You're welcome, Kell! Master Gardener taught me well :)
Cutting Edge technology can help your plants..
And you retained it all! You must be younger and smarter than I am! Some days I am lucky to just retain my address. LOL
EXCELLENT Jeff, Thanks for all that- just copied, pasted and printed it :)
Susan McCoy
Well, it wasn't that long ago that the class ended........And some days I'm lucky to be able to remember where I left my glasses....the days I can't I get out another pair LOL! I have 6 pairs stashed all over the house because I constantly (temporarily) lose them...
And, I agree -- thank you Jeff for posting the great information! I hope you and everyone else here have a blessed holiday weekend!
Just received my order of Messenger and will spray in the morning. I cannot wait to get it on the plants. Jenny
We must have inundated Jeff and company because mine hasn't arrived yet and it has a week. (well not quite...I lied a little bit) I'm just a short distance mail-wise from them.
**sigh**
Waiting for paint to dry is easier than waiting for Messenger.
Ordered mine on Wednesday and it arrived today -- Yeah! I'm going to apply it tomorrow morning, weather permitting.
Got mine! :)
I applied the Messenger this morning (used the whole gallon). Now I am wishing I had ordered more than the small 3 pack. Oh well I'll wait and see how it works. Jenny
Hi, All -
Tomorrow I will apply Messenger to my all my flowers - this will be treatment number 3 - They are all doing wonderfully as you can see...
Here's a view of my Anchor bed and cannas around our pond - taken this morning when the morning glories were Morning Glorious!
Diane Krny
I love your pic best of all, Diane, but your flowers are wonderful too!!!! Morning Glories absolutely will not 'do' here, the wild morning glories take over and the flowers are only about the size of a quarter and such an odd shade of blue. I do, however, love yours!!!
Diane - 'what big ears you have' They are really looking good. I'm so glad you told us about Messenger.
Thanks, SherryLike -
Yes, I would imagine it is just too warm down there. I have a cousin who lives in Gilbert, LA and I visited him a few years ago in early May when the temps were around 100 deg by day and SOOO humid. These are my very favorite variety of Morning Glory - Heavenly Blue. Here is a close up - they are such a beautiful color!
I don't know what kind of morning glory this is, but my neighbor planted it and it is coming over my fence & I am so happy to have it! It looks so cheery, especially first thing in the morning....I love blue anyway.
Diane...your plants look beautiful!
Margie -- I'm not sure what yours is -- very pretty, but not Heavenly Blue.
Diane -- your gardens and plants look spectacular! I will be applying my Messenger tomorrow morning...
Sherry -- I grow all kinds of MG's here, and they thrive! Here is a Heavenly Blue "bush" along my driveway behind the two seedling blooms. The color is not accurate. My camera doesn't do well with blue and purple... You might want to give them a second try :)
Ha, looks like a Morning Glory day! These are my yearly reseeders, I pull them out where I don't want them.
BTW, I sprayed yesterday and am anxiously watching for any noticable results on some tired looking plants.
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They are growing up my arbor.
I thought mine was heavenly blue. Probably not!
WOW - I have about 4 hours to get in on the Sept. 6th deadline...I just saw this thread.
I'm sold.
I have a large greenhouse full of Hoyas...and 6 acres of garden. YOU BET I will give it a controlled try. Thanks a million.
Carol
PS Jeff...are there any counterindications...like...DON"Ts when using Messenger?
Very pretty CalifSue!
Kell: your morning glories are gorgeous! I do believe however that Heavenly Blue has a yellow throat...
http://images.google.com/images?q=Heavenly%20Blue%20Morning%20Glory&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi
Whew, guys, your Heavenly Blues, et al, are to die for, just beautiful. Calif_Sue, your flowers are wonderful and your arbor is outta this world, I love the color. It looks like Victorian Green, which I just crave, it's so pretty.............I promise I'll never do MGs again. The first year they were so wonderful, beautiful Heavenly Blue and huge, abundant flowers. After that, they never, ever were worth a flip, including this year. An awful red/blue and tiny. I've tried them every few years or so for the past 41 years, and, for some reason, they simply will not work in this area. My moon flowers are absolute perfection, I just don't get it...
I looked it up before I posted Gretchen and I saw that in the description. But I do not let facts interfere with my gut feelings. I charge full steam ahead regardess. LOL
Brugie and I talked a month or so ago as to the name of this one and as I recall she corrected me then also. It is the one that is a perennial here and it literally will cover entire valleys or houses. Now today my gut is telling me Heavenly Blue is not the name, where is Brugie when you need her! LOL
I have this one growing also but have no clue which one it is. It was a volunteer..
Regardless of the name, it's beautiful Kell. Except for pink and blue, I didn't have a clue there were others, duh!! I'll plant a different one next year and see if that will solve my annual MG crisis...
Kell, this looks like one of the Japanese ones. I will have to see if I can find the name somewhere.
Wow Kell!!! I love that one, it is absolutely gorgeous...and it volunteered??? What a neat pattern it has, I'm in awe
Kell, the one that takes over is Ipomoea Acuminata. Here is where I got mine about three years ago.
http://www.logees.com/store/
OOOH..that's a pretty one Kell -- looks a little like denim tye-dye :-)
Hi, Carol in Hawaii -- glad you found this thread -- I am the one who started it and I am so glad I did - Messenger is really a wonderful product that seems to hold so much promise for us home gardeners. Read Jeff's long post above posted at 11:05 Sept 3rd for some great info on when and how to apply messenger -- it is practically impossible to do it wrong tho - it is a very benign, harmless substance that simply allows the plants to help themselves.
