Winter 2010-2011: Growing plants under lights indoors! Pt 2

A neat color stripe on this other one from Antoinette.

Purple Speckles.

One of the Purple Speckles bloom up close.

This is one of Antoinette's crosses. It's also a speckled but the color is so different. I really like it a lot! Antoinette's crosses are always so interesting and unique. I am always delighted by what she sends me! Thanks, A!

Not sure what this one is. But it has a nice color and form!

Full Moon ... pale yellow bloom.

Pink Speckles with really lovely variegated leaves.

One of my crosses that I named Cinnamon.

NOID "black" from Colin.

Close up of one of the blooms.

Not sure what this one is either.

An interesting pale pink bloomer.

This smaller vine as been a constant bloomer! Love it!

It continues to produce these odd blooms.

Silver Wolf.

And the final photo is of Debra's Pandy putting on some nice leaves. Sweet caudex plant! Thanks again Debra for sharing this with me! :-)

Thanks everyone for the kind compliments! I hope it brightens your winter days and gets you mentally ready for Spring sowing and growing. According to the groundhog, Spring is on it's way!

Though some of you probably feel like you'd never know it considering the current cold front that many of you have been hit by! Stay safe and warm!

Off topic, but thought you'd enjoy these links.

Interesting information and photos from a weather center:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1353073/Winter-storm-Map-shows-Northern-Hemisphere-covered-snow-ice.html

Fascinating video: http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=9V9p4mFEYXc&vq=medium#t=15

Beautiful colors Becky.

Truly beautiful. The caudex plant you have from me is a PINK moon vine, Becky. I wish it were a Pandy LOL... It looks great tho.. ;D

Good looking flowers and sounds like you had good luck with the indoor growing. Keep pinching them and then put them into the 5 gallon buckets as soon as you can, I'll bet they will live a long time, I had a couple of I. nils that went on for almost 9 months.

I have one I. pandy left and it never went dormant, but has a small tuber right now, I've got that in the kitchen getting some light.

Incredible blooms Becky. Your's always put an incredible show one.

Thanks everyone! It's been an interesting experiment to grow them under lights this winter.

Debra - I didn't know that the Pink Moon vine had a caudex. Do you have a photo of any that you have grown? It's obviously a perennial, right?

I posted my caudex on various threads, and the laptop and all the thousands of pictures has gone fried. It is a prennial and will get big big big. I love mine.

I have a few more started already, and have promised two of them away to some tropical people. Yours is looking GOOD!

Thanks, Debra. I just looked it up in PlantFiles and saw this photo: http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/showimage/128402/ OMG!!!! That is gorgeous! Several folks posted that the caudex on theirs was as big as a soccer ball. And it is hardy in cold temps! Works for me!!!! LOL! Thanks again.

Didn't you grow some Pandy seeds from your neck of the woods?

Oh yes, but I have no clue where I put them. LOL they are hiding out I am sure. I have tons of seeds, plants and vines everywhere.. Pandy tubers are outside and inside both.

This little one is promised out and as soon as it warms up above freezing it goes to its new momma.

Debra - Is that a Pandy tuber or a Pink Moonvine tuber? I can't tell them apart yet. LOL!

Jackie sent me a couple Pandy seeds which I plan to sow here very soon. I really am becoming a fan of the caudex plants! Really neat plants in every way! :-)

That is a pink moon vine caudex. Pandy tubers are usually under ground and grow down, these grow up. Pandy leaves look different too. At least the ones here do...
My beach moon vine has a thick bottom.. I am sending it to Florida soon..It's bottom looks like a fat rope.

From what I have read ... the Pink Moonvine caudex/plants grow pretty fast! I look forward to the blooms this year. Really pretty vine! Thanks for thinking of me and sharing it! :-) The vine I wanted to share with you last year (Calystegia pubescens) ... kicked the bucket. I was hoping to share some rooted cuttings with you and a few other folks. Didn't happen before it died. Apparently not hardy down here in this heat. Pooh!

I didn't know the Pandy's produce underground tubers. Interesting! Learn something new every day! :-)

Becky, the pandys that grow up north of me here, that I get seeds from, must have been there for years. I bet their tubers are 10 feet deep by now..
I was advised to keep them in pots because of the growth of their tubers.. The Indians used to eat them according to the Kansas Native Plant Society.
I. Plantesis is a great caudex to grow, Kim.

Hi Everybody! Another MG newbie here. Came upon your thread looking for Rose Silk. I have become obsessed with finding some seeds. Becky, you have opened up a whole new world to me. Thank you for posting all of your beautiful photos. Can you imagine how painful it is gardening in zone 4a? I have a long way to go before seeing anything green outside. Thankfully my loving husband agreed to adding on a small lean-to greenhouse during a home-remodel last summer. I will be starting some MG seeds today! Does anyone have some Rose Silk or should I say Yuuzuki (Thanks Becky) seeds available for purchase? The only MGs I see growing around these parts are the Heavenly Blue and Grandpa Otts. I will make it my mission to broaden the scope in this area.

Hi LisaMary - Welcome to the forum! Glad you are enjoying my vines and winter blooms! I don't have any Rose Silk seeds left as they were all given away in trades in 2009. Unfortunately, I didn't get any seeds from my Yuuzuki vine this past year because the rust killed the vine before it had the chance to make seeds. I am sure someone else here has seeds that they would be willing to share or trade with you.

You are in the north. The Rose Silk is an I. nil species of Morning Glory. The I. nils do best with heat and sunshine, so it may take them several months to grow and bloom. Have you grown any other I. nil cultivars before?

Hi Becky. No, I haven't grown any I. nil cultivars before. Do you think I would be successful with this cultivar if I started it in my greenhouse this time of the year?

LisaMary - What are your temps like? They like warm temps to thrive.

Peeka boo I see you! this is a i. sp karrbilk from Australia finally coming up.

another stripe is smiling at me today..

Should I pinch this now?

Debra I've never heard of a i. sp karrbilk? Do you have any pictures of the blooms? Also does it have a cadeux?

Debra - I have been winding my vines around several times before I started pinching them. I wanted to make sure that I had enough growth on them before stunting their growth.

I've never heard of I. sp karrbilk. Australia? I am sure we will all be interested to see what the blooms look like and the habit of the vine. Cool!

I have been trying to get those things to sprout and bloom for a year. This is the first sprout and the I. sp is a wild native from the township if Karrabilk is what I understand. Now if the Marrabeck would sprout I will be happty too, since those are from Austrailia as well ( natives)