With over 100 replies we better start a new thread! I`m in a big hurry so I`ll do this quickly. I thought this bright,bright pink flower was worth a closer look. :)
If you want to go back to Morning Glories 2007 # 03 go here:
http://davesgarden.com/forums/t/726145/
Center of I. nil Cornell
I love the shimmer on the cornell. It`s a beauty!
Pretty blue flower open this morning.
Another blue.
Ooh, I like the blues . . .
Here's a bloom from this morning - just over 3 1/2" across .
pretty blooms all!
Joanne
Thanks Joseph!
I noticed this morning there are pre-buds on my Gypsy Bride. So, soon I should have something to post besides chachamaru!
Nichole
This came from seed labeled "Nanaba"....beautiful flower..not what I expected. In the garden this morning this bloom looked like it was made from velvet.
Here is a trio of another flower not at all close to the purchased seed name....but I like it!
This is a seed packet mate to the above plant....it too does not have the white flower with pink center.... I think this could be an F1 hybrid though.
This is a nice small ruffled darker blue from a Kyushu University mix.
..a brown Kodachi
a nice blue Kikyou, true from last year's plant.
...and finally , a nice red Kikyou from Karen's seed...!! I really like this color.
Arlan
Those are beautiful pictures. The blues are hard to resist.
Arlan, I have found two speckled varieties I bought from a (now obviously) open pollinated source to be blizzard pink and another one looked like your lavender with white picotee. I might go ahead and collect 7 or 8 hand pollinated pods and see if a grow out will produce 3-4 plants producing speckled flowers. I sure hope so!
Now my convictions are stronger that open pollinated seeds should be discarded or shared as part of an open pollinated mixture. Test growing would help show exactly what is in a batch of seeds and avoid disapointment if they are to be shared with someone else.
Everything has not bloomed so I`ll post pictures if something speckled shows up. :)
This message was edited Jun 2, 2007 3:03 PM
Hi Karen,
I agree that open pollinated flowers..especially the low fertility large flowered varieties, will produce suspect seed.
I have a similar situation with trying to obtain speckled flowered plants. Here are the flowers I'm getting from my Shikanoko seed.... Like you, a pink blizzard type and a solid colored white margin flower. I too am hoping that they infact came from a speckled plant and will do a grow out next year from these plants in hopes of retreiving the specks.
I did have another speckled plant bllooming yesterday when I got home in the afternoon...a purple speckled reverse tube plant. the first flower had no specks, and this one has a few very fine specks.....(thanks Joseph for the seed!..I have two of your babies growing along side the Q0751 which also bloomed yesterday, but with no specks yet...just the creamish yellow flower - a good sign!)
Arlan
Arlan, that small ruffled looks great. I also like that pink Kikyou from Karen's seed.
This one from today.... Kawaii - Komeri seeds, is a split petal. I still haven't gotten used to how short this plant is and with all those buds.
A, I'm growing the Kawaii mix this year also. So far I have not seen the split flower, which is one of the things that attracted me to it..! I like the color of yours and the lack of a strong white tube.
The small ruffled flower grabbed my attention also this morning. It has six rays which usually equates to a much larger flower...it also has a broad white throat which I think looks proportionally different on the small flower.
Arlan
A & Arlen, is Kawaii typically short? Do you think it's best grown upright, or could it be grown hanging down a 2' wall without taking up much horizontal space on the terrace below?
Arlan, that velvet Nanaba has patterns that look like the wood grain that Japanese Edo artists used to incorporate into their woodcuts. I like the way you discuss how genes relate to some of the pics you post - which ones are dominant or related to some characteristic, etc. - hope you keep it up.
The first true leaves are appearing on our cotyledons here - y'all certainly do raise the level of anticipation with all these great pics of your MG flowers.
Here is a woodcut where the wood grain makes the morning glories look as if they were blooming over water from www.artelino.com (can't find this there, again, though) - no information about it given
bluespiral, Kawaii, like other strains with the dwarf (dw) gene, Kodachi, Sunsmile, Carol etc.. are often also referred to as "creepers". I have never tried to grow them upright, as the stems are thick and don't twine very well. Others may have. They also do not grow very long, maybe 5-6 feet at the most. I think growing them over a wall would be ideal. Some judicious pinching should easily contain them to the area desired.
I have always enjoyed the old wood cuts and prints depicting Japanese Morning Glories. Some of them give me ideas of what would be interesting attempt to recreate again in living plants.
I don't know if Nanaba is the correct name for the plant I have, even though that is what the seed was labeled as. It's bud the other evening gave me chills of anticipation. I don't think I have seen such intense color in a JMG...a deep, dark burgundy on a portion of the corolla showing...
Arlan
This is Heian No Izume (spelling?) that I`m proud of because this is the third time it has come back true with hand pollination.
Arlan, The Kawaii begins with a split flower and gradually with more blooms it gets fuller and more "ruffly" looking. That was my observation with the pink Kawaii.
This message was edited Jun 3, 2007 5:26 PM
Check out this Kawaii pink one of the first few blooms.
This message was edited Jun 3, 2007 2:13 PM
And now here is the same plant a little more than 2 weeks later. I like it. I think these are nice. Ignore the yarn in the picture. :)
I`m gone for the day. See ya`ll later!
This message was edited Jun 3, 2007 2:11 PM
Almost looks like a petunia; nice ruffles.
Joanne
Thanks for the answers and insights, all. Karen, you're running extraordinary threads.
bluespiral,
Ya`ll make the great threads possible. This is a team effort. It can`t be done without everyone working taking care of the gardens and taking the time and trouble to get these pictures. I`m really just sitting back enjoying the next picture and story that I will find next when I come visit over here. :)
Karen
Love the blooms, great pics too.
#1 Chachamaru without tube.. looking pretty.. hopefully I get at least a couple of seeds.. there are a couple of vines in this pot, some are throwing out the Dai tube.
#2 from today.. is Blue Silk NOT... lol. I get alot of NOTs.. there are two vines in this pot also, so there is a little bit of hope of getting at least one Blue Silk. This looks like one of the Yuki's or Yumies.
#3 from today Double Red Picotee NOT.. anyone have an ID on this one?
#4 from today..Fuji Musume
#5 Bloom in the Fuji Musume pot, a blue with picotee edge.. This one was confusing me, when it bloomed I did call it Fuji Musume in the last MG post #2 because I thought the color was off and did not think to see if there were two vines in that pot..
Need I D on this one also.
#6 Fuji Musume and Blue Friend..
#7 Joyce Cobb and Friend peeking out.
#8 Kawaii Komeri seed.. from this morning
#9 Picotee Mix - Komeri seed with Dai Tube
Just had to put it in here so it won't get lost in my post. It's too pretty.
#10 Picotee Mix - Komeri seed without Dai Tube
#11 blooms from two days ago.. last but not least:
Cornell aka Red Cornell with Dai Tube
