Morning Glories: Becky's garden - Summer 2010, 1 by beckygardener

beckygardener wrote:
Well, thought I would post the 4 vines of the Blue Speckles (F2) that came from my summer vine. Out of 15 seeds, only 4 germinated. I also tried to start some indoors recently and neither of them germinated either. So ... I won't be sharing seeds of this mutant this year it appears. :-(

But I thought I would show you what the 4 seedlings look like. They had dropped all their leaves (except the cactus gene plant) and as you can now see, have regrown new leaves and are starting to bloom again. One has a bloom today. It was white with blue speckles on the outer edge of the flower. The bloom didn't open all the way because of the rain, so I didn't bother to take a photo.

These all came from the same parent vine. I did not cross any of the blooms on that vine either. This has been the most difficult seeds to germinate, but it has almost been the most interesting F2 seeds I've ever grown. Take a look at how different the vines and/or the blooms are. Two of the vines look very similar, but the blooms are quite different. One has the speckles on the bloom and the other produces an off-white solid color bloom. The cactus has the speckles too. The one with the densely variegated leaves has not bloomed yet. I am interested to see what the blooms look like on that one! They all look so different that it is hard to believe they all came from the same parents! LOL! Sorta like me and my siblings. We look like a Heinz 57 ... mutts! A little of everything, but none matching! LOL!