"escapee" wrote in message
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Okay, first let me direct you to this website:
http://www.americanbrugmansia-daturasociety.org/

Now, I don't know how you are watering your plant, but they are huge water
guzzlers and huge feeders in containers. They are much better in the
ground,
but containers is how I do them and I have about 10 of them in 30 gallon
tubs.
They do NOT like hot night temperatures and will almost go dormant in the
hottest part of the summer when nights are still over 80 degrees.

I find water rooting brugmansia is somewhat timely as the small bumps you
describe can take about six weeks to develop. I root my cuttings in
potting mix
and I place the container (4") in a ziplock bag and keep it closed for the
first
week. Then, I still leave it in the bag, but open the top. Even moisture
is
very important. Too wet, you get rot, as you can see.

I suggest you take about ten cuttings of the plant in question and you
will get
at least half of those to take root. Without seeing the problem, I cannot
help
diagnose it, but the weight of flowers can take down a young plant. My
plants
are now ranging from 10 years old, to new cuttings taken last spring.

Go to the above website and ask your questions in their forum, or browse
around.
There are many brugmansia lovers.

Victoria


Thanks for the reply. I will post some pictures somewhere soon. (I could
email them to you if you want, but you will have to email me with a valid
address.) I will also look again at the above website. That is where I
got the information for trying to root the last cuttings I tried to
register for the forum at that site on 07/24 and got a reply that my request
had been received but I would have wait for another email before I had
access to the forum. So far, no follow-up email. I tried to access the
forum yesterday before posting here, but no luck.

You are right about them being very heavy feeders and needing a LOT of water
in containers. I have been feeding them with 12-12-12 twice a week as they
tend to get chlorotic and drop leaves if left unfed. They also demand
constant watering. Our weather has been unseasonably cool this year and I
suspect that is why the one that split has boomed so prolifically. In the
past, it only started to bloom when the evening temperatures dropped. Then
shortly afterwards I would have to bring it inside where and let it go
dormant. I have a picture from September of last year and that is the first
time it really bloomed heavily. I have a white one that is not blooming. I
had one or two flowers on it a few weeks ago, and it has one bud right now.
That plant has larger, longer, lighter, and slightly more hairy leaves. The
flowers are a bit more waxy and the fragrance is so strong that a single
flower will perfume the entire yard. I would really like to have that one
get a couple dozen blooms on it at once, like the troublesome pink one.