I've had one brugmansia tree for 2 years. It's about 9 feet tall and beautiful. I've propagated 2 other huge brugmansia from it. It's such an amazing plant
Good to hear this. Do you keep it in the ground? Raised bed? How do you cover it for winter? What part of the country are you in. It's supposed to be a H1C plant 5-10°. Sorry for all the questions.
Its my first year with these amazing plants. But a word of warning. I recently removed the very spikey seed pods without gloves. Big mistake. They are very sharp and tricky to handle and I clearly pricked myself a few times. Following that my hands became very, very itchy and hot. I couldn't get relief by scratching then and had to take antihistamines to calm them down. After half an hour the itchiness had travelled up my arm to my elbow. Took 3 hours to ease. My friend who gave me the cuttings doesn't suffer at all so it may just be me. Please be mindful this could be an issue for some though.
Steve, I'm afraid you may have mistaken your Brugmansia for a Datura. Brugmansia seed pods do not have spikes. Datura's do. Apart from this obvious diff, Brugmansia flowers hang down and Datura's grow upward.
What do you do for this when it is cold? Do you just leave it or do you need to wrap it through any cold weather when it is in the ground. I have two but this is my first year, I pull them inside when the temperature drops low. Any information you could pass along as far as care through the temperature swings would be so helpful. Thank you
Thank you for posting this video! I just purchased a yellow angel trumpet and was hoping to give cuttings to family and friends. Very excited to try your method. Happy gardening! 😊🌱🐛🦋🌸
In the early 1990's we had a 12' double brugmansia in our San Francisco garden at 9th and Sanchez. A freak cold snap down to 25' felled it into a sad melted pile, but I held hope until spring. Sure enough, up came new shoots! We had blooms by early summer. Your video about rooting cuttings gives me extra confidence to try it in the ground here in Portland, Oregon. If I do lose it, I'll simply replant from my cuttings. Thanks!
Hi Craig, welcome back! Didn't realise Brugmansia was so easy to propagate in water. Following your instructions, I have taken some cuttings of my cream-coloured one and am keeping my fingers crossed. Thanks for the video.
I saw these in Hawaii like 7 years ago and my mom told me they’re so poisonous you can die from just touching them. I’ve had a big fear of them ever since. The other night I dreamed there was one of these plants tangled around my body and I couldn’t get it off. I was scared to breathe the pollen in and held my breath as I tried to get untangled from it. I woke up gasping for air 😅
touching it wont kill u and its not as poisonous as you think but its still extremely poisonous, some people eat multiple seeds to get high but its not a fun trip at all
Many garden sites caution that it can take years to get flowers from a Brugmansia cutting. But a master gardener told me years ago that you can get flowers *in the first year* by planting the cuttings taken “above the Y”--specifically, above where a branch splits at a 90 degree angle into two flowering branches. I have found this to be true after several years of experimentation--but I do remove all submerged leaves and change the water every day until they’re potted, lest the cut ends start rotting. When I moved from my zone 7b-8 house to zone 7a (North Carolina in the US), I took a dozen cuttings, all above the “Y”, from my beloved 8-year-old, 12 ft tall B. “Dr Seuss” and potted them up to take with me. They grew fast over winter with a little window light in my basement, and I kept removing the largest leaves. In spring I planted two in the ground, and gave the rest away to my new neighbors. Mine grew to 5 feet tall and wide that first summer with regular water and fertilizer, and bloomed beautifully. (I even got my first-ever seed pod--not that I need it, as I prefer to grow from cuttings even if it’s a bit of a winter chore.) My friends and neighbors marvel that their gifts produced big plants with blooms all summer too--one friend kept hers in a pot, moved it indoors before the frost, and still has flowers now, in December! I always cut down my in-ground plants after the frost kills them, leaving 3-6 inches of “bones” so I can see where it is for next year--covered with several inches of mulch. Meanwhile, in case we get a hard winter that kills my in-ground plants, I have plenty of babies to plant in their place!
Hi Olga. I live in Ohio and our winters are very severe just like yours are in Michigan. No the plant will not survive the winter because it's a tropical plant. But if you want the plant to grow again next year just take cuttings like he's showing in the video. My friends and I have done this all the time and it works out wonderfully.
@@lilianc5792 they do survive in Ohio. You need to cut them back like he showed you, dig up root ball and place in container. I put them in basement where it's 50° at least, sparingly using water. Then about Aprila remove grom basement to outside. Keep in container about one month. Water more frequently and feed. Replace in ground when no fear of frost.
