My order & gift arrived today (thank-you Arlene)....I would appreciate any hints you could give me in growing these beauties. Actually I had never heard of them before I was asked if I wanted to order some! The ones I got are in the photo...can anyone tell me anything about them. It seems that I read that they are larger in size than regular MG!? To tell the truth I have not grown MG either!
Thank you for your help...Margie
I got my order in too! Aren't they great seed packets?
I was wondering what the N-P-K ratio is recommended for the JMGs grown in containers. I noticed a bolus of material in the pot that must be fertilizer, but, of course, I don't understand the legend of the diagram that is written in native language.
Joseph
Are you versatile at nicking the seed coat with a sharp instrument like a knife or maybe a nail clipper? Take a small nick off the seed coat, enough so you can see the whitish material inside, then soak the seeds from 1 to 24 hours to get the seed to wake up (through the process of imbibation - seed soaks up water in other words). Then you can sow the seed in the ground, 1/4" deep in soil that is reliably warm at 65 to 70 degrees F. You ought to have those conditions outdoors by now in SoCal, yes? The vines will need a trellis for support.
Just my 2 cents worth...I'm sure others will offer other verbs of help.
Joseph
Thank you Joseph...you gave me the info. that I need to start...I am in Northern CA. though and our nights are still cold...in the 40's and even the days are sometimes 50-60. I had better plan to start my seeds in containers and put them out in a month or so.
Margie
Margie
Your plants will be very pretty, these flowers are looking beautiful, please share pictures when blooms.
Thanks
kaleem
sounds like yall are really getting into the schematics of things...but i've never done anything other than soak over night, and i get almost a 100% germination rate. no scarification or anything.
i grow mine in hanging baskets...and when they are coming up i mist them with a dilute solution of solublew fertilizert...every day. peters 20-20-20 works well as it is absorbed through the leaves.
after they are good and healthy, i throw a light sprinkle of slow release on em' and watch em go crazy. the key is light fertilizzation. heavy fertilization..and all you get is leaves.
i much prefer the japanese varities..as i think they tend to be lovelier..but that's just MHO. :)
Twenty2libras...Wow...your way sounds very easy! Hanging baskets are a good way to go too! I hadn't thought of that. Thank-you for responding. I have never seen a JMG in bloom, so it should be exciting for me!
I read somewhere the other day that seeds from Takii and Sukata do not need to be nicked or soaked, but can be planted right away...I wish I could remember where I read that!
I love the idea of hanging pots, but my kitties think they are chandeliers to swing from. What a way to be woken at 3 am - not good for ceiling, floor or anything inbetween.
Another foe in my house has been damping off fungus - lost a batch of chocolate morning glories some time ago to that. Now EmmaGrace has very kindly shared a strain of that MG with me, and have just learned a technique in the Propagation Forum that should help:
After nicking seed as above, MG seed can be soaked in the following solution for 24 hours:
1 - 2 Tbsp hydrogen peroxide [H202] @ 3% or 3.5% concentration (can use more or less) (volume is different from percentage; i.e., 6% (20 volume) is much stronger than 3% H202.)
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1 gal distilled water (minerals & organics in tap water make water become murky, but some DGers found that tap water worked okay. If you are germinating something like daylilies that spend about 21 - 30 days in this solution before being potted along, use distilled water)
Put a ½ “ of solution into bottom of jar; put in seeds overnight or for a day; then plant in medium presoaked in same solution. Cover with plastic. If not planting directly outside, grow under grow lights 16 hours/day.
Hydrogen peroxide (H202) = H20 + extra 0. It's the extra atom of oxygen that attaches somehow to the environment of the germinating medium and makes things very uncomfortable for fungi and/or anaerobic bacteria so beloved by rot (Y'all help me out here if you can express this more accurately).
Plants/seedlings can be watered with H202 solution - keeps down fungus gnats. Because the extra oxygen radical oxygenates the plant, it is impossible to overwater plants with this. Nice to use when bringing in plants.
The information in this post came from: http://davesgarden.com/forums/t/423028/
The use of this H202 solution can also be used in tandem with the baggie and wintersowing methods, as mentioned in this thread.
This message was edited Dec 7, 2005 6:16 AM
I also did not nick, but only soaked overnight. They all germinated and I planted thenm all over the garden in Sept. I live in Palm Springs and so far they are not growing very fast, but they are healthy and I am sure that when Spring arrives, they will shoot up. These are the first Morning Glory's that I have been able to grow from seed. I am very excited to see them bloom.
