Seed Give Away JMG cross pink blizzard x purple blizzard F2

i dmailed mine to you and thxs sorry been gone alday and will be gone again until friday thxs
p.s. if you didnt get dmail my addy is in the exchange

Yup, it was the other Karen.. sorry about that, boy, I thought that Postal Service sure is getting their act together, wow , two hours..lol

Good to hear that. I`m certainly not a majician. ha :)

I`m getting the last three packages of seeds ready and they will go out in the morning.

Seeds arrived!! Thanks so much! I am heading to the nursery to get more 5 gallon buckets...YEA@!

My seeds arrived also. : )
~Lucy

Wow, now that is quick! I do have one more person I don`t have a mailing address.

perennialgirl

Could someone explain what the Exchange is and how do I look it up? I sent perennialgirl a Dmail and now I`m waiting for a reply...or maybe I could look her up int he exchange but I don`t know how to do that yet.

I have some of the seeds planted and already I see the cotyledons. This should be really neat. I have a feeling most will look blizzard purple like the parent but also we sould see some pink and possibly more variations depending on what genes these flowers have.

Karen

I'll email it to you and directions.

Thanks very much. I`m in the exchange now. Karen

Got the seeds today, they're going in a pot as soon as it cools off. Thank you bunches.

Karen got my seeds today. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

Karen,
Got my seeds today also.. thank you..
A.

Me too!! Thanks a big bunch!!

Karen
I posed this question in another thread, let me ask it of you since it involves your seeds. We won't likely get a frost until late Oct./early Nov. Do you think that I have time to get these in the ground? Or should I wait till Spring?

Anne

You could put them in a 4 to 5 gallon pot with a trellis arrangement and let it grow on that and don`t allow it to climb on anything else so you can bring it inside to finish making seeds. There is time to see what color the flowers are but you may have to bring it in for the seed pods to finish.

It takes 6-8 weeks for blooming so if you planted now they should begin to bloom in mid to late September. Then pods should be getting ready the next month from mid October through November.

For me in zone 8b this is ideal since it isn`t as hot and the flowers are pretty. I`m planting anything I want seeds from right now. I`m planning for fall so I`m pruning,weeding and clearing out grow outs that didn`t make the cut and harvesting pods from planned crosses and back crosses to do more growing right now. I have to get everything planted within the next few weeks.

Karen




This message was edited Jul 13, 2007 10:46 AM

I'm in 8b as well, although for some reason it's not showing it for me.

Anne

Karen,
I got my seeds in the mail this afternoon. Thank you very much for these. There were five plump black seeds in a very large bubble mailer. They do make smaller ones you know :)

I've got all 5 seeds soaking tonight for planting tomorrow. I pray I can get some seeds before the cold rolls in. Hopefully I will be able to get some results for you before season's end. When I do I'll be sure to post pics. I'll update from time to time with growth and such as well.

Thanks again.
-Andrew

AuntAnne,
go to the top and click on MY Info
then click on Manage your Preferences
then click on Your Location and you have to scroll down a little bit, and you have to enter your Zone yourself.

Hope that helps..
A.

Those bubble mailers were what I had and I got them very,very cheap in bulk (you can reuse them so good gift for you too.) ha :)

Thank you Gourd, got it.

Mine are here! I'll try and get them sowed this week. LOL, very large mailer :)

Karen -

Got my seeds today! Thank you!

Mine arrived too! Thanks so much. Will soak them tonight and plant up Sunday.
Arlene

Karen, you are the most generous gardening person I have met on internet. At first I was hesitant about getting it to blooom here. But then I had a Sibori Flaked bloom while I was too busy to photo it. I started it in the last few weeks of March and it bloomed 10 July , so there is still hope for us up this far north. I feel so much more positive now about blooming the nhils here in Oregon. Especially after that stunning photo from 2 degrees south of me with that Sun Smile Violet.
I hope all my sun smile violet seeds bloom exactly like that.

Keep up that snappy pace girl, this forum would be so boring without you............ and the others like you that do so much to keep it interesting. 46 degrees Frank

You know I didn`t want those seeds to get lost in the mail...I figure the postman can see the envelope. Gee, I thought of painting them in fluorescent colors but I restrained myself.

I`m glad they are arriving so quickly. I hope they do good. :)

You did your babies good, Karen. They had room to stretch out and relax on their trips. LOL : )
Gonna plant mine today. ~Lucy

Karen - I got mine yesterday in the mail and will be planting them today. I just need to clarify .... are mine hand-pollinated or open pollination?
http://davesgarden.com/forums/p.php?pid=3715250

Thank you for allowing me to participate in this grow out! :-)

This message was edited Jul 15, 2007 9:58 AM

All were hand pollinated. I had just enough ready to send to everyone who responded. That is over 100 seeds.

