Brugmansia "Jacayna"

Jacayna is a very interesting Brug. The plant is stout and a very vigorous grower. Leaves are ovate, wide and a tad serrated. Cuttings root very easily. Nice, strong fragrance. All are fine qualities. The flower, however,  is  unusual with it's wide, pink-yellow-white colored corolla that sometimes sports seven distinctive corolla teeth. She's obviously got a distinctive suavoleans look about her, yet there's something indefinable about what's lurking in her genes.

How To Collect And Store Pollen

After you've studied the Brugmansia Family Tree and set up your cross-pollination filing system for organizing your crosses, its time to begin collecting a variety of pollens for your hybridizing arsenal. An effective and efficient program depends on having pollens available when you need them. Plants tend to bloom in staggered flushes, so oftentimes flowers with pollens you wish to use as pollen donors simply aren't in bloom. When this happens, you have a missed opportunity and may well lose a season of seed production. 

Plan Your Hybridizing Program 

If you've been growing Brugmansia for a while and are visiting the various Brugmansia websites and forums, you've had a chance to see some of the new cultivars being produced by home gardeners like yourself. Creating new cultivars is a very exciting adventure, but new plants don't arrive on the scene without some pre-planning and organization.

Proper Soil Mix For Growing Brugmansia

One of the most important requirements for Brugmansia propagation and growth is a proper soil mix. Whether you're propagating cuttings, placing your plants in containers or putting them in-ground, the soil environment you provide for them will determine the quality and longevity of your plants.

Propagating Brugmansia Via Air Layering

If you've been a good parent to your Brugmansia plants, they've grown tall and have produced many flushes of beautiful, sweet smelling blooms. You're a success! Now, after reading all about this hybridizing stuff, you're interested in starting your own hybridizing program. You've studied the Brugmansia cultivar history, you have some ideas about what kind of results you'de like to acheive and you've selected the Brugs you want to use for setting pods. There's only one problem. You can't reach the flowers! They're up there, and you're down here! The solution to the problem is air layering.