We've been successful in crossing the red and pink Ipomoea quamoclit to create a wonderfull different color combination. The seeds are true and we have a few to trade if anyone has any Passion Flower vine seeds of any variety accept the caerulea or the edulis variety ....
Hurry we only have a few seeds to trade of the pink streak!!!!
mmseeds
I'm growing the white pink and red ones together .. am I possibly going to get crosses of these or was the crossing you got some great process that isn't likely to occour in the wild..
It could happen in the wild as you put it. We grew ours last year and had intentionally experimented, then this year we sown the seeds and got the same results. It could be a genetic fluke on our part, but it is fun never the less :-)
My neighbor has some like this growing 'wild' - I know they didn't intentionally cross them, as they just grow out in his field and get cut down whenever he takes the notion to mow . .. I haven't tested the seeds to see if they come back true or not, though. They are very pretty!! Very neat experiement!!
Onalee
We are trying the red and white cross next. We anticipate that the flowers will have a candy stripe "flavor" color (sorry the hummingbirds insisted we say that :-) Will keep you all posted as to our progress. This is fun....at least we think so. The cypress vine Ipomoea quamoclit has been our best plant for attracting hummingbirds. Just today when we were all outside gathering seeds the little hummers were right there with us, flitting from flower to flower right above our heads. I think they are use to us by now, but the little chirping sound they make is so faint, but curiously pleasing to hear. Don't you just love all of God's creatures? JOHN 15:1-8
I would like to ask about hummingbird vines, I planted two, both had fern like leave, both took over everywhere, never did get any flowers and am having hard time getting rid of the starts that keep popping up everywhere, I purchased them from a nursery on the Internet, picture showed trumpet type flowers, why are these vines going wild, and NO flowers, this is the second year.
Well for your area, they would definitely be an annual vine and for them to keep coming back you would have to have flowers to produce seeds which would fall to the ground and grow up again the following year. Are you certain it is the same vine? It isn't to unusual to have them coming back every year if that is the case.
Mountainmeadowseeds - You've got mail
Hi Gardengirl1204 - We just sent you a response through email.....hope it makes it through this time.....the last one came back to us as undeliverable....sorry, we are trying though :-)
Thanks,
Dennis & Christy
It is the same vine,it grows like a weed, and sprouts up in variouse places, when I try to pull them up they have very long roots that seem to go everywhere.
My aunt once said this to me when I commented on not wanting to pull up some plants that I didn't actually plant (because I have always had a hard time killing any plant) she said to me, "If you planted it and want it, then it's not a weed keep it, but if you didn't plant it and don't want it then it is a weed, pull it out no matter what it is". I have followed that bit of advice for many years. I like the hummingbird vines, they attract more humming birds than any plant I have ever grown, but some people despise them so. The bottom line, even if it is a volunteer plant of a rose bush and you don't like it, yank the sucker out of there :-) Happy gardening.....
mmseeds
I agree with you, and if this vine had flowers I would be a very happy gardener, but it has never had a bloom, and this is the third year
It sounds like you have very fertile soil. That could be the main reason it doesn't bloom for you. Cypress vines (hummingbird vines most call it) require low nutrient based soil to produce flowers. Odd as that seems, the foliage will flourish in rich nutrient based soil, but produce little if any flowers. We have had best luck with our vines when the soil is almost dried and crusty looking and the leaves (fern like in appearance) turn yellow and fall off, but the flower buds will perform wonders. Early in the year when the plants are young they will look healthy and grow vigorously, then once the buds start forming all the energy will go towards those buds and the foliage will start looking unhealthy. The vines are at their peak in appearance when it is covered with hundreds of flowers every day for a motnh straight and foliage is hidden. It truly is remarkable to see. We enjoy growing them, but we realize not many people have the same tastes as we do when it comes to flowers and gardening. Some like pansies and petunias, we like the underdogs of plants.......to us they hold unrecognized treasures which we enjoy :-)
