the ones I got from you died. They were doing good for a long time then dried out and died like some of the others I planted around that same time. I don't know what happened to them.

Hi Group...
I ordered the 3 in 1 angel trumpet from "House of Wesley: :( what it turned out to be is 3 plants white,yellow,pink in the same pot. I ordered 3 and did plant them all. I too thought there would a grafted, but it wasn't.
Now I don't know what to feed them. Can anyone suggest a food for these plants.
I'm kind of new to this, as I moved from CA to TN when I retired and not very experienced.
Lynne

With mine I mixed dried chicken manure and terracycle plant food into the potting soil and then I fertilize with water soluble miracle-gro. I think any balanced fertilizer will be OK, but I will let the more experienced people sign in.
Shawn

A warm welcome to Patrick,Gwen & onesimus. You will love it here on the forum--these folks are knowledgeable and terrible enablers!! I came home from my trip and have Olympic Flame blooming!! Very pretty!! Sorry folks! No pics until my luggage catches up with me (if ever!!)
Linda