Morning Glories 2016 # 09

Helena, forget to tell you I will save you some Abutilon seeds. :-)

hope you can save the jays, Jackie. Pretty blooms, both of you. Just came in from checking for mgs, have a fw purps and the pandy. off to work, ugh.

Thanks Jackie. I use to have quite a collection of Abutilons plants years ago, all different colors. Now I only have 3 colors.
First 4 pictures are blooms from yesterday on my second walk outside, last another vine with pink todays bloom.

A few more blooms from this morning.
Hama no Ginga vine with 3 different blooms (3rd with a bit of damage), last bloom is purple not blue.

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Nice blooms, Helena and everyone else!
I reckon Helena is allured by the large-flowered varieties of Ipomoea nil.

-Tony

I'm proud to say that these are the results of my (Orihime x Scarlett o' Hara) cross! Nothing special, though.

-Tony

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Here's a little experiment I'm doing with one of my mg's. I'm trying to see if I can get larger, more robust and higher quality flowers by using profound pruning. I'd let the plant grow at least 6 true leaves and then pinch it back to obtain 6 leaves, removing premature flower buds. Then side shoots would grow from the internodes of those leaves and I would keep, not necessarily the longest, but the most robust shoot and remove the rest of the plant, except for that one shoot. I would repeat that process at least 5 times. Then I would let that single shoot grow on a 8-10 foot cane, using the cordon method, removing all side shoots and every other flower bud, depending on the number of flower buds the cordon produces. when the cordon reaches the top, then I would pinch it back.

In this picture, I'm on trial 5 of this experiment, almost done:-)

-Tony

Absolutely gorgeous blooms this morning Helena. Love
all your pinks on the 1st row and the beautiful purples on the 2nd row.

Beautiful cross blooms Tony.. Hope you get great blooms from your experiment

LYK with Star open this am, a small bloom but very pretty. Beckys hybrid

Thanks Tony and Jackie. Hope your blooms are huge with your experiment too Tony. I've read of that method or similar before too and seen pictures of huge blooms.


Pretty bloom Jackie. I like it a lot.

(forgot to post my blue bloom.)

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Afternoon everyone.
Sorry you have to work today Debra.
I love all your blooms today.

Here's a rotated, revised image of my cross. Y'all should view it better, now. Here's also an opium poppy I grew earlier this season.

Thanks ladies.
Very pretty color on your cross Tony..
Helena, if nothing goes wrong, looks like my special bloom mg, from last yr,
will make her first bloom this season from seed I planted some time ago. Anxious to see if its as pretty as its unknown parent last year. A pic of it last yr,.

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Sorry about you having to work Debra. Hope you get to relax today.

Hope your baby bird (jay) is doing ok. I know that's not a easy thing to do.

( editing.....Started this post yesterday so didn't see the previous posts.

Neat bloom Tony. Poppies are nice, I like one called Lauren's Grape.

Pretty bloom too Jackie, hope yours make it just like you want.)

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I took these pictures in the rain holding a umbrella, got a little wet but glad I did it.

Repeat blooms though.

Beautiful pictures Helena.

Thanks Helena. Your Lite blue blooms are absolutely beautiful this morning.
Like the Pink Silk and the lovely Pink TDye too.
We put the baby bird out yesterday because he had quit eating worms for me.I know his mama found him. I saw her in the lower tree branches after I placed him under the tree and moved away,.
If I had kept him, he would have died for sure, Not easy to save baby birds.
Edo Twilight
A tattered Saz. not as pretty as the other day
2 pics of my Spec mg, purple not blue. this one is variable with no 2 blooms alike.
These 2 pics are of the same bloom.
LYK



This message was edited Jul 17, 2016 1:01 PM

Beautiful blooms Jackie! Love them all!

Glad you were able to put the bird out and have the momma find it and take over.

Thanks Helena.
I had a gray open this morning from Ronnie with a missing tag. My pic isn't any good so I'll wait till I can get a better pic.

To our new thread http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/1428791

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