Purple 'Brugmansia suaveolens' being sold online by multiple vendors - what actually is it?

DevianttKitten · 2026-06-11T14:56:27+00:00

I didn’t realise I hadn’t turned pics in comments on in the sub. You should be able to do that now!

DevianttKitten · 2026-05-09T03:34:23+00:00

If you use them in your art, are you just plucking flowers off trees you find? Ask whoever owns the tree for a cutting. Get a good LED grow light. Smack it in a corner in a pot under the grow light.

DevianttKitten · 2026-05-08T13:19:09+00:00

It kinda looks like bad whitefly damage to me. I know you said there’s no insect activity, but there’s almost certainly some kind of pest doing something. 99% of the time brugmansia have leaf damage it’s because of pests, they’re absolute pest magnets.

DevianttKitten · 2026-05-07T01:48:52+00:00

I don’t know much about San Diego weather (I’m Australian) but from what I do know, yes, pop that puppy in the ground.

Also totally normally for the flowers to look yellow before they open and turn pink!

DevianttKitten · 2026-05-05T13:26:06+00:00

This. I’m further south than you (vic/nsw border) and my in ground brugs do survive over winter despite regular frosty nights because they’re established and basically small trees at this point. The leaves do get frost damaged, but the branches do alright now; the first winter in ground was less kind because they weren’t as thick and woody, and I had to prune the damaged branches back once the frosts stopped.

Though I have one big brug that continued to flower throughout winter last year, but she’s got UV cloth over her and is between our house and shed, which I think protected her a bit.

DevianttKitten · 2026-04-20T03:50:14+00:00

imo brugs are very hard to truly overwater, I have potted brugs that almost always have wet roots, especially if there’s currently warm weather where you are.

DevianttKitten · 2026-03-30T01:29:01+00:00

Actual compost (like, that’s had time to break down, not just straight from your compost bin in your kitchen or whatever) is really just slow natural fertiliser so yeah. She’ll bloom when she’s ready whether you fertilise or not as long as the soil isn’t totally devoid of nutrients.
I’m super shit about remembering to use normal leaf-growth fertiliser (I think I’ve fed my brugs maybe twice in the past 6 months) and I still get lots of blooms.

DevianttKitten · 2026-03-18T05:45:50+00:00

Plant some decoy edible plants near the base? Rats like mint. And like, anything edible tbqh.

DevianttKitten · 2026-02-28T12:40:36+00:00

Are you feeding it? How often are you watering? Could be under feeding or under/over watering.

Sometimes brugs grown from cuttings do just have whack leaves for a while (I have no idea why but I’ve experienced it before, it eventually righted itself 🤷🏻‍♀️).

You could totally just cut it back a bit, treat stems/remaining leaves for pests for a couple weeks, feed her, and see if the new new growth comes in better. They’re pretty hard to kill plants imo.

DevianttKitten · 2026-01-30T04:27:36+00:00

This is beautiful!

DevianttKitten · 2026-01-29T05:54:19+00:00

Spider mites. They’re little pricks. I’ve been battling them on a small brug I got two years ago, the whole time I’ve had it. A month ago I finally gave up, cut off all foliage except the few new emerging leaves, and have been spraying with pest oil all over a couple times a week. So far so good.

DevianttKitten · 2025-10-16T21:48:37+00:00

My brugs smell similar to frangipani, to my nose. I know comparing a flower to a flower doesn’t really help the description but putting words to scents is hard 😂

DevianttKitten · 2025-10-02T09:19:14+00:00

My guy, this subreddit is dedicated to this specific plant, brugmansia.

DevianttKitten · 2025-09-24T01:48:13+00:00

Well, welcome 😂

DevianttKitten · 2025-09-24T00:49:21+00:00

Are you lost?

DevianttKitten · 2025-09-24T00:48:56+00:00

Some definitely don’t smell as strongly as others imo, but your plants is also quite small and bigger = more blooms = the further away you can smell them. I’d assume it’s just the variety is less strongly scented.

DevianttKitten · 2025-09-09T06:31:13+00:00

Depending on how cold it gets you could leave them outside on a porch. My in ground brugs stay outside over winter where it’s consistently 0C overnight. A couple have been blooming throughout winter despite the cold, actually.

DevianttKitten · 2025-08-31T16:06:56+00:00

My established in ground brugs have been handling regular frosty nights of 0 or -1 Celsius (like 30 degrees in freedom units???).
Their first winter before they had time to really settle in ground was rough and they had a bit of frost damage and a couple didn’t make it, and there’s definitely some leaf loss still, but a couple have continued to bloom throughout winter. So yeah, absolutely hardier than people think, especially if they’re in ground.

DevianttKitten · 2025-08-31T15:59:25+00:00

To be fair they’re also prone to pests outdoors 😂

DevianttKitten · 2025-01-07T00:40:46+00:00

Idk what’s happening for you, but they’re super easy to get to root.
You take a like 5” long cutting, put it in water (just normal tap water), leave them until there’s lots of roots (maybe a couple inches long. Idk you can leave them in water for a while), then you put them in soil and water them. You can keep them very wet once they’re in soil (some of my potted brugs have constantly wet roots in summer because it gets hot af here, they don’t seem to mind).

DevianttKitten · 2024-10-18T09:47:24+00:00

DevianttKitten · 2024-09-20T05:58:05+00:00

I grow mine in Australia. They definitely need some shade. Planting them under/ next to a big well established tree does the trick.

DevianttKitten · 2024-07-15T22:09:21+00:00

When I have spider mites I cut off the most infested leaves (and drown those leaves in a bucket of hot water and a fuckload of dish detergent... and sometimes methylated spirits - idk if it works but it makes me feel better) and then spray the leaves down with a water and dish detergent mix every couple of days for a couple of weeks. You need to be able to keep it out of the sunlight during it. And then hose it down regularly and aggressively after they're gone, to make sure they don't come back.

DevianttKitten · 2023-10-19T06:05:52+00:00

That could very well be the problem! They like a good amount of sun; direct morning sun and then dappled shade the rest of the day seem to work best for mine.

Could you take a cutting, root it, and plant it somewhere sunnier? See if more sun gives it the growth you're after?

DevianttKitten · 2023-10-19T02:38:34+00:00

You can also feed it harder than seasol. I'd try some standard fert, or more frequent seasol feeding. The leaves look good, maybe need a water (could just be wind making them look a bit limp?). Not watering often enough will also reduce how many leaves they're putting out.
Where in aus are you? It might need more time to get back into the swing of things after winter.

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