I would love to partake if you would kindly oblige me Moonlighting :-D (((Moonlighting))) Youre an expert!!!!!!!!!! Keep talkin' to them precious lil' plants...they love it even if the neighbors think your crazy..they dont LOL
Yoooo hoooo messenging Badseed...did I (hehe) grovel the best or what???? aye???? So ya gonna come off some seeds my friend? lol LMK :-D (((((BadSeed))))
Corkscrew Vine(vigna caracalla)
i would love some seeds. groveling alot here. just make sure someone is here to help me up. hehe Annabelle isnt the only one with bad knees. yea i looked at parks and still sold out. i think they only get like three packs then sell out. man these are hard to come by. groveling still for seeds. Imzadi Marie
Badseed...stop making us beg sweetie...((((Badseed)))
ROFL Imzadi you too, hehehe
I soon got over my disappointment over the vine tho...you see, when I bought the alleged "corkscrew" vine I noticed there was another vine (actually 3) growing in it that I recogonized right away (I LOVE freebies)....it has finally bloomed....
I contacted Parks Seed the first part of the year to find out when they were getting more of these real corkscrew seeds in and they told me they would not until next year (2004) because their supplier had a major crop failure....maybe the supplier killed all the ants at his site, LOL..!
Beautiful Clitoria!!! Right????
You are right Badseed.....(Ü).....
Believe it or not, I have been growing one and this is the 3rd. year for it. I brought it inside last eve because of the hurricane and guess what, it finally has a bloom on it after all this time. Also, my tuberose that I just took inside has one bloom also. If I ever get seed from the vigna, will be sure to post.
Maybe yours wants to be a "house plant" haighr....it likee the A/C....lol...
I grew the white last year and the blue the year before. I can never help being sort of embarrassed by that flower! LOL
I TOTALLY agree Badseed......
Let me have a chat with Susie later on. I think she rooted cuttings last year. I have two plants but I am keeping one-the ONE with blooms! LOL I also just realized the cactus asked first and now I feel bad.
Hi,
thought I would throw in my 2 cents worth. My friend Laurrie (ohiobreezy) and I are growing these. There are 2 varieties but here is what I have discovered growing both. The cream with purple edges is fragrant & has a much fleshier petal. The blossom only lasts 1 day & the fragrance reminds me of gardenias. The solid purple is a much flimsier petal, not fragrant & the blossoms stay on for days. The ants are the pollinators of these. OK, OK, I KNOW you already know all that! LOL my contribution is this:
while the ants mill all over these, they do not disturb the solid purples whereas the stinking little buggers CHEW OFF the cream colored buds! Bet you didn't know that! I had a bumper crop of buds & kept finding them on the ground so I started paying closer attention & sure enough, the ants were chewing all the buds off at the base. So now, from my "bumper crop", I have ended up with 2 piddling blooms. I decided I would rather have the blooms then the seedpods since the odds are I would not get any seeds anyway, and put down ant poison & managed to get rid of them. I have a few more buds starting so will probably get a few more blooms if I can keep the ants off. So if you ARE growing these, pay attention to that & nip it in the bud (no pun intended) before you lose all your flowers.
There, I think I actually put in a nickels worth but hey, your all worth it! :)
Donna
Here is a picture of the purple so you can compare:
Edited to say that anyone in California (sorry, I won't send cuttings out of state)that wants cuttings from mine for SASE is welcome until I run out.
This message was edited Sep 17, 2003 6:19 PM
how low can the temp get before I need to bring mine inside? It was 46' last night. when I do I'm going to cut it way back so I'll make cuttings from all the trimmin's
LOL Pudgy! I enjoyed your nickel thoroughly!!
LOL....
ROFL!!!!!! I am dying over here lol
Then it was a nickel well spent, Bad! LOL
Carena, here is the link I use for info, I assume it applies to both the cream & the purple, but I have been known to be wrong...NOT! LOL
http://www.desert-tropicals.com/Plants/Fabaceae/Vigna_caracalla.html
I bring mine inside before it goes below 50 at night. Hope the bloom on mine opens while inside, it is small but being the first one, I don't care, just be nice to see it bloom. My bedroom looks like a jungle, musa, jasmine, 2 pineapple, orange tree, tuberose, venus fly trap and now 3 trachycarpus wagnerianus! LOL hard to move around in there!
ROTFL you all are too funny!! Pudgy (and you know you are NOT pudgy!!!!)...you know I always listen to your ramblings, and most times they are right on!!! he he he. Still watching mine, and alas, where I thought there were buds, I don't find any this morning, think the ants all came here for dinner last night, but keeping my eye on them!!!
Don't feel bad Chele, I would probably lose it before spring anyway!!
Ok guys...I'm have to say this while I brace myself - I have also heard that this vine develops tubers so it should come back year after year..??..
