angel's trumpets in TN?
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Angels Trumpet and Japanese Beetles
Comments (13)I myself have to fight with those nasty japanese beetles. There are a few way to fight with those nasty beetle. It only reduce the number of beetle from 10 to 1. Well in spring make sure you put those pesticide granule. The Japanese beetle live underground as a grub eatting away at the root your plant. Make sure those granule are made to kill grub. Also if you have a flower bed that the JB love to eat, try planting some lemon grass in it. If you don't have any lemon grass try garlic. The most important time to fight those Japanese beetle is in the summer. Buy a Japanese beetle trap and set them as far away from your plant as possible. Then buy (usually I grow them) some really hot pepper and put it in the blender and then liquify them. Filter it with a old sock or somethings so you can spray them on your plant. This way when those JB bit into the leaf it will not taste right. It also work as a barrier for other insect that eat the leaf. For extra protection buy a bird house. Those bird that live in them love Japanese beetle. The hot pepper come in a wax form. You can buy it online or just make your own. Just remember to apply it after every rain. It don't burn your leaf or make the fruit fall off. So you can relax.........See MoreAngel Trumpet Warning
Comments (54)This is a rather aged thread, but I couldn't help but chime-in on it, because this has become a subject in our home. (I beg your forgiveness for resurrecting the dead.) Brugmansia (Angel's Trumpet), Datura (Devil's Trumpet), and notable others (Belladonna, ad infinitum) in the plant kingdom, have highly variable toxic/pharmacological affect upon the human body; as well as wildly varying concentrations of such substances, within their parts and on their surfaces, over time. As a category, humans vary widely in their susceptibility to the various alkaloids found in such plant specimens. Furthermore, individuals have a wide variation in their reactions to such substances over the course of any time interval you might be interested in examining. I would imagine age to be a huge factor in some cases. There is much misinformation being disseminated on both sides of the fence with respect to this issue toxicity/sensitivity. I, myself, have been working with Brugs for quite some time, now, and do not--for the most part--react adversely to any of the plant substances I have encountered. While I certainly don't ingest the plant or anything from it, I don't take what I consider to be paranoid measures to protect myself from being exposed to, or decontaminating myself after exposure, Brugmansia plant parts or secretions. I have had a single incidence of slightly blurred vision in my right eye after accidentally getting a dose of Brug sap in it. It was not much of an incident, if I may say so, and was--at most--a minor irritant to me for a couple of hours. I have had zero effect from wading into my Brugs with the pruning shears and getting my hands and arms covered in the plant secretions, along with a nick or cut--or two--on my hands and elbows. This is regular behavior for me, and I have not developed the habit of conversing with my toe nails or lady bugs. I do, however, react violently to things like malathion analogues and consumer-level defoliants; and cannot tolerate exposure to them for even short periods of time; so, I take far more care about avoiding manufactured chemicals than I would ever think about with respect to my Brugs, and I haven't many stories to tell as a consequence. Maybe I should type-up alarmist-toned messages, warning people not to ingest insecticides and weed killers, and spread them around the Internet? Naw....it's too insulting to the intelligence of the reader. In terms of credibility, the story attributed to the Y! group does have the overall tone of the Apocryphal alarmist tale--complete with the liberal use of the exclamation point for emphasis. It rings far more like a fabrication; woven from generally valid bits of common sense, and taken to the extreme; than it sounds like the narrative of an actual event. We all benefit from the application of valid common sense; which, admittedly, seems to be rarer these days that it was when I was a kid. Nobody benefits from histrionics--except, maybe, Snopes. "Hmm...methinks I am being fed some BS on the Internet."--WildCat I do have to agree....See MoreAngels Trumpet (deadly flower )
Comments (28)This is just too unreal about the Angel Trumpet. Must be a different variety. I only know my'ne are called Angels Trumpet. I bought a little growing stem from a elderly lady who potted them in many colors. Nothing was said about them being poison. She would probably be dead as well as my husband and I. My'ne gets about 15ft. Georgeous pink upside down trumpets. I have potted cutting for everyone I know. North Tx. does'nt have as much growing luck. I havent tried to eat them ! I have bought a purple double that died last year and is coming back now. You people must have another strain.I will find out from the little old lady I bought them from. I bought more online. Now don't you know they could be sued???...See Moreangel trumpet seeds
Comments (7)Yes, they are definitely daturas. So, in your zone, they will self seed, by the 100s !! Each pod will be loaded with up 100 seeds or so, and when they get ripe and burst open, scattering the seeds, you will have more plants in the spring, unless you harvest the seedpods before they open on their own. In my opinion, don't waste time trying to mulch the mother plant, you will have more than enough seeds/plants come next spring. Dan...See Morematernut
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SmokyMist
18 years agotngreenthumb
18 years agoI grow them in buckets with 1.5" holes drilled in the sides then sunk into the ground. They do fine and are easier to lift up in the Fall. I have not had a lot of luck getting them to come back from the roots here in Nashville. Some will come back but it takes them so long to get big enough to bloom again.
I get bloom flushes like this in June by planting whole trunks back out in late April, early May.
Then fuller flushes throughout the summer.
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Odds are me and my sister are who Norman is talking about.
Cheryl: Let me get this straight....You not only had a seed pod, but it ripened outdoors and dropped seed which is now coming up? Most unusual for where you are.... Bring some of those seedlings to the swap. I want to see them.
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