Morning Glories: How early can I start MG's?, 1 by Gourd

Gourd wrote:
All everyone has said above is good info. I have been growing them in pots and they have not done too well the last two years. Next season I am trying to plant them in the ground.

Only one thing that is working for me in transplanting is this. I use the plastic clear solo cups with seed starting soil and wait till the seedlings have just about fully filled the cup up with roots (you can see thru the cup) and just loosen the soil a little by squeezing the cup all around. The plants come out very easy and have their own rootball, so the roots do not get disturbed at all. I have not lost a single one and I start about 100 varieties each year. Then, like a fool, I transplant them into bigger pots.

Like I said, this coming year will be different, they will all be transplanted into the ground. They do much better there. You can also plant every other month too in our climate to keep the blooms going, some of mine even bloom during December (the ones that reseed themselves), very strange. I hope this info helps someone, I do start them indoors in January and they are really ready to put out by April. Nick and soak some of the hardshelled seeds and just soak the softer seeds to give them a headstart, they usually germinate in three or four days.

some of the pots from this year, photo from sometime in April/May I believe. Had over 100 pots by the time I finished and basically none are really doing too well in there.

Antoinette