"Blue Silk" Japanese Morning Glory Seed Contest

The photo was taken today July 1, at 11:am and it is the seed pod of Japanese Morning Glory "Blue Silk".

This thread is for you to guess when I pick this pod, and who ever is the closest is the winner. In case of a tie the pod will be split between the two....... . It is my discression as to when it is ready and I will pick it then and note the date and time. I will then announce the winner here and on the Morning Glory 2005 thread. This contest is for the whole pod, no matter if it is 4 seed or 6, whats in it goes to the winner or winners............and yes some have 4 seeds I have picked a few that had one........but as you can see this one looks pretty good and fat....
I will take photos after the close date...Unless it is already matured and picked???? could be never know????.....just to keep up the suspense.....LOL and it will be some suspense to......LOL
I love these Games.....

Rules are simple, you have one guess only so think it over and make you best guess....

Good Luck..........

Dee

july 20 @ 5:00 pm

you know, seed collecting should be done in the late afternoon. ;)

This message was edited Jul 1, 2005 11:28 AM

edited to say July 13

This message was edited Jul 1, 2005 11:14 AM

July 19
7 AM

This message was edited Jul 1, 2005 3:54 PM

HAHA was everyone waiting for me to answer?

LOL
Was deciding if I should use my B-day or not :)

OK guys I need yall to go back and edit..............put in a time as well as a date....
This will help in case a bunch choose the same day

July 14 8:00 A.M.

july 10th 4 pm

Thanks soooo much.....
Dee

july 25 7am


carol

July 15- 8:30 am

July 18th 10am *-*

July 17
9 AM

July 15th 7:30pm

July 16th @ 9:00 a.m.
(my son's birthday)

will anxiously be watching this thread...HA~

July 11@5pm.

July 8, 11:00 AM.

July 15th @ 2:25 p.m.

July 23rd, 7pm

July 24,7pm
Bonnie

today was our first wrong answer!

July 17th 7:10am
Colleen

July 20 10am

:-)

July 16th is my birthday and it's also my litle brothers birthday. Yes we were literally born on the same day exactly 2 years apart, pretty wild eh? I can barely remember it, I had a cake with very cool race cars racing on a track around the candles. Sadly My parents were nowhere to be found but I had plenty of family to share the day with.
I'm going to guess it will need the full days sun to finish ripening so it should be picked at 8:00pm as the sun begins to fall below the horizon.
July 16th at 8:00pm.
I'll be waiting for your email to tell me how many seeds are in MY POD! LOLOL
Thanks friends, JD

Seed is Picked and here we go.................

Picked July 12th at 8:10 am.......................
the winner from what I can see is...............

Budgielover...................her guess was
July 11 at 5 pm ....So that is a difference of 15 hours.....
Closer than anyone else....
Way da go Jan...........
I will keep the seed a few days and let
it dry and send it to you.
I have your addy from the addy exchange....
Congratulations......

Dee

Yipee yea.
I can't believe it. Gosh I'm gonna cry! I've wanted this one for so long and have never gotten any viable seeds.
Jan...

This message was edited Jul 12, 2005 12:30 PM

congrats! you just have to promise to do this with the seed pods when you get some :)

Congratulations!!
Bonnie

Way to go!! Congrats!!
:) Donna

WooHoo
Congrats, Budgielover

Just an update on the seeds I received. I decided to try these 1 at a time and here is the first one attempted. I received the the seeds on Saturday. Presoaked to germination and planted on Sunday night. Here is the seedling today.

Yahoooooo....way da go Jan. I am just pleased as punch, so glad you will soon have your beautiful "Blue Silk" blooms to look at..............
Keep us posted....
Dee

Hi Dee,
4 days from mailbox to seedling. Definitely viable. LOL
Now to get it past the seedling stage. I'll start another seed next weekend and see what happens.
Jan...

Just an update on the 1 seed I started. (Saving the others for backup. LOL)

Looks really great Jan, so glad to see it doing so well.
Hope you have blooms to share soon.
Dee

I posted this on the MG thread also but wanted to share with everyone here. The plant above is doing great and totally covered the tomato cage and is full of blooms. I wanted to share the first 2 that opened up this am. I am so happy and excited. Thanks again Dee and hopefully, it will set some seeds that I can share also.
Jan...

Another view.

A truly beautiful flower. Now if I could just find one that looked like that and was an afternoon bloomer....

Jan, I am just so pleased that the seeds produced so wonderfully for you. The parent vine is now gone but I have lots of seed to start more and to give away more as well.
Thanks so much for sharing with us and what a job..........yipppeee

Dee