A beautiful sight for New Years Day...

Even after all the havoc that our hailstorm made in last month for the Brugs, they persisted and forced a bloom flush or two. This was the best thing to wake up to on New Years Day!

Recovering fully from the hailstorm, this arborea is still blooming and more buds developing. Love the winter for this super fragrant one..


 

As a follow up to the last post, the question of the day is:

"How many pods can you count ?"

Posted By greenfinger on 20 Feb 2012 08:14 AM
like that one too! each flower a pod????????

It appears that about 50% of the flowers have a seed pod. There were a few that I tried crossing, but it seems on every attempt I was too late as the pollen was already ripe even when the flower was still closed, so my attempts are all invalid, and as I mentioned that in the future should I even attempt using this one as a pod parent, I will be destroying a very underdeveloped corolla like Datura requires.

This one has not stopped blooming since even before new years, and it shows no signs of stopping or slowing down it's bloom cycles. There's always been at least 5 or more open flowers on the tree since then.

Posted By RJ on 19 Feb 2012 10:12 PM
What Arborea cross did you have? I think you might find this one to weather through the summer there well, as long as you can let it go pretty much bone dry before watering. I think that's what has kept this one so robust and strong.

I prchased mine from JT.  I'm sure the death of mine was from too much water and once it started to go, it went quick.  In the summer, my brugs get watered automatically every day and then add our potential for daily rain on top of that and you can see why.  I did pot it up in a 50/50 peat perlite mix to help with drainage. 

I think my next one will have a better chance because I can now grow in under shade cloth which will cool the roots down.

Thanks Maristella et al.. The fuzziness is alway nice to feel as an added feature to the incredible fragrance that this particular Arborea emits. This plant has given me much pleasure over the entire winter, blooming when just about no other Brug was blooming..

@Shaun, good luck with the Sang. It grew very well for me up in Northern California, but they do terrible down in SoCal in the summertime, unless you live literally on the beach.

So far, I haven't seen any of the pods fall off, and I have more than 10 of them bigger than my thumb, and another 10-15 that are almost as big as a chicken egg, so that's pretty much a sign they'll hold till mature. I guess I should keep a watch though, because I remember before, that Arborea pods fall like Avocadoes when they're ripe.

.....and through all of this, still blooming so perfectly stunning!

3/15/12 UPDATE:

Seed Pods developing very nicely...and this is just the pods on ONE branch.

Also, NO sign of slowing down blooming in spite of this many months of solid blooms, plus so many seed pods. I know the species group would have long ceased if it had this many pods.