Morning Glories 2008 #01

It sure is, Joanne - and you were my motivation to get started with it! About half the seed-types I've planted have sprouted so far. I put out some Star of Yelta seeds yesterday - I'm hoping they do as well! The rest of the mg seeds I start this year will be in the garage . . . I finally have one shop light up and running on the shelves I put inside. There is already a tray of seeds just waiting to sprout there . . . this weekend I'm hoping to get another heat mat and shop light, so I can start in on the mg's!

Emma, can I also please have the link where they are available. I just love all the Hige variety's I've seen.
MUST HAVE THEM ALL!!! lol!
Caren

Carnea blooming. Nothing special but glad to have blooms of any kind. LOL

OOH nice Jackie!! Greenhouse?

Ronnie, yes homemade g house. It's not pretty but effective in the winter which is
the only reason I needed one. No room in my small house. One day I
would love to have a sunroom or attached greenhouse. For now I'll just be
happy with what I've got. lol

Here are the beginnings of what I am starting under the lights in the garage: I. leptophylla

Cotyledons look a bit ragged.

I was worried when they came out of the soil separately, too.

Here is a Hederifolia var. lutea - this one only had cotyledon . . .

Emma I try to D-mail you It say´s that your accont not excist, I wonder if you still will receive seeds to Candy Pink and Scarlett O´hara?? You never answer me! ~Sylvia

hobbyodlaren
Linköping
(Sweden)
(Zone 5b)
December 3, 2007
7:51 AM
Hello Emma, we talk about this seeds earlier, I´ve bought on Ebay 20 seeds are you still interested to receive seeds. Or do you have candy pink yourself?
~Sylvia

Hello Sylvia,

I'm going to send you a dmail in a few minutes.

I think Emma has left DG - don't know the details. But I know many of us have benefitted from her generosity of sharing her seeds with us, as well as her knowledge and passion for morning glories.

Wherever you are, Emma, I wish you well and maybe we'll see you back here some day.

Karen-blue

I sent Emma's email to Sylvia, so she can contact her.

OH...Emma wrote to me she was very busy .. a while back suggested I contact her later... it would be perhaps another few weeks now... perhaps it's conjecture with her seeming absence... here's hoping everything is fine.. ........ Gordon

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Hello all, and Emma I really like this one (Hige 'Pale Pink Bi-Color') really a pretty one, hope all is well with you, I have to be on here looking at these beauties as we are covered with a blanket of snow today and I needed to see some color and daydream ;)

Laurrie

Snow is in the forecast here, but I've got a couple of Milky Way blooms today that don't seem to care much. It probably helps that they live inside on the windowsill, rather than on the cold side of the glass.

Both of these are on the "all-white" vine - two Milky Way plants live in this pot, and are hopelessly twined together. Sometimes I get all-white blooms, sometimes I get them with pink spots, and sometimes I get a little bit of both.

I don't want to monopolize the postings, but I also wanted to post a photo of the "red" pot that's just getting started - a Cardinal Climber and a Candy Pink are both just out of their sprouting cups, and laying down roots in their new windowsill home. (I should probably add a little more soil around the top, there)

The Cardinal Climber is focusing on making lots of leaves, while the Candy Pink is concentrating more on size and individual leaf area than on numbers.

Last one, and then I'm done - promise.

This is a couple of Giant White Moonflowers (I usually germinate in pairs, mainly because I don't trust my technique yet, and plan on having more die-off than I usually get). They've recently reached what seems like a "tipping point", and have started to really make progress up their spiral. Both plants have started making secondary growing tips as well, so it probably won't be long before this pot turns into a mass of leaves and vines.

Hi Seamus,

Your trellis looks interesting, you could go into business marketing that design. Did it take long to make them?

Joseph

Not long at all.

It's just a 1/2" cedar garden stake with holes drilled for a friction-fit on some 1/4" dowels with small holes in the ends, and some cotton twine wound around in a double-spiral (or, in the case of the "red" pot, I got a little crazy and tried a weird pattern of sticks and strings, but I doubt that the plants will really care what they look like in the end). Changing the length of the sticks alters the diameter of the spiral, so I started them narrow at the base, and took them out to the diameter of the pots in the center, before tapering at the top again. I added a few ceramic-coated deck screws that stick out of the sides of the stake at the very bottom, to anchor them into the soil.

