Morning Glories: Last year's crosses, this year's vines/blooms!, 1 by beckygardener

beckygardener wrote:
Sydney - Your temps are right up my alley. Not too cold and not too hot. I agree with Shawna ... better watch out ... you may have lots of new neighbors! LOL! The city I live in used to be called the best kept secret. It used to be a quiet fishing town. Lots of beautiful land that was once cheap to purchase. Not any more! :-(

Okay ... I have had an interesting development on my NOID vine.

As usual it had lots of blooms. But the pollen production ceased the minute the weather turned warm again. So that kinda confuses me. Did it stop because of the I. purpurea gene? I. purpurea like cooler weather. Or did is start producing pollen because the weather got colder ... perhaps it thought that winter was coming and thus began to get serious about self-pollination and seed production?

The cultivar Youjiro Yaguruma and this NOID have similar characterists and behavior. I had the same weird seed issue last year when I grew the daddy vine. I really was afraid I wasn't going to get any seeds at all, but as the weather cooled, it did produce seeds. So maybe I just answered my own question? Or maybe it is much more complicated than that?

Also ... here is the exciting thing that I observed this morning ...
The white edge completely disappeared on one of the blooms. I saw it immediately because it looked so bizzare compared to the rest of the blooms! This vine never ceases to entertain and amaze me! I just love it!!! What other plants produce such a wide variety of flowers? Not too many that I am aware of. Nothing predictable about this vine! I love surprises every morning. Here is the unusual bloom. (I never saw this happen on the YB last year. It always had at least a thin white edge if my memory serves me correctly.)





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