Hi Molly, kmstx, and StarLucid, Thank you for the kind words. Hopefully, I can answer most of the questions posed in the above two posts. Although I do get occasional flowers now and then, I find cool nights are what set the buds for my plants and some of my plants need cooler nights than the others, for bloom bursts like the pictures above. For me, fertilizer always helps...I have now switched to the green powder stuff you apply with your hose...I soak each plant for 2-3 minutes with fertilizer...remember, my plants are in the ground and now 8 feet tall. I do this every 6 days or so now and they are really responding much better than throwing the dry fertilizer on the ground around the plants. Yes, if your plant died back to the ground or you cut it back, it will need to "Y" again (I really dislike using that term...however, I cannot come up with a better one...LOL!) before it flowers. Mine do and I cut them back to 5 feet tall in the Fall. For over-Wintering, in my opinion, I truely think it is best to bring in your pot (or if your plant is in the ground, dig up the rootball and pot) and place near a sunny window and continue it to grow during the Winter. Even if you do not have a nice sunny window, good bright light will help. The larger plant you save without cutting back is best, say if your plant is under 4 feet tall and you can handle one that size in your livingroom, dining room, or a bedroom. If you trim yours back as I have to do to mine, then only trim back as minimal as you need to...remembering that in may grow 1-2 feet in the Spring prior to weather allowing you to take it outside. If you saw what I did to my plants with a big pruners, you'd weep! (Also, if you cut it back so there are little or no leaves, realize that it will not need frequent watering until it leafs out again.) Will it end up dropping its leaves? Yes, in time. Will it make a mess, probably. And it may even end up looking bad and go semi-dormant during the dead of Winter. And in February or so, you may get "blessed" with a ravaging infestation of spidermites and whitefly! Water sparingly over the Winter, but do not let it go bone dry. You need to keep the roots alive. When I water in the Winter, I soak my plants thoroughly but do NOT let them sit in standing water in a tray. Then I let them go until the soil is dry on top or they look like they may wilt. It can be a couple a weeks between watering. In the early Spring it will start its growth again and you will have a plant that will have a few flowers when you put it outside, if not a few inside. As they grow, your watering may need to increase some. The larger the pot your brug is in the better, brugs need a good large root system to perform well in our hot Summers. If you have good soil, then in the ground will be even better for the Summers as mine are. By the way, I do not even attempt to dig up the entire rootball...I am not totally nuts! You can read what I wrote about that early in this thread. I have not done the "bucketing" but TNGreenThumb outlines it above in this thread. Hopefully, I have covered everything...if not, ask away. Wildcat

Its funny cause the trigona gets full Sun and the leaves are the only red on it that's why I'm kinda iffy as to what kind it is...but then again most of my plant's are mutants Any how..Lol Tried e-mail ing you stush, don't kno if YOU got it I'm not that tech savvy LOL If u tell me what plant YOU like I'll let you kno if i have another or a clipping or a pup or something to give you. Beautiful sunny day TODAY, makes me wanna take a ride to the plant store and see what misfits I'll come home with! -Lets just hope they ALL fit in my scooter!

Very nice flowers Jesus! Did you ever experience one of your Angel Trumpet Brugmansia having Two Flowers in one Bud? I am not talking Double or Triple Flower but Two Flowers in one Bud? anyone have experience one of your Tree?

Thanks so much everyone! I lost Voila Francois (super sad about that one because I was in love) and a lot of my plants had buds that literally dried to a crisp before opening, so in addition to these being pretty, they are survivors! O cool! Thanks, Nate, for the heads up on photo option :) ANd yes..I guess the ones peeking through green are not sad and yellow - they're angry and tan Lol ;) *waves* Hi, Nancy :) Glad your computer is up and running.