The plant has finished blooming and is going completely to seed right now. It looks rough but I have to at least allow it to stay put until my seeds are finished. The life cycle is almost finished for this vine. I would have already cleaned up the finished vine if I was not waiting for seeds.

Now I will clean up the mess and start over with more marked seedling in this pot. I always mark the seedling with a yarn loosely tied with plenty of room for the plant to grow at the bottom so no volunteers will confuse the results of the grow out.

In this picture you can see the bamboo tee pee in the 4 gallon pot idea. It is anchored into the dirt to keep it from blowing over.






This message was edited Jul 17, 2007 10:21 AM

these are the seed pods.

Thanks, Karen! The picture of your pot was just what I needed to see! I think I am going to do several pots like that to grow your seeds and some other seeds I received from DGers here! :-) How long are the bamboo sticks? 5-6'?

Do they do best if their roots are shaded from the sun? Or is it better for them to get morning sun and afternoon shade? Right now mine along the fence get sun pretty much all day and look really limp from the direct sunlight by mid-afternoon. The heat here is just frying them even with afternoon watering. :-( I ask about the shaded roots, because the ones in my garden bed that have root shade (cast from other plants next to them) seem to be holding up much better.

beckgardener, Are they going to seed? Do you see a lot of pods on them turning brown? No ammount of care will stop the life cycle. When they go to seed they will gradually loose vigor and die. When and how this process goes on is affected by genetics and somewhat by growing conditions among other factors. The vine goes to seed and dies. Then the seed pods provide seeds for new growth to begin.

Protect them from any extreme heat. Too hot is bad for them but they are full sun plants. Afternoon shade is beneficial but take care they are not too shaded or you will get puny vines and few or no flowers.

I like to use a pot with the bottom cut out to place around the rim of the pot where the vines are growing to help keep the roots cooler.

Note there is a short cage made of fencing around the bottom to protect from critters such as dogs and cats and this also helps them have something to hold on to as they begin to grow. As far as measurement of the poles you can just go by what you see and happen to be working with. The sticks should be stuck into the pot going to bottom and the pot needs to be anchored in the spot where you are going to grow the flowers.

They bloom about 8 weeks with amazing flushes of flowers typical of the JMG follewed by slowing down and finally going to seed. If you just want flowers then you can pick some seeds off to plant later and clean up the finished vine to start again.

I like doing a spring and fall crop.

This message was edited Jul 15, 2007 9:54 AM

Also you need to spray for insect and fungus prevention every 10- 14 days especially after it rains or if your climate has high humidity. You can try anything you`d like but experiment on a few leaves first. Apply any wet treatments in late afternoon when the flowers are closed. This helps keep from disturbing bees in the morning.

Thanks, Karen. All the ones I have grown so far this year have put out lots of seeds, except the mounding MGs. They maybe produced one pod and then literally died. The rest have climbed up the trellises along the fence and bloomed nicely, but they must be finishing their life cycle because they are looking brown and not producing anything except seeds. I thought they would live much longer. They've been in the ground about 3 1/2 months now (from seed). So perhaps that is the typical cycle for them?

The cycle of growth,blooming,going to seed and dying off varies I`m sure between different kinds of morning glories.

This parent plant took about 6 weeks to bloom and then it bloomed and was beautiful for 8 weeks and then went to seed and began to die off.

Sometimes I pick seeds until the plant is becoming a eye sore then I clean it out and start over.

Karen,
What do you spray your Morning Glory vines with?

Emma

gardener2005
go to your home page and look at the top of the page where you see "extras" click on it and the scroll down to where it says "address exchange" and click on it then scroll down to the name youre searching for and click on it and it will give you their address
i hope this makes since

soaked my seeds and sowed them this morning... looks like we are all starting them around the same time..
A.

Hi Karen,

Just a note to let you know that your seeds have arrived. We do not check our PO Box every day.....but they arrived!

I have not decided if I will start them now, or wait til spring. Thanks again for presenting me the delema!

Arlan

I sowed mine yesterday!

Mine today.

Sowed mine yesterday morning after soaking, and - my goodness - their little helmets are rising above the perlite :)

With our horrendous humidity, I have found that the nils do best when grown one to an upright and then up over the cross bar over a garden path where it gets maximum aeration - this works much better for us than growing the vines where they have to share space with another MG (although they're close enough to each other for the overall effect to be that of a pergola). For I. purpurea, tricolor, youjiro and others, this hasn't been so critical.

As I walk through the garden, I pick off any diseased leaves - so far, the vines are producing new leaves faster than their older leaves can get too persnickety. I hate to jeopardize the health of visiting hummingbirds and living things in general by adding more chemicals via our personal green paradise to an already super-saturated globe.

Hope y'all don't mind my 2 cents.

Thanks, Karen - your grow-outs are fascinating. Emma, how about starting one for your Henka offspring? Some of us are growing out your seeds, too, and would love to see how those genetics are playing out.

Karen