Morning Glories: ACK!!! Horrible, horrible blunder !!!, 1 by beckygardener

beckygardener wrote:
OMG! I have made a horrible mistake!

WARNING: The nature of this post may not be suitable for reading by those who grow, care for, and love morning glories!

I have made a horrible, horrible, HORRIBLE mistake!!! One of those kind that you wish you could do a rewind to prevent ...

I was outside earlier cleaning out my little waterfall/pond. And then decided to water some of my MG vines while I was out there. I have rain water in a cleaned out milk jug, so proceeded to water several of my table-top potted MGs. You know the ones ... Chinese Evening Glory, Alamo Vine, False Japanese Bindwind, and a couple of others as well as 6 in-the-ground MGs along my picket fence. They looked a little wilted so figured I was out there, might as well give them each a much needed drink.

I decided to go get the hose and just water all of them. Pulled the hose around and stopped to decide which end of the picket fence to start with and got this strong ... and I mean really strong whiff of bleach. I am thinking ... I only put a small capful of bleach in the waterfall, why is the smell so strong? And then I had this sudden flash of horror! I looked over to the patio and saw the gallon jug I had just put down ... YEP! YOU guessed it! I had watered my MGs with pure bleach. Right out of the Chlorox bottle!!! ACKKKKKKKKKKK!!! Not diluted, but pure toxin, watering at least 10 plants around the soil/roots with BLEACH!!!

I am thinking! OMG, is there anything I can do??? I just killed ... no MURDERED my precious MG plants! And these were some of my "special" ones! My personal PRIZE vines! No! ... it couldn't have been the ones I've already collected seeds from that are dying anyway ... NO! It was my precious few that I have been taking such good care of. I got that sick feeling in my stomach ... you know that feeling ...

I looked down at the hose nozzle in my hand and thought, "I gotta DILUTE the bleach!" ... so I took the hose and literally blasted the soil and even a few MG roots right out of the pots and ground. I I just kept flushing the roots with water as all the soil was overflowed out of the pots and the ground concrete rings! When I got finished, you could see bare roots, no soil! LOL! So I added more potting soil back in and watered them again really good. So ...

I am holding on to the rare hope that I haven't murdered my vines! I don't know how long it will take to see my vines suddenly start to die. But if Mother Nature and God above has any mercy on me, these vines will somehow survive what I just did to them!

I keep looking out the french doors at the ones on the table in pots expecting to see drooping vines and leaves. So far, not yet. Maybe later today? Maybe tomorrow? Maybe in a week? I don't know. All I know is that I was not paying attention to what I was doing, got side tracked, and when I resumed, I picked up the wrong dang gallon jug! HOW STUPID CAN ONE BE??? Pretty stupid apparently! The label is right on the Chlorox jug and I didn't even notice it!! Not good. Game over! ACKKKK!

(Sigh)

BTW - Screaming woman image came from Martiza Writes website: http://maritzawrites.com/blog/?p=123 She is a hoot! I need a good laugh right this minute. Think I will go over to her website and get a few chuckles ... and then go grocery shopping. (Oh joy! NOT!) I can NOT stand the fact that the MGs are out there staring back at me through the french doors asking me, "Mommy? Why did you do that to me? I just wanted a drink of water!" , as their little roots, stems and leaves give a huge sigh as they struggle to recover (if ever) ...

I hope I am not the only one to do something so STUPID. Anyone want to make me feel better and share your own blunder? I doubt anyone can top this! (Rolling my eyes in disgrace ...)

This message was edited Jun 28, 2009 1:02 PM