what do you think? are these them???
mandevilla seed pods too?
meiyu... see my seed pod post again for better description of the location of the pods. Yours do look like pods (and quite different than mine) but I am not a Tropicals gardener so don't hold me to it, LOL! (Maybe you were looking for something that looks like yours in my photo?)
maybe its not a mandy,maybe a allamanda?
Darius...did look for something like mine, but went back and found yours...it looks like the pods on my star jasmine.
Crestedchik...I am really beginning to believe mine is not a mandevilla, because I can't find any mandevillas that are purple. I'm not sure Allamandas come in purple either. I'm getting frustrated about what to do with that pod, if that's what it is. I guess I wait til it cracks open or something, then I'll see. Hopefully someone will know what it is by then. It's really big (each one is about 3 inches around and maybe four inches long), so I hope there are a lot of seeds inside it!!! This is my very favorite plant as she is almost 10 feet tall, has lightly fragrant lavender flowers (about 20-30 blooms per day!!!)
I think its gorgeous,and I hope it gives you lots of seeds!
Thanks, Crested...me, too!!!!
I'm no expert, but I've had both and I'd almost bet that this is a mandevilla. Been wrong before though. Notice, I said almost. :-)
S.
No, Brugie, it's definitely a purple allamanda/india rubber vine. There's a link in one of my threads that, I think, Floridian put in, and I looked it up. They were identical. It's called cryptostegia-grandiflora, I think.
See, I told you I had been wrong before. I had never heard of this one until I checked the hyperlink. Really cool.
S.
Hehehe!!! They told me it was a mandevilla when I bought it, and I believed them until it grew two huge seed pods. I've been trying to find out what it really was, and thanks to DGs, I did!! You guys are all awesome, and I'm so glad I found you! I'm really enjoying the company along with the expertise!!!
Meiyu -- I'm obsessed with flowering vines, and this one has been on my wish list for a long time -- with no hope of finding it in a local nursery.
Any chance you might start me a rooting for ... a rooting of Pandora or Brown-bud Allamanda (more bush than vine) or pink Mandavilla (common, I know) or Thunbergia grandiflora/Blue Sky Vine or Thunbergia battiscombei or Japanese Morning Glories or Mina lobata/Spanish Flag or Corkscrew Vine or a young coral vine or an interesting taro/elephant ear (black, imperial, violet stemmed) or an heirloom Milk-and-Wine Crinum that has been in the family 150 years or a group of named coleus or an heirloom coral polyanthus rose (potted and forming buds -- don't know how long the parent plant has been around) ... or anything else I have ??? [No plant list here yet, but I can email you one.]
Meyiu,you have a gold mine!
Yummy!!!!!!!!
"eyes"
Holy Cow!! That is one nice list of vines. Since you are asking for a cutting, P. Rik, does that mean that the seeds might not grow true to the mother plant? Just learning here, so have to ask.
Brugie, that's the tip of the iceberg. I've literally garlanded this house with vines! Some day I'll have to tell you about some of my vine combinations and inventions for holding them.
Cryptostegia grandiflora is an organic species, so the seeds would produce true. Sure, I'd settle for some seeds, but a healthy, rooted cutting would be so much more certain, and sometimes it can take ages for seeds to germinate and produce a vine of blooming size. My pulse was just rushing at the thought of the possibility, however slim, of finally having a bit of that particular beautiful flowering vine.
WOW, rik!!! can i have one of each!!!! hahaha!!! i don't know how to root a cutting, and so far all my attempts have failed. you are welcome to come take a cutting...we're not far from AL and it sounds like you want it pretty badly... hehe!!! my seeds look like they'll be ready soon though. how about some waxed stem cuttings?...would that work? i could send it overnight if you'd like? she is so huge, and there's still a ton of new growth, even after my butchery trying to get rooted cuttings, i wouldn't mind trying if you think it'll work. if it doesn't, i'll just send you seeds when they're ripe? I really have no idea what vine I want, but I going to try to put flowering vines all along my fences. i have a 1/3 or 1/2 acre yard, and that's the only one so far...hehe. I love anything that smells good and can grow in san antonio. i love watering, feeding and pampering, so it can't be anything that needs to be ignored like most of the plants they sell here. if your cutting works, and you tell me how to do it for myself, you will be my hero, cuz i'm going to that round up thingy in october.
Last fall I rooted some allamanda cuttings by putting them (about 8 inches long) in a jar that was filled about half full of perlite. I wet it down well and left about an inch or so of water in the bottom. Put the cuttings into the jar and down deep, and covered the whole thing with a plastic bag that had a couple of vent holes punched in it at the top. I left them there for about a month and they were rooted. Don't do what I did though and pull on them. Wait until you see roots and dump them out. That way you won't hurt the fragile roots. Also, don't set them in a sunny location. While rooting, just some nice light is good enough.
I will try!!!
Kell, do you have this plant too?
no, I have this one Brugie
http://davesgarden.com/s/340412.html
i will try it too, brugie...kell, i sure would love to trade for yellow if you like the lavender! do you have seed pods yet?
Brugie thanks for the propagation information. My mandy is really large now and I want to take cuttings for next year. I tried before with potting soil and didn't have any success. Maybe it was too hot back then.
Joydie, the post I made was for Allamanda. I don't know if Mandevilla propagate the same way. I did find that one of my mandevillas had been chewed off at the ground by a rabbit and had laid in the garden for some time. I just stuck it in soil and it rooted. It was not tip growth, it was cut about two inches from the ground, so it was rather woody. I wondered then, if the mandevilla needs to heal before planted. You know how milky they are.
wow, brugie, you were very lucky, i think. i've tried every kind of way to propagate my mandevillas, with no success. i did have one that broke, too, and thought it was going to make it for a while because i had some new growth, but it died eventually...it, too was the woody part of the stem, though. i hope this allamanda cutting roots!!
Thanks Brugie, I'll cut some more branches and let them heal before I dip them in rooting hormone gel. The one plant I have is sooooo thick and dense at the bottom and I wanted it to looke more like a vine with branching at the top.
Well, I sure hope this wasn't just an accident, but I sure have a nice healthy rooted cutting now. I didn't want to dig up the mother plant either, so I'm saved!!
Brugie
My father was over to vist yesterday. He saw the mandevilla and just had to have one to grow indoors in his apartment. The patio doors to his balcony face south so he will have a good winter exposure. I potted up one of the plants for him and then he started looking around and saw more things that he liked. I filled his trunk with hanging baskets that I had made up. He's in heaven.
joydie1...what do you mean by letting it heal first?
I think she means you cut it off and do nothing to it till it drys at the end. So you do not stick it in water or wet dirt. Then once it forms a callous you pot it up.
I do not think I have a seed pod Meiyu. But I will try to root this Brugies way! I would love a piece of yours.
okay, that's a deal, kell!!