Transplanting Morning Glories - Forget the Myth (!) it's Easy
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Comments (15)In my experience the best variety to grow in our climate that is fast, vigorous and actually will bloom early is IPOMOEA purpurea 'Grandpa 'Ott's'. To get them to grow and flourish in our climate is to start them early in the house, according to my records this year I started them May 10th and the germinated May 14th, donÂt transplant them out too early, they hate the cold or any bit of frost, after June is ideal. I like to grow them in a large pot with a trellis of some sort behind them, fertilize the heck out of them at the beginning of the season, and then stop fertilizing to achieve the blooms. They do best in hot full sun. I tried taking a photo of Grandpa this afternoon but itÂs so darn windy that I canÂt get a good photo just yet. If I wait till this evening, the flowers will close up! Same thing with Sweetpeas, but they can be transplanted out earlier ;) Sharon...See MoreMorning glories in planters for pergola (thoughts?)
Comments (11)Hi, I plant morning glories almost every year, and in my experience, once they germinate they are relatively low maintenance. The thing with them is that the seeds have hard coats, so just nicking each seed and soaking them overnight in water before you plant them helps give them a good head start. I don't know how well they respond to being transplanted. I just sow them directly in the ground. Perhaps someone else on this forum might know. Yes, they will twine around anything (including each other), so you'd probably want to give them a nudge for them to go where you want them to go. One of my favorite varieties is the Star of Yelta, which has purplish-magenta flowers. The standard blue (Heavenly Blue?) ones have bigger flowers and leaves though, and I believe the moonflower does too although I've never grown them myself. If you save seeds you'll get a whole bunch of them in Fall, so you won't have to buy seeds again next year. I'm on my 5th generation of Star of Yelta and they still look as good as the 1st. Back when I lived in southeast PA I had a neighbor whose morning glories just reseeded themselves every year (but of course the winters are much milder down there)....See Morewill morning glories transplant
Comments (13)Melissia, I've never started morning glories inside quite so early, but have started them and kept them indoors for maybe 2 to 3 weeks after they germinated before transplanting them into the ground. You could translant them to something larger...like maybe one or two plants per cup in paper or plastic cups with holes punched in the bottom for drainage. Having more soil and space available for root growth might encourage them to put more energy into growing roots and, thus, less energy into top growth. Putting them in a location where they stay very cool, but still above freezing, will slow down their growth. If they are indoors in warm temps, they will be monster plants by the time it is warm enough to transplant them. If you could keep them in a cool, sheltered location....like on a porch or patio, bringing them inside only when freezing temperatures are likely, they might stay smaller and more manageable. Personally, if it was me, and I had some seeds left, I wouldn't worry and fret over these too much. If they get unmanageable or if you don't want to deal with them for the next 4-6 weeks until it is warm enough to transplant them, you can dump them onto your compost pile and sow seeds again about a month from now. Morning glories can handle quite a lot of cool (but not freezing) temperatures. When the volunteers sprout in our beds in March every year, they tend to stay slow to the ground and quite small. As soon as the temperatures are warm enough, though, they take off and grow like mad. And, yes, sometimes they sprout too early and freeze. I haven't had any morning glories sprout yet, but have had some sunflowers sprout near the chicken coop already. Dave, Well, our climate is so very different from yours that I don't know if we can predict what your morning glories will do. I would think, though, that yours should reseed to at least some extent, unless your soil stays excessively wet all winter long. If the soil stays REALLY wet, the combination of wet soil and cold temps might rot the seeds over the course of the long winter. Self-seeding does not necessarily imply a plant is invasive. In general, I don't really consider morning glories to be invasive if you manage them well. Some years they do reseed quite thickly, but it is quite simple to pull up or hoe out the seedlings you don't want. Also, after they bloom and leave visible seed pods behind, you can simply cut off the seedpods before they have time to mature, dry, slit open and drop seeds to the ground. Having a thick layer of mulch on the soil can help cut down on how many self-seed, although some do tend to sprout in the mulch (but they are easy to pull out). Morning glories climb by twining and they will climb a dead tree quite easily. Mine climb on metal fence posts and wire fencing also, and they climb the wooden fence posts and porch railings too. They do die back to the ground when freezing weather hits and do not come back from roots or rhizomes. Dawn...See MoreMorning Glory Help
Comments (25)Hi, I am looking for some suggestions as to what is eating my Morning Glories leaves... 2 weeks ago, I noticed lots of holes in my morning glories leaves. I looked under the leaf and found a shiny metallic beetle, which I later found out was a Golden tortoise beetle. I pulled it off and let it fly away. I though I had solved the problem until today I noticed more holes in the leaves. I looked at the leaves and there are tiny white fly like insects all over them. Does anyone know what these are and how to get rid of them? The morning glories are also planted in pots with nasturtiums - I don't know if this would have anything to do with these insects or not... Any ideas would be appreciated... Thanks!...See Moreemmagrace2
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