I think when they sell them, they list them as tubers, but in more of an actuality it is more like a clump of roots. I remember reading about someone (maybe shoe??) ordering it and some other people and they actually got roots as opposed to like dahlia tubers. I am pretty sure that is what I read. I did not try to overwinter them last year but I will this year. I did well just moving some pots of stuff right into the garage.
that's how mine came, a group of tubers. I planted them (it??) in April and my vines are about 12 feet long already, eith lots of baby buds.
Maybe it depends how much you pay? LOL I mean, how old the roots are. :)
moonlighting, here is a thread I started about the this vine that I bought from Monticello. It came as a 2 year old tuber. You'll see a picture of it too.
http://davesgarden.com/t/378784/jules_jewel
Yep jules - that's the one I "heard" of - and thanks for the post....BTW - how was your luck with it? I almost bought one from the same place myself but instead opted to go the seed route...and you guessed it - I had NO luck with them!....oh they sprouted alright...but then they decided to rot in the pot...Anyway I checked back with Monticello recently but could not find the vine on their website, so it must be a seasonal item...at least if I go with them I know its the real thing!
moonlighting,
On Sept. 17th you wrote:
"My local nursery had the corkscrew vine in stock this year and after the owner guaranteed to me that this was indeed the "corkscrew/fragrant/purple to cream" one I was looking for - I bought it.....and just look at it now!"
The picture you posted is definitely a White Hyacinth Bean Vine! I've had them for years! I collect the seeds and replant them every year. Here's a picture of mine.
You mentioned in your next post that you felt it was a snail plant. But I don't think so.
I'm also growing the real fragrant corkscrew and it is now in full bloom. The scent is 'out of this world'!!! I sure hope I get some seeds out of it.
Yep, your white hyacinth bean vine looks exactly like my white snail vine....so my vine has now been renamed to "white Hyacinth bean" vine.....LOL....at least now I know how to properly ID it when I go to give all the seeds away.......
Sorry to burst your bubble, moonlighting, but if you're like me, I have to know exactly what I'm growing. I can't remember if you said you started them from seed or not, but if you did, here's a link to the Plant Database showing what the seeds look like.
http://plantsdatabase.com/showpicture/14970/
These are the black seeds, that make the purple flowering hyacinth beans, but the white flowering ones make the exact looking seeds, except for the fact that they are brown in color instead of black.
Just for your information, the seeds for this white flowering Hyacinth Bean Vine are rare to find. I was very fortunate last year to do some interesting trades with these seeds. Be sure to let the seed pods dry very well on the vine, and then harvest them. I truly love this vine. It looks great!
Hey Jules - that bubble was not a big one to bust, trust me!...LOL....the bubble started shattering when it bloomed....but I do appreciate you correctly IDing it - it does help when one is growing things, plus I would of hated to have given seed up to someone who wanted the white snail vine.....I have grown the purple hyacinth bean vine in the past but really never paid attention to the similarity of flower between the two, nor the seed since I have yet to see a seed from this particular vine...This white one more or less just grows and I never really look at it just to check pods for readiness while waiting for the winter thing to be over with so I can plant the much desired cork-screw vine to take its place. I did not grow this from seed but bought it from a nursery....I will be adding this to my trade list for those who would enjoy growing it.....(Ü).....
I know nothing about this company but I think this is the one you are looking for. I have no idea if this is a good price or not, but I think I may have to give them a try. These are drop dead gorgeous.
Alice
http://almostedenplants.com/mall/vine_directory.asp
After looking at this site for a few minutes I may have to pack my bags and move to zone 9, my goodness they have nice pictures. If their plants are half as good they must be wonderful.
Alice
Alice, I totally agree with you, thinking of packing my bags and heading that way too, those are lovely. Here we would have to pot and bring inside for the winter, but some of those sure look like they would be worth a try!!
Laurrie
I've ordered from this place twice and had great plants from them. Always, large, clean, and bug free. I hope I wasn't just the lucky one, but from my experience, I'd sure recommend them.
wow im moving just for the plants. hehe wow those are some pretty plants. i just dont have the room. would have to give up some of my glories to ddo them. love my mgs too much. but can look.
Imzadi, surely you have room for one more pot....just grow you one in a pot against a tree, fence or anything thats standing. They are worth the effort...the flowers are sooooo pretty you just have to get one......... :o)
Drooling over site!!!!.......lol.....thanks for posting the site....
i wish i could ad just one more pot. we are having amoney problem at the moment and i cant afford one of those beautifull plants. seriously i cant even if i wanted too. daughter just got out the hospital and started school a couple weeks ago. now we are on watch of her. our ibnsurance only pays half so its no flowers for me unless its seeds or sase. once in awhile i will do postage but for now i am on a limit this month and maybe next.
but to all of you who buy good luck with them and enjoy them. just dont go broke on the site. you have to answer to the spouses.
and moonlighting heres a towel. quit drooling on me. hehehe i dont want a drool bath. hehhehe