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missylickle Montchanin, DE Jul 16, 2006

why do my "heavenly blue" often bloom deep purple???? Such a disappointment!!

RON_CONVOLVULACEAE Netcong, NJ(Zone 5b) Jul 17, 2006

missylickle - Hi(!) Welcome to the MG forum(!)...

Do you have any photos that you can post of your deep purple 'Heavenly Blue'...I'd really like to see them...it may be that you have a very dark cultivar of the new 'improved' type as shown in the PlantFiles here
http://davesgarden.com/pf/showimage/85926/
http://davesgarden.com/pf/showimage/20964/
http://davesgarden.com/pf/showimage/28854/

Here are a few links to photos closer to earlier version which is more of a baby blue...
http://davesgarden.com/pf/showimage/23444/
http://davesgarden.com/pf/showimage/21088/
http://davesgarden.com/pf/showimage/57561/
http://davesgarden.com/pf/showimage/98989/

It is also possible that the seed package may have been mislabeled or contained seeds of a different species...
Please note that Ipomoea tricolor is completely glabrous(smooth,with no hair at all) on any of the plant parts...so if your plant has any(!) amount of hair or fuzz on it,it is a species other than Ipomoea tricolor...

Here are 2 closeups of the flowerbuds,seedpods and a very important ID feature which is the small leaflike sepals at the base of the aforementioned parts
http://davesgarden.com/pf/showimage/106781/
http://davesgarden.com/pf/showimage/98991/

Do the flowerbuds,seedpods and sepals on your plant look to be the same as in the reference photos that I linked to above(?)...

TTY,....

Ron

Jul 17, 2006

Hi Missylickle,

Greetings from another Delawarean and also welcome to DG MG forum!

Joseph

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