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Last season I ramped up my brugmansia hybridizing efforts using brugmansias with mutant and deeply serrated foliage.  The results of those...

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After a nearly five year hiatus, Fred's Garden Blog is back! Now you can enjoy and experience the gardening exploits and adventures of Fred in his quest to hybridize brugmansia and keep his jungle and nursery under control.

Sommer Gardens / Wednesday, October 12, 2011 / Categories: Brugmansia, Seedlings

Brugmansia Angel's Exotic x Inca Sun

I have been watching this new Angel Trumpet seedling bloom throughout the summer and now I need to decide if I should keep it.  It is from a cross I made between Brugmansia Angel's Exotic x Inca Sun.

angelsexoticxincasun2-1.jpgI think I'll at least keep this one through the winter to see what the color does during the cooler weather.  So far it has stayed a cream color, but the cooler weather may bring out a slight apricot hue.

Deciding which seedlings to keep is one of the toughest parts of plant hybridizing.  I'll soon need to discard hundreds and hundreds of plants before winter in order to make room for new seedlings from my recent crosses.  I plan to chop a bunch up for cuttings and give them away to members of iBrugs and I may also carry a few of the best ones over to sell as NOIDS (no id) at a spring plant show. 
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