I have had two milestones today with my Q0426 plants. The first was discovering the first double flowered plant. This is a young seedling that is struggling for space amongst a throng of volunteers I decided to let live awhile! As you can see from the picture, there is quite an epidemic of rust also. Even though the flower is not fully formed, it is quite striking!
The second milestone is my first feathered flower from this same line. It is a bit crowded and didn't have enough room to fully develop, but it gives me a glimpse of what is to come....!
You can see a chronological picture history of this plant here: http://davesgarden.com/journal/edit/viewentry.php?rid=104398
Arlan
Arlan, I like the feathered but absolutely love the double.
Jackie
Gorgeous Arlan, what an absolutely wonderful shade of blue :)
Where do you order your seed? I notice it is numbered, not named...?
Thanks,
~Sunny
Thanks for the nice comments Jackie and Sunny!
Sunny, I really like that blue also! I got my seed by paying way too much on E-Bay!....but that is the only place I could find this type of seed. I'm very fortunate to have at least one double flowered plant, because the odds are not great when you get only 7 seeds! What is even better...This plant is second generation...so the seed I've saved could have it too!
Here is one of the single flowers from earlier this year.
Arlan
Thanks Arlan,
I'm a little shy about buying expensive seed on E-bay - unless I've seen it's a DG member. The blue is gorgeous and I love it even in the single. I just looked at your journal about this plant and the unusual leaves too. So this is a member of the ipomea nil family...I'll take note. I already adore the Rose and Blue silk in that group, I'll just have to add this one too!
This coming year will be my first time growing MG's on purpose-so far I've only had the volunteers (G. Otts) which came with the house we're renting. I've transplanted some random seedlings into pots and they are doing okay, just only one of them has bloomed - the other are just leafing like mad. I think it might be the fertilizer down deep in the bottom of the pots causing the leafing and not blooming - I forgot about that when making up the containers :( The one blooming was just tumped into a quart pot with some yard soil and it's doing it's thing...LOL. Oh well, live and learn I guess!
Thanks for the response,
~Sunny
What a delicious shade of blue! Beautiful double and feather forms.
I saw those on e-bay and had to immediatly leave my computer. Too expensive for this newbie.
But after I try starting some from seed next spring and actually succeed well e-bay watch out!!
Marie, I'm telling you... you and your black thumb can't go wrong with these babies... there's a reason they are illegal here and we all call them "morning roses"... lol... they grow like weeds...
Brittany
I have an alternative point of view on the origins and history of the restriction of Morning Glories in Arizona and elsewhere...
The laws related to the restriction of various Morning Glories in AZ dates back to the 1930's when cotton was being grown and a very(!) few(!) species (like Calystegia and Convolvulus species) would proliferate in these irrigation ditches and get entangled in the machinery used to maintain maximum water flow...
Cotton in no longer grown to any large extent,and the cotton industry along with the man-made irrigation ditches resulted in the importation/introduction and over-proliferation of of non-native water loving species...
The real facts are that many species of Morning Glories are not invasive at all...especially the rare arid types that are native to Arizona and now almost extinct...
The result of the antiquated laws has resulted in the over-reactionary destruction of any/all MG's in AZ,so that now there are extremely rare species that occur in the US only in AZ that are almost extinct...as no specimens of some species have been seen for several years...similar near extinctions of native non-invasive species has occured in New Mexico and Texas...
This type of situation is what occurs when big business propaganda is legislated into the laws that rule the land and mind sets of the people...
The US Government/Big business has done what is tantamount to >almost nothing to preserve the species on the verge of extinction...their 'preservation' efforts are often funded by the chemical companies who 'pretend' to be interested in the environment,but in actuality also fund many of the invasive/exotics studies >thereby selling more chemicals to eradicate 'invasive exotics'...
The vast majority of non-native plants that disturb the ecosystems are introduced by impurities in the agricultural seed supplies that originate from all over the world...the 'seed police' are unable to realistically do much of anything about the impurities in gigantic(!) supplies of seeds,but(!) they would project an 'image' of being 'truly' concerned and place emphasis on the 'home gardener'(!) to be extra-vigilant against 'invading exotics'...
It's the old "Do what I say and NOT what I do routine..." or >blaming the victim(!)...and we who do care about maintaining a healthy Green Earth are all the victims...
Big business does not care about the environment they care only about the monetary profits and their image which is all shine and no real substance...
"This type of situation is what occurs when big business propaganda is legislated into the laws that rule the land and mind sets of the people..."
TTY,...
Ron
Umm...
Brittany
Thanks everyone for the comments. I've really enjoyed the feathered flowers and dragon claw leaves, but will have to wait a bit before the plants grow enough to give room for the flowers to fully develop. These plants do grow more slowly than normal plants and are definitely a plant to grow in a pot to observe the neat details!
Joseph, yes you guessed the source correctly! I'm just hoping that I received enough seed originally to perpetuate the line, as both the double and the feathered flowers are sterile. I have not verified yet that I have both genes in the same plant.
A couple years ago I bought this Canon PowerShot Pro digital camera. I've been quite pleased with it...especially since I have learned how to better utilize it's macro capabilities. It is a very versitile camera...can be used as a point and shoot ...or one can control most of the variables for special situations. I've learned to overcome some of the limitations of the auto-focus... I miss the accuracy of the manual focus of my old SLR.
