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Windy wrote:
I grew a morning glory in a pot over the summer and brought it in after I thought the frost had killed it. I just wanted to see if the plant might still be alive. I have it in the birdroom so I never shut the blinds. They are on daylight hours and not artificial light normally.
It surprised me when it started to get leaves growing from the woody base. Then I left it just do its thing. This is an old picture from January. It flowers and I pollinate the flower with a little stick I swish around in the flower. The pods have swollen, so I suppose the pollination was successful.
I know where I can get a fritillary butterfly crysallis to open in there, to pollinate for me. LOL But I am afraid it might find its way into a bird's mouth so will leave it to open in spring. Not sure what kind of MG this is. It has a woody base that is about seven inches or so out of the soil and the new leaves came from this. It has since sent out another "branch" and has grown around the window blinds. Quite a nice sight to see in the dead of winter here.
I feed it a rose food made for all flowering plants. I know mg's like plain soil to give flowers, but this is a flower fertilizer type.