Guys..look at this Tropicanna Gold Canna pic I took yesterday - My canna's are looking spectacular with Messenger..
Here is an updated composite of my Datura flowers - all taken this morning. Gone are the insect eaten, yellowed, leaves and brown spotted flowers...since Messenger --the flowers are gorgeous. By the way I will be harvesting lots of seeds again this year (the pods are ripening now) and will be offering them for SASEs in about a month or so.
By the way -- don't limit yourselves to spraying Messenger on your flowers - it appears to be helping my weeping cherry tree and my baby pink dogwood which both were showing some leaf spot and mildew - looking much better now... hmm...one of my neighbors was listening to me sing the praises of Messenger yesterday and they said -- "now fess up, Diane - you work for these guys, right?" "No, I replied - but I'd like to!" (are you listening, Jeff??)
Wow that is so cool how you did that with your pics...did I ask you already what program you use? lol..sorry if I did.
This stuff looks like it does a great job!!!! May be checking into it!
Hi krnysgirl love your morning glory have ten pots of heavenly blue and each morning there are many new blosoms open. Bob
BrugAddict - I edit and make my photo composites with Photoshop 8.0. I've been working with Photoshop since version 5.0 -- and indispensible tool for digital photographers.
Hi, Bob - yes - Heavenly Blues are my favorite and they put on a beautiful show right up to frost.
Diane Krny
Okay Kell -- I think that one is Flying Saucers -- we had a discussion about it somewhere a week or so ago, because many times it doesn't bloom with the "tie-dye" effect that yours has. Its beautiful!
http://images.google.com/images?q=morning%20glory%20flying%20saucers&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi
Sherry: They come back here too, but I pull up the volunteers and plant new seeds each spring. They are annuals, and not native here, so I seem to have much better luck starting fresh. I know that Minigrannie grows a perennial MG that has beautiful blue flowers and completely covers an arch in her garden. She's in a warmer zone though -- 9a. I certainly understand why you don't want them though...
Kell -- I just happened upon your blue MG's, second post in Happenstance's "jungle floor" thread, called Blue Dawn:
http://davesgarden.com/forums/t/453521/
Help!! Did any of you order the 18-18-18 fertilizer, Mighty Plants, that was featured with the Messengers?? The directions on the packets say:
>>Mix one packet, 12 grams, in one gallon of water. Apply to the foliage and thoroughly soak the root zone of outdoor plants ever 7-21 days.>>
I just put the fert in my green water buckets, 2 1/2 gals each, and it took two whole boxes. Might I be misunderstanding the mixing directions??? I used 2 1/2 packets, per bucket. If I mixed it correctly, it is going to take me at least two full boxes, with 10 packets each, just to do my named brugs, and they will not be 'thoroughly soak(ed)' and there won't be enough to spray the foliage. Each packet is .95 cents, which is about twenty bucks an application AND I wanted to do my entire garden, which would take, at the minimum, 40 or 50+ packets, which of course would mean forty or fifty bucks. Also, these 20 packets won't be enough to do the leaves. If it is a miracle, I don't mind the cost - if not, this will be a one time feeding. Surely, hopefully, I'm misreading the directions.
Bump...I hope that works, but not sure if that is the way to do it.
You are mixing it right. One pkt. makes one gallon of fertilized water. Way too expensive for me, but I'll use it on my seedlings when they get started or as a foliar feed. I, personally, doubt that it is any different than most other fertilizers with the same numbers.
Thanks, oh so much, Shirley!!! It is unbelievably expensive. At that price, I'd prefer to spray the leaves, but I have 20 gallons already mixed and ready to go, whew. I believe the Messengers says it should be used quickly. Do you think that's the way it is with the Mighty Plants?? I guess I'll just go ahead and put it on the brugs, I don't know where I could save it if I didn't and I'll need my water buckets. I paid no attention to the price and, or mixing instructions when I bought it, I only thought about the cost, when I realized I didn't have enough to fert all the brugs. Oh, well...
I too bought quite a bit of the mighty plant, but unless they start selling it in a bulk container for less $$, it won't make sense for me to buy it again. I sprayed the Messenger on all the brugs yesterday. We'll see what happens with that...
about 1 week ago, I sprayed Messenger on two tomato plants that had 19 tomatoes combined. I thought this was a stellar amount and we were already excited. We went back to see the compost bin where they are growing and weren't even thinking about the messenger- they just got a little beat up from the high winds Frances provided. Well,.........THERE WERE 38 TOMATOES!!!!!!!! ON TWO PLANTS !!!!!!! My first time growing tomatoes ever!!!! My husband, who said, "No, I'm not going to devote any time to gardening- if you want to do it, it's your hobby"---- famous last words... He's out there in total admiration of the growth and is really excited about it as well. Diane, thanks so much for sharing this. I am learning so much here at Daves Garden. :)
Susan McCoy
I wish I could say the same. My verdict is still out.
However, I have noticed that each time I use it I immediately get a sore feeling throat. Has anyone else had this? I going to start wearing a mask when I use it.
Jeff, was this tested on humans? I always manage to get the wind to blow any spray right back on me.