I keep the dying outer leaves pulled off and leave the rest alone. I think helps give plant strength, but I'm no expert here....LOL Nancy

They sometimes to possible break at these kinds of heights more so if they have bends..... if so it's one by one watch for slight off line bending signs to prevent....If seen they break fast along the lines of 2 -3 days several hours if they have bends Gravity likes them too Best of luck to you

Hi Ron, Well I'll be you no what. Yup the seeds did come from the person on e-bay that claims to have the "summer skies" lost for all time bit and my friend fell for it. The bloom in the 2 pics is the same bloom and just the lighting difference and a lousy camera that doesn't always give a good color. Sometimes the color is accurate in one part of the pic and not the other. The lighter sky blue flower is an accurate color on the early morning bloom, but the leaves are not an accurate color. For whatever reason, must be the angle of the sun at the time, both the flower color and the leaves are an accurate color. Vine is growing far from what was described on the e-bay sale. Just a puny single vine, not any branching and has only had 3 flowers on it. all the same AM color and PM color as the pics showed in the pics I took. It is a pretty flower though and pretty color blue, both morning and afternoon. UNLIKE, my pink silk, which has now just had it's 3d bloom and is pink, pink, pink, not that beautiful blue. I will save you some seeds of it if I get any pods and seeds. I do remember your instructions for bringing in the vines with the pods to ripen in water and it does work. Here are the pics of the so called "summer skies" MG that went with the ebay sale. I have the ebay seller's name saved as wel. Fran

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