Loving This New Angels Trumpet!

Oh, did they open yet? No, not yet. Close, they're getting really close. I bet those will pop open tonight. Hey, what's up, garden friends? Jeff here, hope you're doing well. I'm great. Look at that Brugmansia, Angel Trumpet. Isn't it awesome? This plant was only about, I don't know, maybe two feet tall, no, wait. This is my, oh goodness, you guys, you're still there? I'm so sorry. Sorry. Yeah, sorry about that. This is just a little twig. Actually, when I got this last year, it was a cutting, maybe eight inches high or so, and well now it's up there. It's a good seven feet tall. They grow quickly. They grow very, very, very quickly. I have another one over here that's looking pretty bad. I thought something was wrong with it, but it turns out the irrigation had been turned off by the HVAC people. I have drip up on everything over here. This poor thing just was not loving life and I was like well something's wrong with it and then I realized oh no it just it hasn't been watered. Duh. Shouldn't have been that hard to figure that one out but here we are figured it out so it's gonna recover. Same deal except that was in a 10-inch pot when I got it. Grew to be that big in just one season. Now it's nearly double that size. In fact, I think I should move it, put it over there with that one and really get some size on it. We still have some time left this year. By the time this video comes out, there won't be that much time left. Right now it's, you know, late August. I feel like all my videos late with me saying, it's late August. You get to be seeing that into probably October at this point going, what the heck? Listen, we had a nice cool week. The weather's been really pleasant and I was like, let's just go ahead and just do all kinds of chores and film and have a good time with it. So that's what I've been doing over here. I have a trough full of dirt, not the point of this video, I wanted to pot this guy up and show it to you. Isn't that beautiful? Absolutely stunning plant. This is the snowbank, Brugmansia snowbank. Has a light peach colored flower on it and very gorgeous variegation on those leaves. So I've had this one for a while. I mean, not a long time, about a month. I wanted to wait to talk about it because I wanted to sort some things out with the variegation and how it needs to be taken care of. You got whitefly and aphid on you. That's par for the course with the Brugmansia. I feel like they always have something on them. So another thing I like about them is that in the fall, I just let them drop their leaves. They just have sticks. So when bugs show up on them, I just take a sponge that has some neem or insecticide soap and I just rub the stems down and all that. Rub them down in all the directions, get them nice and wet, and it usually takes care of that problem. So if they have some pests on right now, don't matter, these leaves will be off them in a few weeks when they're inside the snowbank. Isn't it just beautiful? So same thing, lots of vigor. The Snowbank, I don't believe, it doesn't get as big. I don't know what they have to say about it, but I know Plant Delight says it stays smaller, six feet high by four feet wide. And Brugmansias do have a wide range on height. So it's something to look at. Do your research when you buy them because there are some that get huge, small trees. And there are some that only get a few feet tall. They're a Terranova plant, Terranova, they come out with some awesome hybrids, and they say, Plant Delights, I just went on double check the height on it, most sites are saying 60 inches tall, so what do we get about 5 feet tall, so that's a little guy. It's a tetraploid version of the Brugmansia Sunset. Which is another absolutely beautiful one. And technically, I didn't even realize this, it is a tricolor variegation. Which maybe that's why I'm so drawn to it. I love a tricolor variegation, especially when the third color is just a lighter green or a silver. When it's yellow, not so much. The new growth does come out with some yellow on it. But you can see it ages out with a nice creamy white to light green color. Not a lot of plants that grow very, very fast like these do that have this kind of a variegation on them. They remind me a lot of the variegated Ficus Lyrata. Have you seen those? Those are pretty cool plants, but they're a nightmare to grow. These right here, they may get some scorch. They're variegated, so expect them to grow a little bit more slowly because they don't have quite as much chlorophyll in their foliage and also probably not going to get as big, which we already know. It says 60 inches. Well, the tag says 60, but everybody else says 60 inches and maybe some slower growth, you know. So it might scorch, be more prone to some burn. So, just going to make sure this doesn't get quite as much afternoon sun. The reason I've been holding on to this one was because I really want to see what I can do with it sun-wise. And it can take a lot. First several days I had it, I just had it sitting on the patio over there by a heliconia. This patio gets very hot. It was fine. Absolutely fine. Had a little bit of afternoon shade, but not much. And then I realized that I hadn't filmed the plant yet, so I should probably show you guys what it looks like before risking scorching the poor thing. And I pulled it out of there, moved it over here where it's still getting basically a full day's sun, and it just didn't really skip a beat. A little bit of scorch on there. We're gonna have some triple digit temperatures coming up here soon. Soon. With that, wanna make sure