Indeed, caveat emptor, but there are folk on eBay who sell lots of Brugs - more chance of getting what you expect from them I reckon (than from someone who just sells the odd one).

Kristen wrote: I reckon named plants on eBay will be around 6 quid ... .

What I have seen sold as named plants on Ebay haven't always been 100% correct, in fact I wouldn't rely on the name bit at all.

Sounds all right, so long as it is a cutting taken from flowering wood, and not taken from immature wood. Best bet would be to buy one in flower, then you know the wood is mature :) That is the opposite of what I look for. :wink: Flowering wood will do just that, and not grow any height. A flowerin...

... local GC. How do you tell if the wood is mature would it be brown? these were green stems a round 1 1/2 cm's thick. They do have some more mature brugs there priced at £59.99 if i can remember rightly but don't hold me to that as i was looking at a lot of plants that day so may be getting mixed ...

Sounds all right, so long as it is a cutting taken from flowering wood, and not taken from immature wood. Best bet would be to buy one in flower, then you know the wood is mature :) Personally I would prefer to get a named variety, and now only grow Good Do'ers as although many have magnificent flow...

I can't wait to buy one of these this year from my local GC they sell them at £6 for a round 6 inch (15cm) cuttings. I missed out last year when i went back to get one they had all gone. :-( is £6 a good buy for a 15cm cutting, they had the colors of pink, yellow, white and one that produces half ye...

All mine inside still at full height and not showing signs of slowing down. The greenhouse is much warmer this year.

I thought sanguineas were difficult to root. Mine is in leaf (outside) but hasn't flowered since Dec 2012. If I could root it, perhaps the cutting would flower? And I could discard the hopeless non-flowering mother plant...

I root cut my Brugmansia sanguinea in December, and it's doing well, slow growth, but not much, it should take off nicely in summer.

I took my cutting about the same time . I am surprised it rooted down winter time .I have been giving it small amounts of water.

I just de-leaf them and stick in a glass of water. So have I, often as not get 100% failure rate. Tried Clonex & straight into compost, using 1litre squash bottles. Some aren't dead yet! I'm sure I get better results when the plants are in active leaf growth. Its frustrating. I took my 4 foot c...

I would wait - let someone else worry about keeping it alive, and healthy, in poor light and low temperatures. It will be much easier to overwinter next winter - when it is a year older

Dave Brown wrote:I just de-leaf them and stick in a glass of water.

So have I, often as not get 100% failure rate.
Tried Clonex & straight into compost, using 1litre squash bottles.
Some aren't dead yet!

I'm sure I get better results when the plants are in active leaf growth.

Its frustrating.

Some of my Brug cuttings have also taken over winter in the soil .And some of my Abutilon cuttings took .

Mine are struggling to leaf out, but they're outdoors like Nature intended plants (and humans) to be.