My grandmother just gave me cutting from hers and they've started rooting in her bucket of water. After this next cool snap gets outta here I'll then plant them in my garden. She also gave me a butterfly bush and its doing great brings in lost of butterflies and humming birds plus humming bird moths. I live in. Seneca South Carolina the weather has been crazy cold and its nearly May. Thanks for sharing your video with all of us💚❤💛💙💜
Cheers Craig. Cool info. My first year growing Brugmansia. Seeing your stuff has made me wanna try some cuttings. And also move my plant next year fron the pot to into the ground!. Cheers
I rooted my plants in clear plastic cups. They have done very well but now it’s time to put them in big pots. Where do you store these pots till it’s time to plant them in the ground? It is in the 30’s here. When do you plant them in the ground? I got these trimmings from my mama’s yard. She passed last January 3. She loved her angel trumpets very much.
Beautifully explained dear, can you share its medicinal use and importance... it will great help to human kind...Greetings from Pushpendra, Jabalpur India.
Hello, thank you for this great video, just a question when you have rooted your cuttings where do you keep them throughout the winter, may greenhouse is not heated and I am not sure they will survive. Do I have to keep them indoors? Many thanks
Great video. Thanks. Nicely paced and helpful. I grow Brugmansias and all things Solanaceae up in Northumberland. Not realistic up here to plant outside - too cold but successful in a polytunnel. Good to meet a fellow fan. Thanks.
I tried some cutting in Oct of this year and is now towards the end of Nov don’t see any roots yet but I don’t have the water all the way up the jar so just changed the water and added some peroxide to the water and brought them in my laundry room as my garage is about 50 degrees maybe to go for them to root
How close to the trunk/main stalk of the tree do you cut off your branch to use for this project? Right where the branch meets the tree or a few inches out?
I just received 5 different cuttings in the mail, all have been put in the garden. Can you plant cuttings of different colored varieties together so you get a multicolored bush/tree?
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Hi! I have a 2 months old brugmansia grown from cuttings and it's already blooming! In spring I'd like it to plant it in the ground but I have some concerns about winter temperatures (I live in the south of Italy and during winter temperature rarely goes under 0C and when it does it reaches at max -1/-2). Do you grow your brugmansias in the ground? If yes how do you cope with winter temperatures? What do you think is their temperature hardiness? Thank you in advance your garden is so inspiring to me
Thanks for your kind words. The climate on my garden is very similar to yours. This year I am leaving one of my plants outside and planted in the ground as a bit of an experiment. I have taken cuttings as a backup just in case it doesn’t make it through the winter. I’ve made a second video on overwintering these plants, feel free to check it out 👍🌱
I have one about 5 years old. I feed it 3x week with Bloom Booster. now, I have a lot of blooms at the bottom of the plant and only on one side............. ( ?? )
What a great video,I took a few cutting from my plants last oct I have green leaves growing on the plant but no roots growing but I had them in my cold garage should I bring in the house would that be better
After getting the plant out of the glass with its developed roots and put in a small pot, do you have the pot in shade or sun? Do you water or not? I put them in water today
My brug was started from a cutting about a foot long many years ago. It is now about 7 ft tall...... BUT has only bloomed once. I give it miracle grow freq, and water. The plant itself looks good and healthy. I the summer I move the pot outside in the sun. What do I need to do to get bloom
Thanks Craig....im just getting into angel trumpets in the USA in the state of TN.....i have one that is now 3 feet tall and 7 others are smaller. I water them every day and have been using chicken manure tea and potted them with a nix of compost sand and peat moss to hold water....so far mine are doing great and I'll put them in the greenhouse to over winter.....
@@GrowParadise not a forest but a midnight garden of both good and evil ...every plant in that smells wonderful has beautiful blooms but is either a medicinal like foxgloves (digitalis) or deadly poisonious like my curare vine....
I bought two Angel Wings this past late Summer on sale put them in a dark place watered them only twice. It is now mid February took them out watered them and put them into the light. I can say they are not dead.
Hi there! Super helpful as I've had Brugs for years. One question. I live in Seattle. After rooting in water and potting in started pots should I keep inside for winter?
My first cutting was just potted in a little styrofoam cup after it had rooted. I kept it in the house because we have very severe weather in the winter, in Ohio. Is winter progressed and went into spring I kept putting it in a bigger pot giving the roots more room to spread and it had grown quite a bit probably a good 3 ft. Then in the summer I brought it outside and it did wonderfully in a nice big pot. This year I followed the same steps, however I forgot to put the plant on top of a flat stone when I put it in one of my flower beds and it had rooted itself into the soil. Lol.
