First MG ever! JMG grown from seed and blooming indoors

Here is a staged photo of my very first Morning Glory, ever! I've never grown them before, although I have enough bindweed here to possibly qualify into the Hall of Fame. When I say staged, I brought it into the room from a south-facing window and turned it toward the camera. In reality, the whole thing faces the light, and away from the room.

I got the seeds from Ronnie (LuvsgrtDanes) and also the coffee filter H2O2 directions from her, also, and it was actually easier, and faster, than Nasturtiums. The photo shows 2 plants that I pinched (also in the directions).

The flower is much more purple, and a more saturated color, than my camera caught, and I believe it was a little too late in the morning to snap the photo as the flower appears to be waning. There are many more buds, but none that will open within the next 2 or 3 days and I was too excited to wait for a good picture of the bloom.

Suzy

And here is the bloom closeup. I'm not sure why I am posting this -- the flower looks nothing like it. LoL! It's almost 2:30 and still open, but alas! no better looking.

Suzy

It looks great, nice and healthy too..
good job..
A.

That's still a beautiful photo:)

Way to go Suzy!!! I'm so proud!! LOL It's so healthy looking. Some of mine are just starting to bud up. When did you start them?

It is a beautiful flower! I particularly like the use of the natural stick as a support! Congratulations! - Arlan

You go girl!! The bloom is very pretty. I know what you mean about not getting the true color.

Suzy post how Ronnie does the coffee filter method. I've never started seeds that way but want to. Got the filters and the ziplock bags.

:) Donna

Suzy, looks like your inaugural morning glory has your "summer" off to a great start :) May you become as "hooked" as the rest of us are. My crystal ball is predicting many more firsts for you in this coming year.

Does anyone else remember their first morning glory, too? Mine was Ipomoea tricolor 'Heavenly Blue' along a 50' stretch of chain link fence. One of the neighborhood ne'er-do-wells who used to use me for target practice with his air gun (he was part of a thuggy group that also liked throwing bricks into windows) whenever I tried to garden actually came up to me and said they were the most beautiful flowers he had ever seen. I guess it just goes to show how little we can assume from someone's manifest behavior. I have yet to scrape my jaw off the ground over that one. Morning glories are truly transforming.

good moral to that story....thanks for sharing!!!!!

Congratulations! What a nice happy looking flower!

Joseph

bluespiral wrote: Does anyone else remember their first morning glory, too?
My first experience with MG's was as a child playing in a vacant lot in the CA neighborhood. It was on a slope and the blue MG's had totally covered the lot, climbing up telephone poles and shrubs. Us kids tunneled under the vines and dug caves with seating and shelves out of the soil. We had our own secret city under there. It remained wild until a few years ago when I visited back home and saw a house had been built there. I don't know if the vines were Heavenly Blue or Blue Dawn, but I am thinking they were HB. I never saw the purplish cast that BD gets later in the day. Of course, in CA they grew almost all year long with no freezes to worry about.
Beth

Way to go Suzy,


OOOOOOh yes my 1st morning glory also the amazing and beautiful Heavenly Blue, on a 12' fence. Not knowing what I was getting into I planted 9 of them there and my goodness dont think I needed that many. But after a bad start with nutrition and Ron setting me straight they were so delightful. That I am so hooked that I have about 300 seeds that have germinated in the last few days. Now the trick is to keep them growing. 63 different babies. I will use NO not 9 per section but maybe 3 this time and line my entire back yards chainlink fence. Covering that ugly rusting thing. I am so hooooooooooked love them

Very nice photo set up!

I remember my first experience with morning glories quite well.

When I was very young, we lived in Schaumberg, Illinois, in a 2-story house, with a fence-enclosed patio. Along the edges, we had large buckets which sent morning glory vines climbing up wires on the fence, and produced tons of beautiful flowers all the time. The other day when I talked to my mom on the phone, I told her about my recent success with germinating morning glory seeds, thanks to the help that I got here at Dave's Garden. She asked me if I remembered the first morning glories we grew; I told her that I did, how we had them growing all over the fence of our patio at the Schaumberg house, and she replied:

"Those were clematis. We never grew morning glories until we moved to Texas."

Well you can't argue with your mom....

Yeah, but those clematis vines were some awfully nice morning glories.

What can I say - I was three years old when we moved.

-- Seamus

It is wonderful to see such a high level of friendly support on this first inside project. 12 people lined up to offer positive support and friendship. I love this forum for that quality and I hope it lasts forever. Nice picture of a plant that didn't goe nuts and take over a large space inside Suzy. But we would still like to know how long this actually took.
Did you write the date on a calendar, when you started it? We all want to do it now. Frank

Frank and all, so sorry I have been sick as a dog the past 3 or 4 days and just now following. I cannot find Ronnie's email! It was between Jan 5 and Jan 23, but I can't get any closer to the actual date than that.

Suzy

Beautiful indoor MG. Hope you are hooked! Some of the Japanese blooms are so large that they "flop". This isn't anything you did wrong, just the type of bloom they produce.

Wow, you've inspired me to try growing one indoors. Did you just put it in a large pot or start with a small pot and transplant? I need a morning glory fix!
My first MG was probably 10 years ago at another house. It was a Heavenly Blue too! We loved it and the hummingbirds loved it.
At this house, I put a lot of seeds in a large tree type container with a trellis in it in front of my garage. Next I strung some twine on the garage on nails that I pounded in just for the MGs (my poor DH!!). I had to guide the MGs up the twine but it was worth it. I was trying to get it to grow over my garage door but the MG wasn't going to grow that high. I still loved seeing it every time I pulled in the driveway.

HT128, I did the H2O2 soak & started with 3 seeds in a coffee filter. The coffee filter goes in the baggie. I only did 3 seeds because the were JMG and I didn't want to waste any. When they sprouted, I slipped them in a pot with soilless mix and stuck a tree branch in there for them to climb. I had an accident and one seedling bit the dust.

When they get 6 or 7 leaves, or nodes, you're supposed to pinch them. So I did, and they almost immediately set buds, although it was a long time before the buds showed color.

The leaves are so weird! They are sort of crispy and hairy. I never knew that about MGs.

Suzy