I grow one every year in Alabama and it lasts until the first hard frost. I feed my plant once every 10 days with liquid blue feed. They bloom so heavily it takes a lot out of the plant. Good luck.

I am still plundering along trying to get my juice jugs ready. It keeps snowing, the days pass by, and still nothing outside. Today, I declared I would prepare the jugs and get the bags of soil inside before they freeze again. Thing is, I can't get drainage holes cut in those heavy juice jugs. They are rectangular and I have saved them all year (we drink lots of grapefruit juice). It was hard to cut them but my kitchen shears did the trick. I am going to use pipe cleaners through holes punched to close them. But alas, I can't get a drainage hole or slit or anything cut. Does anyone have any suggestions? I have what looks like a garden store's inventory in seeds just waiting to get outside. I should have stuck to milk jugs.

My guess is that it has just fried. If it turned brown at the tips you could cut back. If it is brittle at the base, it has probably died.

I'm going to order seeds of this vine, but was wondering if anyone can tell me which one has the brightest orange flowers and the largest blooms. I found one called 'Orange Whopper' and another called 'Superstar Orange'. Are they the same thing? Thanks