I figured I would share my little projects with you all. These are from cuttings that I took last May that have grown like crazy this year. I wanted to see if I could turn this cutting into a tree with a single trunk. (Yes I know the Bougie needs some trimmin' )

I cut off the initial 'Y' bifurcation that you see here. This was in mid june.

This is an 8 foot garden spike for reference. I repotted it into a bigger pot here, in early July.

It was growing several inches per day until it quit to put all of its energy into these blooms ( I guess?). You can see some of its siblings in the foreground. I need to find homes for these ones--I''m running out of patio space.

This was early this morning. The Hydrangeas need some love, but the patio smells incredible with all of these Brugs blooming simultaneously.



I hope you all enjoy my little experiment. I will start a thread of all of my other brugs and how they have grown over the last year.

Billythekid....

Interesting tutorial, since I plan to do the same thing.

Question: Will flowering side branches sprout and develop from the section of trunk that was once a branch of the original "Y"? Now, it's trained and staked, and has become part of the "trunk", and it's sprouting flowers. I'm guessing: if you cut out the terminal, the mainstem will send out some flowering branches?

BTW....what cultivar are your growing, so successfully, according to all your pictures? What's your climate zone? I think I see some pink Bougainvillea growing near your Brug...so you must be in a warm-ish climate. If not....what will you do to overwinter your Brug?

Good luck, and thanks for the from-stick-to-flowers, montage. Remarkable progress for just one season!

Wishing you continued, good luck, and many more fragrant, dangling flowers.

Putting out good info. I love it when people find the time to share their experiences. Helps us all in the long run.