Do i, don't i. Sowing now?? Hanging on?

We keep having nice bright days and sat inside looking out it seems perfect. But nigh time its cold again.

Shall i hang on a bit longer or sow indoors now? If i sow indoors they grow stragely so will have to go straight out into an unheated greenhouse.

Here is a link to my weather. http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/5day.shtml?id=2562

Here is my Mg's i want to sow!

Ipomoea cameo elegance
Ipomoea Caprice
Ipomoea cardinal climber
Ipomoea Chocolate rose silk
Ipomoea flying saucers
Ipomoea hederafolia red
Ipomoea hederifolia var lutea
Ipomoea Heian No Umi
Ipomoea ivy leaf blue
Ipomoea Lacunosa
Ipomoea lavender moonvine
Ipomoea lobata (Mina lobata)
Ipomoea milky way
Ipomoea multifida
Ipomoea purp Sunrise serenade
Ipomoea purpurea heavenly blue
Ipomoea quamoclit
Ipomoea shibouri
Ipomoea split blue
Ipomoea split personality
Ipomoea star of yelta
Ipomoea sunspots
Ipomoea tricolor blues band
Ipomoea tye dye


Do i brave it?

Cheers

Mike

Hi Mike
I started mine in Feb last year and they wherent so hard to keep in line, I added one long stick in each pot for them to grow on untill planting outside.
Since you are a few weeks earlier then me to the "safe" time to plant outside I would go for it now. I grew mine inside under nomal tube bulb lights.
Good luck
Janett

Cheers Janet, But i don't have the room under lights. Im talking the minute i see them poke there heads up they have to go into the cold greenhouse! brrrrrrr.
Mike

i think you should wait a few weeks mike

Yeah just so you can tease me. As normal...... Paul fancy swapping houses???

Mike

LOL

Infact you can still live in your house i just want your garden..... no just your climate! Unless you have a gorgeous wife then.... hey just a thought. lol

hehe me too wanna trade climat, to darn cold up here.
Mike I forgot to tell you ..the reason I had them under light is that the room I had the pots in never get sunlight/direct daylight since its a nirth windiw shaded totally by the garage.
The ones I had in my livingroom didnt need the light (south) and they did well untill planting outdoors.

Cant you run a lose electric cable to the greenhouse and have a frostguard heater in there?
Janett

We had a frost last night and another on its way tonight... think i'll hang on. I'm hoping to get electric to the greenhouse permanent i got the cable laid but i'm a bit chicken about hooking it up to the mains fuse box!

I hate gas and lecky.. they both kill without warning.. at least plumbing you just get wet.

Mike

With your (UK) safety on electic things with the little fuse in all electric contacts I wouldnt worry at all to put eletricity in the greenhouse. Its very hard to die or get really hurt by UK electicity in differense from here............ dont take out the bulbs in the lamp above the bed to change it just to discover you are out of bulbs and forget about it and not unplug the lamp..... just to wake up next morning and streach up you arms and accodently "hit" right into the lamp and get electicuted. AOUCH couldnt use my arm in two weeks.

Gas....makes me think BIG BANG :0) scary.
Janett

ILOL, you guys . I'm a bigger chicken when it comes to electricity. I think we've all been watching too many movies about the gas. At least I have, as the flame did go out in my green house one night, and I had visions of that light bulb senario as I unwittingly open the door...sniff..what's that smell. I opened it up and exited in a hurry..I even turned off the power before I went back..LOL..


I had that similar issue last year, I didn't want to keep them in the green house..too cold, but Iwhen it warms up here..ya have to be ready to put them in the ground. I bought some patio end tables at the thrift shop, and had the MG's out on the front porch during the day, and then just opened the front door and kept them in the house over night. Now this worked for me just fine, but non garden folks tend to get a little testey, but ..it's just a couple weeks. Of course last year, was the first time I grew morning glories..so I had child like impatience. I didn't realize there were so many different patterns and colors. I haven't even started mine this year. I did direct sow a few that I noticed are coming up. I think I just figured out what this vine I have growing is from your list Mike...does this look like Ipomoea lobata (Mina lobata) to you?
I bought a packet of seeds in Amsterdamn a couple of years ago. Ths leaf shape is unfamilar and I've been wondering what could possibly so eagar to be growing so fast, when the rest of the garden is barely waking up.

here's pick......matter of fact I think I will take trip to PF now.

Mike says,"I hate gas and lecky.. they both kill without warning.. at least plumbing you just get wet."
Well, not if someone grounded your electrical system to a metal pipe under your house! LOL

aaah...my trip to the plantfiles shows very different leaves...back to wondering about the mystery vine.

HEY MIKE

RJ - The mystery vine you posted is not anything in the MG family...it looks like honeysuckle...

TTY,...

Ron

Really, that is the same picture I sent you before...I don't even know what honeysuckle is. I will let you know when the mystery plant blooms..

Mike Gas is The Safest and the Best and you can Smell gas to if it Leaks what you smell is sime thing they add to it most new propane heaters have a Auto shut off if some thing goes wrong Paul

I know what the mystery bloom is! Its Cobea scandens! Mine where rubbish last year but at one point i thought they might make it through the winter (just).

Paul ... i'm not even going to comment now... is that a recent picture?

I'm going to sow them this weekend! lol I can't wait now.

Mike

Thanks MIke..now I'm going to check the files

ah...that was bit of a delayed reaction I'd say. I direct sowed that last spring.

So do you think its the one?
They do have a fuuny seed coat that needs to break down before they germinate. But a year!
Mike

RJ - are you saying that I identified the mystery plant here
http://pics.davesgarden.com/pics/rjuddharrison_1173819663_52.jpg
as some type of Convolvulaceae(?)...if so,there must be a mistake >because all Convolvulaceae have alternate leaves and that is one of the most basic things that I look for...

TTY,...

Ron

No Ron, you did not identify the mystery plant...you were speaking of something else.. you simply identified it as what it is not Convolvulaceae..-l..LOL are you kidding ? Had you identified it, I wouldn' be here asking.

Mike
I did plant a packet last spring. I had so many morning glories in and out of the house by then, I decided to try direct sow. I figured that it was too hot here for them. I wish the seed packets would have foliage pictures sometimes.!

Rj

Yes Mike i took the Pic The other day

Not sure i like you anymore Paul. lol