Morning Glories 2006 #2

Here we where
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Can you tell this plant actually is over 6 month old..........didnt think so. hehe The trellis is 1 1/5 ft. When it had put up its first real leaves my DD:s dog came in to the room happy as a clam wagging her tail and nocked the little seedling off. The whole root went leaving just about 2 mm of a sideroot If I remember correctly it was my very first MG to sprout.
I tought it was a gonner, but never give up :0)) I took the small bashed seedling and made a hole in the dirt put it in there and carefully watered the dirt down around it so I wouldnt brake the itty bitty root that was left. As you can see it survived but it will never get big but boy does she put up flowers. AND pods.
Janett

Pic is from two weeks ago

That is really pretty even if she is small.

Your very own mini-mg. Very pretty.

Jackie

Nice JMG there, Janett! Classic flower form and rich color.

Joseph

You should market your trellises in your country, surely there are other morning glory fanatics who would like to grow them indoors as you did this past winter.

Thanks, she has become somewhat of a bonsai version MG.
Here is todays flowers 4 out of 6 on midnight. Took her outside for this pic.
Janett

I think the pink picotee is lovely there and she has a delicate beauty that I appreciate very much. I`m completely sold on trying these indoors this winter just to see how they do and get a sneak peek at flower colors from my seeds while I`m waiting on the warm weather to return.

Midnight is beautiful too. That is a great color!

Minibar rose.

More Minibar Rose.

Kevin, Your mini-bar rose is lovely.

Jackie

Kevis, she is lovely.
Is it a hanging basket you grow her in, if so I have to remember that to next summer. Currently have the ordinary Petunias growing in them, but if I can have MG:s in them instead................SO much better.
Janett

Janett,
Yes, it is a hanging basket.
The Minibar Rose does not seem to twine very agressively so it works well.

Really nice pictures, Kevin, perfect for a seed packet!

I wish I had photos, but just have leaves right now. I saw a flower bud on the Ipomoea spp. Ethiopia today so that was exciting! I am starting a few new species of Ipomoea so hopefully they will flower this year (I. lacunosa and I. spp. 'Red Burst').

Keep the pictures coming!

Joseph

Oh have I got a pic for you rotflol
now even the flowers have gone "bonsai" on me :)) Todays Picotee
Janett

Here it shows the real size
Janett

Janett - it looks your plants are producing a cleistogamic variation...usuallt triggered by the plant senseing an unusual change in the environment...

TTY,...

Ron

I got more blooms this morning. This one says Heian Umi on the tag. If anyone can tell me for sure then that would be great.

A close up of Ukigumo.

Both mg's lovely. Sorry I can't help with the ID

Jackie

That is ok about the ID. I enjoy taking the pictures and I guess I better since they do not last very long. One must capture the moment.

gardener2005 - your MG looks like either Heian no Umi or Heian no Izumi...hard to say for certain because of the number of blooms where the color overlaps,although the blooms you have pictured there seem to have a bit of a larger white area around the throat...

The Ukigumo looks very vivid(!) and a nice blend of the blueish shades...

TTY,...

Ron

Green Morning Glory -
Neat huh!

Emma

Did you get a new graphics program, Emma? LOL

Hehe Joseph or did she spray it with messenger as we all know it can mess up coclours,rotflol
Janett

Aaaah, Joseph, you figured me out -
and This bloom is from your Umi seeds from 2004.
But, isn't that awesome!

Emma

I did look twice at the green morning glory. :) ha

Here are more beautiful flowers I found in the mixed "no telling what all" monstrosity of a pile of vines. This one is Akatsuki no Umi and the other one favors Akatsuki No Umi and has the same variegated leaves but has a lighter blue with aqua blue striping. This is a first bloom and I wonder is it tie dye? I love it and can`t wait to see more blooms from this one.


This one I believe is Akatsuki No Umi

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This message was edited Jun 29, 2006 4:36 PM

This one is the one that favors the Akatsuki No Umi exept this one is lighter blue and has markings.

gardener2005 - the second bloom that is a lighter blue looks like it has a blizzard gene in it...and unless it is just a temporary fluke,will most likely continue to display the lighter streaking consistent with one of the several blizzard types...

Some of the blizzard types will display the streaking on the first flush,while other blizzard types will only display the streaking on later flushes as the vine matures...

You've got some flowers either way...

TTY,...

Ron

Those are lovely. I think the blues are my favorite glory's

Jackie

Thanks! Forgive my typing. Here is...are flower...I mean flowers..err blue flowers. :)

So this is Akatsuki no Umi with a possibly unstable gene or mutation like some of the others I saw in the plant files. That is interesting and will be fun to find out if it occurs again in further genrations.

I marked those flowers with a small tag to ID what kind they were and will mark the ones I see for reference. I will save all the marked pods to grow again to see if the pattern repeats and probably the rest will be named a mix of "no telling what all" seeds.

I plan to get all the pods I can find this year so there will not be a lot of little unknown volunteers next year. It might be tough to get the pods on this monster vine heading its way up to the rooftop...that was this morning and boy is it growing with all this nice rain we got. :)




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gardener2005 - The Akatsuki no Umi isn't a blizzard type,so as I mentioned

" unless it is just a temporary fluke,will most likely continue to display the lighter streaking consistent with one of the several blizzard types...


The prescence of a blizzard gene with typical persisting concommitant streaking would mean that the flower is not an Akatsuki no Umi...any of the Ipomoea nils can pick up a blizzard gene from another Ipomoea nil,and the result is often an interesting but typically unstable cross...

TTY,..

Ron

OK..so it might possibly be related to Akatsuki no Umi because it sure favors the one I have an awful lot but is a mixed breed with another type. Sort of like a peke a poo is related to a pekinese but it isn`t a pekinese any more? Maybe? Time and planting more seeds will tell what is up with this flower.

I understand somewhat how flowers with the blizzard gene look because I`m seeing the Ukigumo start out with some flowers almost solid blue and some more blizzardy and over time more of the flowers have a more intricate pattern more true to what is on the seed pack. The Ukigumo begins with some blooms blue with light streaks(some almost solid blue) and the more it blooms the more the blizzard pattern develops.







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Exactly...

Now guys, you have to start to convince me that MG:s are vigorous climbers. Mine are starting to look more and more like small bushes. They have been in the ground for nearly two months and this is how "far" they have come.
here is "Jamie Lynn"
Janett

This is "Kanoko" . All my MG:s look as bushy as these two.
Janett

Here is Ipomoea spp. Ethiopia, nice cordate leaves, no flowers yet.

Joseph

[edited to correct identity of plant, took too many pictures at once. Gypsy Bride also has nice cordate leaves, too.]


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Here is Shiborazaki JMG, no flowers yet, but in this seed mix there will be some different ones...look at the nice differences in the leaves.

Joseph

Check out this picture set of the leaves of a MG I got in a trade from a Chinese gardener. Xiong's Chinese Morning Glory hasn't flowered yet, but it has produced some very interesting leaves. The first leaves are "normal", in the way JMG leaves appear or Laurrie's Berry Ice (see attached photo).

Then these curvy concave leaves started to develop. At first I thought it was a mite infestation, but no sign of those varmints on the leaves.

Joseph

And another image of the curved leaf of this CMG.