You Grow These Inside? Info Please

I can't believe that these grow inside....Which one? Can I do it here????


Hap

I am by far NOT the MG expert here, but... I have grown the common heavenly blue and scarlet o'hara in containers, started indoors during the very early spring and moved out onto a patio for the summer. They seem to need more sun than they can get indoors for them to bloom. Maybe if they vine around a very sunny window they would do ok? Ones that I had under a tree bloomed lightly, but the ones in moderately full sun bloomed much better. Neither did as well as ones growing in the ground. I brought the potted ones inside during the fall, but they did not over winter well and I ended up just starting new ones the next spring. The ones outdoors reseeded themselves enough to almost be called pests (but they are so lovely, I can't imagine calling them "weeds"!)

Thanks.....I think I'll keep them outside...

Hap

They are kind of easy to grow indoors. Try this web site for a reference:

http://protist.i.hosei.ac.jp/Asagao/Yoneda_DB/E/Introduction/htmls/37.html

Thank you...interesting article.

Hap

You're welcome...if you grow indoors you have to be willing to prune the vines so they don't get out of hand. You ought to get bigger flowers that way.

Our winter have been the worst possible for indoor growing, since Nov 1:st we have only had about 20 days of sunshine. That is absolutely not normal, some of my plants that I have had for years have died due to lack of daylight.
but yet I did grow some MG:s most of the have come up and just put there first real leaves out and then come to total halt, nothing.
However this "Chocolate" standing in the window with only a small light bulb above have manage to do this. Found these today :0))
Janett

Its not a big plant and it managed to prune itself :)) a couple of times by get burnt by the bulb.

That will teach it....lol

Did you see the tiny buds in the first pic? and Oh yes dont play with the "hot stuff" :))
Janett

I saw flower buds, Janett, congratulations! Let's see flowers soon!!!!!

Joseph

Cant wait to see the flowers but I don't expect them to come fully true to its colour because of the lack of natural light, I know the leaves haven't so I think they will be paler.
Janett

Way to go, Janett! Pls post pics when in bloom!
:) Dona

I grew a morning glory in a pot over the summer and brought it in after I thought the frost had killed it. I just wanted to see if the plant might still be alive. I have it in the birdroom so I never shut the blinds. They are on daylight hours and not artificial light normally.
It surprised me when it started to get leaves growing from the woody base. Then I left it just do its thing. This is an old picture from January. It flowers and I pollinate the flower with a little stick I swish around in the flower. The pods have swollen, so I suppose the pollination was successful.
I know where I can get a fritillary butterfly crysallis to open in there, to pollinate for me. LOL But I am afraid it might find its way into a bird's mouth so will leave it to open in spring. Not sure what kind of MG this is. It has a woody base that is about seven inches or so out of the soil and the new leaves came from this. It has since sent out another "branch" and has grown around the window blinds. Quite a nice sight to see in the dead of winter here.
I feed it a rose food made for all flowering plants. I know mg's like plain soil to give flowers, but this is a flower fertilizer type.