Morning Glories: Morning Glorys 2005 #17, 1 by WillowWasp

WillowWasp wrote:
I must say in the past few years I have learned not to put a lot of stock in the Labels on the Packages of seed we are getting. I am figuring we have about a 60/40 chance of getting what we though we were this year. But this year seems to be worst than any year before with the mislabeling of seed packets....I might have 60/40 reversed and so many of mine I lost and never saw a bloom so it could be worse than that. I know at first I thought I was the culprit and had not paid enough attention to my seed but I see so many others that are not getting what they though they planted.........

The Japanese Seed Companies make mistakes in packaging just as much as Burpee or Parks or who ever is selling and I think they are making more now then in the years past. I also wonder when you buy from several seed companies in Japan are we buying the same flower under another name?...... The seed packets below are examples from two different companies....and I have had flowers on the same vine that would have had differences such as this. Soooo....Give this some thought... we have no recourse when we are sent the wrong seed, since they are from another county what are we gonna do about it. We can only take the word of who printed the package and hope they are right. Then we question our own sanity when we have so many flowers that look the same or sooo close to the same with different names. And I have thought "Man How Many Packets of this Did I Buy?" I think what we need to do is try to keep as much as we can pure and sort out what’s what and go from there on our own. There are many of us that are serious about growing these we should be able to good job even without a degree in Botany.............LOL.............

Anyway the Photo Ron is referring to is Suigetsu and it was taken later in the day I would say around 11:00 or 12:00 noon. When the flower opens it is almost white throated and just had a hint of yellow. The yellow really gets dark as the day progressed and the flowers Blue darkens in the heat.

http://davesgarden.com/forums/t/537077/

I don't know about your seed packets but if you look at them (and it is not showing up here) you can see a yellow cast in the throat.....I am looking at mine and I can see it is there on both packets. Also the blue of the flowers look a lot different in the photos of the package, when grown and flowering here they were just about the same shade of blue....and some did stay lighter and some darkened depending on where the flower was growing in shade or sun............. So go figure.....
All I can say is just keep growing and we will figure this all out...