I realize this is an old post. Where are you located that you grow this? Do you still have any available?

Wow. I wonder what in heck pollinated it? I mean, being inside the greenhouse, there's not much chance for "creatures" to get in there, although, during the very first stretch of 80 degree temps we had in March, I was working in there with the doors open, and a bumblebee and what looked like a red wasp did get in and were flying all over the place. The bee kept dive bombing me, like he was saying, "Show me the way OUT you miserable human!" Every once in a great while a stray butterfly will also get in...I suppose that one of these could have pollinated it, the vine was blooming profusely then. This was a raceme of flowers that was hanging down very low, brushing the ground. I fact, I only found the pod when I was on my hands and knees scooping leaf debris out from under the vine, this spent raceme with the pod came out. It was laying on the ground. Maybe the spent flowers just kind of fell onto each other and it happened? Its a mystery! It will be cool to see it progress and see how many seeds it has, and to try to germinate them. When I saw it, I was definitely confused. I have seen the actual seeds of "sea beans", which I understand are in the Mucuna group, and had thought that if my plant ever had seeds they would look like those right off the bat, it never occurred to me that they would be inside a seed pod, DOH! Just Homer me now.

I grew one in a greenhouse for several years. It was in a 5 gallon pot but eventually rooted into the ground. After 3-4 years it put out several racemes of flowers and they were amazing! Probably my favorite vine grown for flowers, the color is like those blue-green neoprene gloves you see in hardware stores! The vine always seemed to suffer through the summer, the greenhouse regularly reached over 100 degrees and the vine, of course, was close to the ceiling of the greenhouse. Eventually it died and although I was given some cuttings from a Botanic Garden, they were difficult to root without mist and they all dropped their leaves and died as well. So finally broke down and order one on line. It came in a tiny 4" pot but was healthy with good roots. It was transplanted to a one gallon and it put on a burst of growth in December and then pretty much stopped. As soon as the weather is warm enough, it will go into a 3 gallon and be put outside in semi-shade. The greenhouse is too hot and sadly our outside climate is too cold. Plant to make some kind of structure that will fit in a pot, allow the vine to climb and allow the flowers to hang freely, then keep the plant sheared to about 6-7 feet to keep it manageable. Can't wait to see it flower again!

Took new pix yesterday, then lost the camera. Turns out husband put it in the glove box. Here's the front gate. The fence is 6 feet high. Lawn needs mowing. And here's the vine outcompeting uluhe fern, bamboo orchids (aka damnboo orchids), and various grasses. The first blue jade vine I saw was growing in a tree, and I thought somebody had hung weird plastic plants from the tree--they look just like cheap aquarium plants. Once I figured out it was real, I wanted one! Now I have 2, plus the red. I've seen seeds for a "yellow jade vine", not sure which (if either) plant it's related to. They were quite expensive, so I thought I'd wait until everybody was growing them and get a plant cheap. : )