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I think I am growing a monster brug!

12 years ago

This is AxelRose X Remschield I am growing for almost 2 years now. It's growing and growing and growing and no sign of a Y yet. It almost reached the gutters on a 2 story building. The leaves are humongous and is planted in a 15 gallons pot.

It is almost 2 times the height of a normal brug. Close to it is Sam and Flame.

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Leaves are 23in long.

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See how it compare with some large leaves from my other brugs.

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It is a monster or what?

Pat

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Ament
12 years ago
Whew! at least you can leave the pots outside even in winter right? I'd hate to have to even think of trying that here. I'd never be able to get it into any sort of storage here. LoL

~Tina Marie
karyn1
12 years ago
By the time it blooms the flowers will be too high up for you to see! lol
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BTW when I see spindly Brug photos, I never get that shape unless I under water and/or under fertilze them. I have great luck with some even if only get 3-4 direct summer sun daily. They need much water and food to do well. I tend to use pelleted, slow release (4 mo) fertilizer, top dressed at 2-4x the rate indicated, added 2-3 times more often than suggested. Been using a 10-10-10 type ("Stay Green", I think) to favor flowering. It works well and is best deal only $1/lb at Lowe's. When can't find it Lily Miller has a similarly price fertlizer, which brwaks down to release, rather than has an osmotic release shell. If I foliar feed, hydrophonic supply or even Miracle Gro (from granules) misted on them, at 1/4x recommended loading, really greens them up and increases growth rate (works great on Roses and Hydrangeas too). Mist leaves, most optimally on their under surfaces, until they start dripping a bit to stop salt build up. Don't use Miracle Gro for foliar feeding at higher concentrations. There is a lot of common salt in it used to ensure it dissolving, and you will get salt burns spots, where it concentrated into droplets. I also think that the water blast and light salt drying treat helps knock back mites or other leaf surface problems. Heck our body salt dried onto our skin does much to protect us from microbes ... yep we're lightly brined! On plants focused misting action with foliar feeds is a great way to knock aphids off of rose or (eg Gold Flame) honeysuckle new growth ends, and help suppress new baby bugs and also fungal leaf spotting. Spray in early AM so can has time to soak in and act before drying by midday. This is also when plants need nutrients pumped into their leaves to greet and efficiently utilize sun energy, soon to greet them. This is why plants form "gutation" leaf surface droplets just before dawn. The roots are pumping up nutrients to stage them in the leaves and the extra carrier water must be released. By far the highest concentration of stomata leaf openings are on the underside of the leaves and the nutrients get in just fine there. Think jungle ... BE the jungle ... in nature, plants are benefitted from deacaying vegetation drippings, lightning created nitrate, bird and bat guano "gifted" from the skies above ... romantic isn't it?
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Thanks, but unfortunately I have to dispose all but 5-6 of them. Eloise, I did separated the ones I keep last night and.... I kept 7. Could not decide which one to keep. I picked the stronger ones. It's soooo hard to kill the rest of them:-(
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Loved, I used m.g. In the blue box their bloom booster and it worked wonders. So after alot of research and thought ( ok and being nosey) I went to one of the hydro stores and bought some monkey business fertilizer to test on one brug ( npk 15-50-15) it drank it up and grew like crazy, blooms galore! It is not organic, nor cheap it cost me $49.00. The others with m.g bloom booster was good but no comparison.The downside is it chalked up the top layer of the dirt and needed flushing, and its like crack once started you have to used it or they wilt awful.Go to one of the hydro stores or order online.I will be using it on all of my brugs this year as my growing season is very short, and brugs have become my crack and I gotta have em!
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eloise_ca
12 years ago
Wow Pat, that is pretty amazing! I know brugs grow into trees if you let them. I love the leaf comparison, whoa! Hope you get blooms sometime soon so we can see what that cross looks like.
tommysmommy
12 years ago
Is it perhaps an alien hybrid, getting set to consume small children and animals and eventually take over your neighborhood?
figara
Original Author
12 years ago
Ha,ha. Dianne, first will take over my yard. The curious part is that it's in the corner behind the bench and gets less water and food because is hard to get to it. It seams that it doesn't matter what, he just wants to grow.

I am curious if somebody grows this cross and how it behaves.

Pat
chena
12 years ago
That is just Crazy!!! I hope you have a BIG ladder if it decides to bloom.. The others look amazing!!!

Kylie
maile_2010
12 years ago
Awesome leaves. Hope it blooms for ya.
Jerry
Ament
12 years ago
Pat, if you ever do a cutting on it, I'd love a rooting. I'd gladly try to grow it here to see how it does. :) Just let me know this fall, if you do cut and root them.

I still can't get over how darn big that monster is though. What is the pinkish brug in front?

~Tina
figara
Original Author
12 years ago
Tina, the first brug with the flowers is Sam and in the back is Flame.
When I take cuttings I'll offer them for sure. First I want to see it bloom. In 2-3 month will be 2 years since I grew it so I want flowerrrrrs. I did not cut it back last year hopping that will Y faster this year and I'll see buds but I was wrong :-(

Pat
Ament
12 years ago
Well, I hope you get to see flowers on it Pat. I just love the brugs and Bill sent me two. I love them! :) I just love looking at the photos you all share. So beautiful. I don't know how to feed to force flowers but others on here seem to do very well with it. Hehe I'll learn though!

~Tina
figara
Original Author
12 years ago
Tina, you add bloom booster fertilizer which has the middle number high. The only thing is that this guy does'n want to react to it. He has his own mind :-)
Ament
12 years ago
I'll write that down so that I can buy some and get them going in the spring. I don't want them blooming over the winter. :)

~Tina
User
12 years ago
Axel Rose (the musician) always was sort of bigger than life and plenty wild. :)

That's simply amazing. When it blooms, the neighbors will be coming from miles around to look at it.

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