Milk Fed Morning Glories

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Rareseedman Birmingham, United Kingdom Jun 06, 2009

Hi

I am a bit of a mad scientist my kitchen has always been a laboratory ever since me and my kids made a volacno with sodium bicarbonate and vinegar.

I have never had luck with moonflowers in England because they have never grown more than 6 inches high but this year I am going to grow some in my porch we are meant to have a really hot summer last year and the year befire was the worst summer in the history of England.

See here about milk fed pumpkins it is not so mad http://www.ehow.com/how_2081764_grow-milk-fed-pumpkin.html I thought mayve if i could feed them on milk it might make them bloom i tried miracle grow in my ipomoea purpurea but all I got was leaves at teh expense of flowers.

I once used blue food colour on my white calystegia but that did nothing but it says above how you can feed pumpkins with a wick.

Correct me if i am wrong but it might be of use to people in hot places like California we once fed our house plants with wicks of yarn when we went on hoiday, milk might go sour but maybe with water,

My question is does anyone think you could feed morning glories on milk and get big blooms?

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Jun 09, 2009

I'd wager the soil would start to smell a bit funky with continued use of milk fertilizer. You'd have your fan club of Calliphorid flies buzzing about though!

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beckygardener (Becky) in Sebastian, FL(Zone 10a) Jun 09, 2009

This doesn't sound like a good idea in a warm/hot zone. What about yogurt? LOL!

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Rareseedman Birmingham, United Kingdom Jun 11, 2009

I don't think it is a good idea anymore either. Tomato food with seaweed extract should do, low nitrogen. I might apply a foliar feed

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