I've taken lots of cuttings and put in water but they have all rotted without rooting - I did change the water - only a few left - any tips how to save them - they are on a south facing windowsill in back bedroom thanks Wayne
Hi Wayne, sometimes I have the same issue. I think it occurs most when I overcrowd the jar, when there are less sticks it seems much less likely to rot.
@@GrowParadise oh ok, also I had a question is it ok to root by brugmansia cutting outside or will the cold ruin it? I’ve heard people say a windowsill is best but I don’t really want to bring it inside. Although I also have a mini greenhouse outside would this work for giving it sun and managing temp, while it roots in a bottle of water.
thank you so much ! Your share is so great> I wish I could show you my angel trumpet that somehow I was able to raise up from a wee lil thing. I will propagate it and continue to share the love of it as you have here.
How thick were your cuttings? I have cuttings of various thickness and found the thinner ones rotted versus the thicker and more woody cutting rather than soft green cuttings.
Hi there, I have planted 1 cutting of brugmansia last spring gifted by a friend of mine then in last July I took 10 cuttings from my plant. All are matured. This spring I have plan to grow it commercially. I have yellow color and looking for other colors. Really I love this plant and fragrance of the flowers.
Hi craig. Its beautiful. I like the way the flowers are spread out rather than clumped together and the colour is lovely. Does it have a name/variety ?
Great video. I just got one plant-stick, and as soon as replanted it, took off like crazy. It’s absolutely beautiful 💕💕💕. Thank you. 🙏🏻🇺🇦🌍👍❤️💕🌿☮️🕉💓💚🍀🌻🌼🌏💜🌎
Many thanks for your very informative video. Both of my brugansia plants have done really well. Soo pleased. I’m in UK , which month woukd be best for taking cuttings.? Kind regards
I'd like to know how to take cuttings successfully from the orangey yellow brugmansia from S America - which I have growing in my back yard in NZ. These brugmansia need specialised humming birds pollinate them.
im so confused. isn't it one of the most poisonous plants in the world ? Why are u using your bare hands ? and you're in close contacts with the flowers and touching the leaves? With all due respect, do you know what ur doing ?
@@sergiomarquina4553 Exactly ! And here i am trying to provide him with facts, which he can't deny. Endorsing this behaviour on youtube is dangerous. And he defends himself by asking me if he says he's endorsing this in the video. He's obviously not educated about the topic that he wants to discuss and unable to accept criticism or explain his rationale well enough. A normal person would post another video to discuss the dangers and address his original video and apologise. Perhaps that would give him more views. But no. He argues like a child.
Unless you eat it, make tea with the leaves or rub them on your face you’ll be fine. My dog and cats ignore it , when I handle it (or any other plant) I just wash my hands as I always do. If your skin is sensitive always wear gloves no matter what plants you handle. No need to be rude🤷♀️
@@meganhuggins7494 I'm sorry, Megan. I thought I was replying with all due respect. Are you saying i was being rude? And i disagree with what you just said, because what you are saying does not agree with all the other scientific articles that is published. You do not need to touch it at all to be harmed by Brugmansias. Being under that tree itself can be harmless. And it's not about having sensitive skin either. I would politely ask you to check your facts. Because if you do, you can verify easily online that what you said is wrong. THanks.
I have many in SW Florida. They're slow growers and great for zero landscaping. Plant them in FULL sun and water them sparingly. Oh, and check out Pachypodium lamerei. They are even cooler, but be careful. Good luck!
Hi! Aren't these plants toxic? I have a few on a property that are huge and need to be trimmed. I am thinking of removing them all for fear of toxicity. please help. I need more information.
PERFECT TIMING… came across your video and actually just did this after watching, then subscribing to your channel. I have one cutting just now in water for rooting, first time trying this method with the Angel trumpet. Hoping for a good success. Thanks for sharing your knowledge about these beautiful flowers. Peace and Love always ❤️
Just took my cuttings two days ago, this is very helpful because I only had the ends in water, plus I have taken enough leaves off, thank you very much 😊
So, I am not sure when I should cut my Brugmansia. Should I wait until the first frost hits it? I'm up in the Northeast (zone 6b) and the nights are going to drop down to around 45f. It's blooming like a banshee right now. I want the best chance for the cuttings to root in water during the winter down in my basement. Any help is greatly appreciated as always. Thanks!
Hello, about to start my journey growing Brugmansia ....a question if i may do you leave them out over winter as in the video thats one big plant tia tony
I have left the really big one outside, it’s been down to -4•C but it’s too early to tell if it’s died. This is the first time I have left one outside 🤞🤞🤞🤞🌱 I have an overwintering video for Brugmansia too, check it out and hopefully that will help 👍
