Morning Glories: hand pollinating morning glories - Selfing bagging and tying, 1 by gardener2005

gardener2005 wrote:
My last picture of the tied bloom didn`t show. Here it is. :)

In a day or so the flower will dry and the yarn and remains of the flower will fall off on its own. You need the yarns tied on the stems so you can come back and look the for the little green swelling inside the stamens left behind which is the beginning of a pod of seeds. If you see a little green swelling then your pod "took" and you have seeds on the way. You collect the fallen yarns and either throw them in the trash or sometimes I "recycle" them using them to tie stems for ID and fresh yarns to tie the tips of new about to open flowers.

It takes about 30 days or so for pods to mature. You simply keep an eye on them checking by every week or so until they turn brown and papery looking which indicates that they are ready to harvest. Don`t wait too long or the ripened pod will break open and spill your seeds on the ground.



This message was edited Jun 8, 2007 2:22 PM