Cooler night temperatures naturally set off the blooms for most brugmansia that's why they seem to do particularly well in fall and spring compared to the summer months. I give mine bloom booster to help them set more blooms during the summer months. Some varieties will just bloom more during hot nights than others as well. My Miss Emily McKenzie and Mountain Magic and Ila Marie are flushing very steady even though it has been hot and humid even at night whereas some of the others are slowing down. I need to get out and hit them all with some bloom booster but its been too hot to do anything out there lately lol. For more foliage you want nitrogen, for more blooms you want more phosphorus (middle # in the npk ratio on the fertilizer box) Your plants look really lush so they are probably getting plenty of nitrogen. This post was edited by sultry_jasmine_night on Tue, Jul 9, 13 at 10:57

Karyn1, Thank you! Ya know, I hadn't even thought about looking for a bugger that blends in---no wonder I didn't see anything yesterday while searching for whatever it is that is having lunch at my Brug's expense. I found a rather icky looking green spider that had a bee tethered to long single webbing but the spider stayed inside the flower all day and night, with bee dangling. After responding to these posts I am going to go look up hornworm and later today I'll look more closely at the underside of the leaves. Wonderful information -- Thanks again! Neonposey, Thank you so very much for your sweet words! Whenever someone new goes out to the back yard and starts praising my Double Delight Tree or any of my other little plants, I find myself re-directing them to my Brug. Sort of like one of those stage mothers that want all the attention on their one special child while slighting her other kids in the process. It's as if I want ALL the attention on my Brug --- nothing like being TBO (Totally Brug Obsessed) huh? And to think, I'm this protective of just one Brug--I can't imagine what would happen to me if I had any more like you all do - Yikes! LOL Karmahappytoes, Thank you for that information! You know, living in S. Calif. one doesn't know from day to day what's going on with the weather. Just when I thought we were really into Autumn and put a thermo blanket on the bed, up comes 90 degree weather the early part of this past week and I had already adjusted my watering habits for Autumn a couple weeks before. So now that you said 'dried out', I'm wondering if maybe that hot spell we had last week had something to do with it? All I know is that I baby my Brug -- my family calls it "Mom's precious Angel Baby" and I had never noticed anything like this so I'm going to really watch closely the watering situation from now on. Thank you again! Sibhskylvr, Awww, thank you so very much for your kind words--means a lot! Technodweeb, Hadn't thought about it that way before ...'Ugly Duckling of plants' LOL. Love it! I too had done a bit of searching on the web for the browning, crunchy that is happening before the flower is even open but couldn't find anything. I didn't search for hours but did search. That's what made me start looking here at GW. First I looked in the S. Calif. Discussions. Did a search there and some other discussions and somehow ran into this discussion board exclusively for Brugs. You can probably imagine how excited I was to find you all! I have two local nurseries, both are privately run. We must be going to the closest at the wrong times because it seems to always be closed whenever we go by with plans to stop. The other is run by a very nice old man. You ask him what time it is and he'll tell you how to make a Swiss Watch. He doesn't seem to be able to stay on topic and I never really get answers to my questions. But he does have some wonderful plants at great prices although he doesn't have any Brugs. The other two 'nurseries' within decent driving distance are Home-Depot and Lowes. You and Karmahappytoes both mentioned the drying/water and as I told Karmahappytoes, we did have unusually dry/very hot weather last week. I had already changed my watering habits for the onset of Autumn when we were hit with 90+ degree weather out of nowhere. We don't have a sprinkler system, I hand-water all my plants. Now that you've both mentioned it, it's probably likely that I didn't adjust my watering to compensate for those hot, hot days. I'll be more careful from now on, that's for sure! Thank you so much for your time and your comments---so appreciated! I spent most of last night browsing here at the Brug forum. In and out of discussions and jotting down new-to-me information on a pad next to my computer. I got more information here, from all these discussions about Brugs than I ever got searching the web! You all are not only gracious to give freely of your time and knowledge but witty and funny, too! Thank you all again so very much!

Pam, the deep blue flower in the last picture is Princess Flower. Eloise, the lemon is Mayer and is very precious to me. In my previous house I had 2 Meyer lemon trees in the ground. When we redone the patio the constructions guys cut and dug them out. I almost fainted when I came home and saw it. Few month later a shoot came from the ground and my mom was nursing it until it grew in a small tree. When I moved I dug it out and took it with me because reminds me of my mom. Thanks everyone for your concern. Yes, I am feeling much better. Can't wait to get rid of crouches. Pat

Thanks for the input ...... how many lady bugs would you say you release in your room?? AS MANY AS I COULD CATCH - PERHAPS 25? Also, Im curious how many bhuts you have there? Looks like three or four and then the hanging one?? 11 BJ PLANTS INCLUDING 2 THREE YEAR OLDS AND 5 TWO YEAR OLDS. Fantastic looking plants for sure!! THANKS Posted by pizzaburgers (My Page) on Wed, Nov 11, 09 at 18:16 Awesome looking peppers! I'm jealous! It'd be pretty awesome if you shared some of your overwintering experience with us less experienced pepperheads. Are the florescent lights you have hanging there the only light the plants get? YES. Do the plants produce over the winter, or do you just keep them dormant? I HAVE DONE BOTH. THREE SONS ARE KEEPING ME TOO BUSY TO DO IT THIS YEAR BUT IT IS POSSIBLE FOR SURE. How often do you water, and what do you feed them? I HAVE FOUND THAT BJ MORESO THAN OTHER PEPPERS REQUIRE FREQUENT WATERING - EVERY FEW DAYS. I EXPERIMENTED THIS SUMMER WITH FERTILIZER, NO FERTILIZER AND A COMBINATION FISH EMULSION/SEAWEED EXTRACT - THE WINNER HANDS DOWN WAS FE/SE. I WISH I WAS MORE COMPUTER LITERATE TO COPY IT - I DID A WHOLE THREAD ON THE EXPERIMENT SO YOU MIGHT WANT TO SEARCH FOR IT. HOPE THIS HELPS GUYS, SORRY FOR THE LATE RESPONSE - I'M NOT ON THE COMPUTER TOO OFTEN. RAVI