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Sun, Shade, Part Shade?????? Help

18 years ago

In your experience, what is the ideal amount of sunlight for my 'Halo Peach' brugs? I have no idea other than articles say brugs like full sun, but then some articles say part shade.....and shade from afternoon sun!? Please give me some advice before I plant this bucket in the ground. thanks in advance. :-)

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karmahappytoes
18 years ago
gardenlady48, the peach should be able to take more sun but not the hotter sun in the late afternoon there in IL. I would make sure during the heat of the day to make sure they are watered if they wilt due to the heat.
mollyzone5
18 years ago
I have the same question.I have a bed where I would like to try 2 of my yellow-orange brugs.This bed gets full sun,but does get filtered sun on and off through the day.I guess the thing would be to try,they might just love it there.
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rsieminski
18 years ago
i would take everything KHT says as gospel. She has helped me with many brug questions. She is very knowledgable.
That said, I am pushing them in my zone. I ended up with 20 vars or so to go in the only space I have left over. This is NW exposure, full sun all day, except a few hrs in the early am. Not a great place for Brugs. I kind of trained them though. I gradually brought them into full sun when they were potted up. The leaves turned a darker green, and became more pleated looking and thicker. I gave them water several times a day for 2 or 3 weeks. Then i sunk them into the ground, hooked them up to the drip system, and mulched real good. I set the timer to water them when ever I saw them drooping. I fine tuned it so they get water at 11:30am, 1:30pm, and 3:30pm. And they look great. The leaves don't get as long or wide, and they look more dense and compact then the ones in the afternoon shade. They are getting full of buds right now, so we shall see if I can get them to flower Ok in the full sun.
karmahappytoes
18 years ago
mollyzone5, I'm afraid you will be better off with just morning sun on that one. You will need to find one that will take full sun.
Thanks rsieminski! I'm glad to see you are learning and playing!
rsieminski
18 years ago
KHT,
Are there any that actually LIKE full sun in my zone. If I don't frequently water them, they would melt. If the times broke, it would only take a day or 2 and they would be toast.
karmahappytoes
18 years ago
rsieminski, B. Ammarillo Paja, Shorty's variegated and Jutner Peachy Cream are the only ones so far that I have been playing with that will take the full hot sun, watering once a day and don't droop that I have found. I have a special area that doesn't get much watering or the Cypress
tends to drink up what is feed in this area and these three are located in this area. I am shocked at them not drooping at all and am playing with these to create a better brug that will tollerate the heat and still bloom like crazy. I will also state that the last two listed are extremely hard to root so we don't allow them to leave until we find the best way to root them. Are you trying the more fuzzier leafed Brugmansia in this area?
rsieminski
18 years ago
Well, I ran out of choice morning sun planting areas, and needed to plant some in the front yard (NW exposure), so everything I had left went into the front yard, fuzzy leaved or not. There's only 1 at this point that looks a little wierd. I think it's Yellow Gold. It's dark so I can't go check right now. It has thinner, sword-like leaves, of a lighter green. It's starting to look a little stringy.
To keep this on track, the ones doing the best IMO, (large leaves, fast vert. growth, and they look happy)are along the NE facing wall, or in the dapple shade of a huge oak tree.
kdjoergensen
18 years ago
In zones 5 and 6, brugs can take full day sun but they need to be watered faithfully. In summer, with the large leaves that they have, they wilth if you do not provide enough water. This is espeically important if you have them in a planter which tend to dry out faster than in the ground.

In our colder zones, morning sun alone is probably a bit little for these sun lovers (may be enough in southern zones), but half day sun in zones 5/6 should still give good result.
mantorvillain
18 years ago
Well said kdj. I'm finding I need to give my brug children all the sun I can provide here in 4b...the exception being Snowbank which seems to want to burn no matter where I put it (gonna try the east side of my house by front porch this year and try to talk it into liking that - LOL). Unfortunately most of my yard & where we spend time mostly is on the north side and those do 'OK' but not as well as the ones I can fit on the south. Like so many others I get as much info as I can then trial n error for my yard's microclimate.

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