that they're not sitting out in the sun all day long. I'm gonna go ahead and pop this into a bigger container. This probably seems like a pretty dramatic step up, because it is. But if there's any plant that you can bump up into too large of a container, not too large, but move it up multiple sizes, it's an angel's trumpet. I'm just using a well-drained potting mix. This is Pro-Mix. That's what they want. They want some nice, sharp drainage. It's probably way too much soil. But I'll dump some of that out when I work this root ball into the container. Now, there are different ways you can overwinter your Brugmansias. I talked about how I basically just pull them in, let them dry out, they lose their foliage, and that's really all there is to it. But I do know some people just cut a few canes off in the fall and then just stick them in a pot of some damp peat, and that's it. Then they pull them back out in the springtime and re-root them and just start their plants over. I suppose you could do that, since they will grow a few feet in one year, so if there ever was a plant where you could just go ahead and take some sticks off of them, I guess that would be with a Brugmansia, maybe not this variegated one, it doesn't get as big. Let's see here, that's probably about right, and get it centered. This is a big upgrade, so I do want to make sure this pot, its root ball that is, is centered. It's going to grow in looking really weird and wonky. If it's not, probably add some more soil in there too. So I guess these are such vigorous growers. That's why I'm not worried about putting into a container that's so, so, so big. It should be totally fine. This potting method, ow, I'm sharpening that potting mix. This potting method doesn't always work with the Pro-Mix because it's such a loose blend. Sometimes the soil just fills back in. Yeah, it fills in a little bit there, but that's okay. That's totally fine. I do have that down low for a reason because I want to be able to give this heavy drinks. It's that water flowing off the top, so I like to have a nice one to two inch well. And this is, I mean, it has so much room for root growth, it's fine for it to have a big gap in there like that. That's not gonna hurt anything. I can't wait to see what this looks like next year. I mean, this year, it looks beautiful. Just imagine, when this is five feet tall, it's gonna be stunning. Give that plenty of water. This is an ideal time to do this. This is what I'm going to say, it's going to be very contradictory. It's good timing because we're about to have this heat dome move in. It's only 81 degrees right now, but tomorrow it's supposed to be 94. Then we're supposed to be in the upper 90s, maybe hit 100 degrees for the next like 7 to 10 days. It's supposed to be really hot. It's supposed to be very hot for a while. And we're supposed to have to water this a whole bunch in that small container. I didn't have to do any pulling or anything on the roots. You saw that, right? If I had to do any damage to the roots, I would just say, let's skip this, put it back in that pot and wait a week for things to cool back off. But as it is right now... That's just more moisture holding capacity, which should make for much happier and healthier easier to grow plant It'll be good in that pot until let's say midsummer next year I don't expect this to do much of anything this year Maybe it'll grow another foot or so because these do they respond very well to being repotted They'll sit around and do absolutely nothing for like three to four weeks and then all of a sudden just boom Grow like insanity so it might put on another foot maybe this year. We will see probably not. I'm not counting on it Right now I'm just happy with how pretty this is. It's such a beautiful plant. I wish all of them were variegated, wouldn't that be fun? Giant variegated leaves. We need magnolias that look like this. How cool would that be? Well there are variegated magnolias but they're pretty much impossible to get your hands on so I'm thinking that there's probably something wrong with them. Could you imagine that though? Like on a 30-40 foot tall tree? It'd be so cool. It might be a bit much. That's getting... A little bit large with the unnaturalness. It's not unnatural. Variegation's a natural thing. Just not natural in the sense of survival. You know, okay. We've deviated. Hey, I hope everybody's doing well. What do you have to offer? What do you have to say? Add to the conversation about the angel's trumpets. What do you do to overwinter yours? Are they hardy where you live? These are good into zone 7B. Generally, maybe 7a if you have a really warm spot for them, they're actually pretty cold tolerant. I keep them inside It's just the easiest thing to do. I don't think they would do well outdoors here even though we're technically 7a Favorite types you grow, do you like to prop them? They're real fun to propagate you can you know that one I have over there I could cut that into a whole bunch of different sticks and give them away to people next year It's a good time. Things you can just divide. They're like plumerias, but without all the drama. Plumerias are actually pretty easy. They don't really have a lot of drama. These are just easier to get going with their flowers and not as much guesswork when it comes to when to start watering them when you've had them dormant for a while. All right, hey. Hope everybody's doing well. Have a great day, great night. I'm just going absolutely beautifully for you. And of course, as always, and most importantly, everybody, keep on growing, hey, Turbo. Bye. Bye.