Morning Glories Winter 2012-2013 #4

Enjoyed your pics Debra. Love the Cereus and Rick Rack cactus esp.

Thank you, the main lights are all T5's high output, and the spot lights are just clamp lights with CFL's Daylight and warm light for blooming.
please look at the leaves of the five lobed leaf plant in third picture,, I think it is my i linder something can't spell it.. thoughts?

Debra it is Lindenheimer, I have one too. It never got flowers on it last year but I am hoping for some this season.

Nice pictures Debra. Your plants look great. Beautiful picture of all that snow.

Well, I was disappointed with 2 of my blooms in gh this morning. I guess it just got too cold during the night. I checked my seedlings and a lot from of Dany had good roots so I got them in their little cup pots. My older seeds need a day or two longer on top of the fluorescent lights. I don't have all of Dany's seeds started, somehow I missed baggies #4, #5 and #6 that I have to nick and soak some from those. I hope that by the end of March it'll be warm enough to start bringing plants out of the gh.
It's been a lot colder this year than in the past at this time but amazingly not a real bad frost to kill a lot of my tropical that would have to start over again.

Ronnie, I hope it warms up for all of us. Still it's a beautiful day here.

You know, Ronnie, last summer the dang Linden thing bloomed and I missed it, but got a seed pod from it go figure.. LOL
going to take some pics of some other vines you guys can id for me LOL

sure can't wait to see more blooms from everyone.. is it Spring yet?

Too cold for comfort here in the mornings. But here's a peek at my seedlings, the fun part is seeing how some stem are dark, some very green and some with just some color. I'm really looking forward to growing these.

What does the stem color mean?

Your baby seedlings look good Helena. Mine are all stretched out, reaching for the light. But, since they're vines, it won't hurt em.
Still, I could lose them if I don't get them repotted and down to the g house for a little sun.
I can retrieve my pics now from the flashdrive. Everytime I exit one pic, it takes me to the slide show, how aggravating. Just
trying to figure it out one step at a time. Did I say I hate windows 8??

Thanks Jackie, mine are a little long stem too. Sometimes even window 7 does weird stuff too, frustrating to see the least.

Not a sure thing Linda but the color of the stem can mean that there's a possibility of the flowers being dark. I know that Dusky x Fujishibori has green stem and specks going up the stem. Redish stems are likely to be a pink bloom and a green stem could be a white or light color bloom, and dark purple stem I usually get dark blooms (like black king, or purple blooms. It's just neat to anticipate and maybe be surprised with what might bloom.

Oh, nice to know I learned something today! Thanks for the info!

Looking good Helena!!!

they look very healthy Helena.. ;)

Thank you ladies. Had a 3 blooms today, one pink that wasn't so nice, a nice blue and another smaller blue lavender with white around it. Last picture is of my tobacco tree that I started from seed blooming, it's a hummingbird plant.

love love love that blue Helena... I thought about a tobacco tree, but didn't know if I could grow one or not.. yours is beautiful!

have few blooming here..

Thanks Debra, that blue is even darker than it appears in the picture. I like that tobacco tree, this one is shorter, only 4 ft.

Love your blooms too, the 2 toned pink and the others are very nice too.

Love all the blooms, but I have never seen that tobacco plant! I will have to check into it!

Love all the beautiful blooms, Helena and Debra. Helena, love the tobacco tree.
Is it fragrant? Some of them are.
Debra, the tobaccos are tropical, annuals to carry over in the g house or restart from sds each spring.
But easy to start from sds, grow like
any tropical.
linda, you can usually find the tobacco tree as sds.

A good source for Nicotinas is http://jlhudsonseeds.net/ that's where I got my first seeds from. My favorite's are Nicotiana glauca (slow started from seed though), Nicotiana mutibilis (light pink flowers), I hope some of my other seedlings are from those, and Nicotiana tobacum (wild pink). They make loads of seeds but will have to wait awhile for those. They would grow good in TX and CA and other states too. jlhudson has a few pictures and I might be ordering a few others from him.

This mg is the only bloom I got today

that is a beautiful purple star.. reminds me of the one I grew beginning of winter. now I know where that seed came from! :)

A beautiful bloom Helena. Just love it.
Yes I order all my tobacco sds and most of all my other sds from Mr Hudson. What I miss is that
he can no longer offer the Zapotec sds. I ordered tons
of them and then let them age to the point they're no longer viable. :-(

to the new thread http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/1301798

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Thanks for the info and links. I will check them out!
Love that pink bloom!
Debra, did you forget your photo.

OK, this is not a morning glory, but it is all I have blooming right now. I won this from Facebook.

LK, that is gorgeous!

Thanks Debra, I love the ruffled edges! Now that I know I can grow amaryllis, I would like to find more.

Very pretty Linda, I think somewhere in my garden I have a red one.