One six-foot stake and a handful of dowels I had sitting around from previous projects yielded three trellises in less than an hour and a half (done before the end of a movie I was watching at the time), and that included designing as I went. Now that I've done a few, the cutting, drilling, and threading would probably only take a few minutes each.

I had previously messed around with making wire spirals, but that was pretty labor-intensive, with mediocre results.
I think I've decided that I like these wood-and-string spirals a lot better.

I wonder if you can get dowels with pre-drilled holes? Thanks for the detailed information, I will give it a try.

I don't know about the pre-drilled dowels, but it isn't too difficult to put the little holes near the end. Notches in the ends might work, too.

Also: On further examination, I guess my cedar stake is 3/4" on a side, rather than 1/2". I wasn't picky - I just grabbed what they had in the bin and hadn't been snapped in half.

If I'd thought about it a little more, I probably would have wound one spiral in the opposite direction from the other one, and seen which one "climbed" the best with the vines. I'm not sure that it matters much, though - my morning glories may twist counter-clockwise as they grow, but they always seem to just prefer "up" in general, and have to be taught how to use a spiral trellis.

Lovely all white Milky Way blooms Seamus

Laurrie, we've missed your posts and great pics.

Jackie

Seamus, ingenius, I love your design! Thanks for sharing your ideas.

Thanks Jackie, I have missed these forums and all the beautiful pictures, we really have a great group on here haven't we!

I am digging out all my seeds, and that's the time of year I usually get so ready to plant, but weather outdoors doesn't allow me to do that, so I am getting a greenhouse, always wanted one, this is the year, hopefully I can grow those JMG year round LOL as well as many other things.....

Seamus. Love your photos and your trellises are real nice. I may copy something like that!!! Keep the pictures coming it helps the winter go by faster and keeps our forum alive!!!

Laurrie nice to see you posting again. We need all the addicts here in one spot!!!

Here is Velvet purple looking more lavender today. Lots of buds on it even inside. I am looking forward to this one for the summer.

Nice to see this when there is snow outside my window today!!! MGs are so worth growing inside during the winter!!!

Nice varigation on a yuuzuki (name?) leaf.

Luvs, all are just lovely! Wish I could grow them inside. No room and no light. I just have north facing windows and not enough room for a light setup. I'm envious!

Ronnie - Love your wonderful photos and blooms! I was also getting a kick out of your contests! Too funny! Great way to make a long winter more fun! :-)

I'm in the same boat as you, Judith. But luckily our winter has been very mild this year, so I have quite a few volunteer MGs sprouting! Hope to get some blooms soon! :-)

Thanks Judith!! You don't need much room though for a lite set up or even a window for that matter. I have an HPS light and a stand from home depot in the corner of my seed room.

Thanks Becky!! I do have more seeds to give away just trying to think up some fun questions...

This little guy bloomed this morning. Its cute but not at all what I was expecting!

Fully opend

I can't think of who gave them to me but they came from this pack.
Thanks!!
Caren

Hi, Caren...I sent you those. They came out of a mix from Japan so you never know what you'll get. More striping on flowers usually occurrs after they bloom a couple times, if you got a seed with the striping gene.

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I was hoping to find the person who sent them. Thank you Beth! I did figure it was going to have stripes but Im just as happy with the bloom as it is. It has 4 more buds so I guess I wont have to wait long to find out.
Thanks!!
Caren

I have never heard a good explaination of why striping increases with subsequent blooms, but look at these next three blooms all on the same plant.

This was the plants first bloom.

This one came next.

the rest looked like this.

I can't say at this point whether your particular plant got the striping gene or combinations of genes. When seeds come out of a mix they are usually open pollinated. Good luck, at least if this one doesn't stripe maybe one of the other seeds will.

Hi Beth, This is why I wanted people to ID tag and follow the vine on the experiments to distiguish between true solids and blizzards. Thanks for sharing this. Karen