At what age, or size, or temperature conditions, do morning glories
start to flower?

I have four or five varieties, in various places around the yard, in
various soils. Some are in the ground, some are in pots. Some of them
started from seed, some came as starters from the greenhouse.

One of them is seven feet high.

The weather here has been mostly in the 70s and 80, but once got up to 91.

When can I expect them to flower?

Or do you think I'm doing something wrong?

Thank you,

Ted Shoemaker

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At what age, or size, or temperature conditions, do morning glories
start to flower?

I have four or five varieties, in various places around the yard, in
various soils. Some are in the ground, some are in pots. Some of them
started from seed, some came as starters from the greenhouse.

One of them is seven feet high.

The weather here has been mostly in the 70s and 80, but once got up to 91.

When can I expect them to flower?

Or do you think I'm doing something wrong?

Thank you,

Ted Shoemaker


Always thought the questions would be When do they NOT flower. If by
chance you fertilized you may of used some on the high end of nitrogen
which will promote growth but not flowering.
--
Lar

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Ted Shoemaker wrote:
At what age, or size, or temperature conditions, do morning glories
start to flower?

I have four or five varieties, in various places around the yard, in
various soils. Some are in the ground, some are in pots. Some of them
started from seed, some came as starters from the greenhouse.

One of them is seven feet high.

The weather here has been mostly in the 70s and 80, but once got up to 91.

When can I expect them to flower?

Or do you think I'm doing something wrong?

Thank you,

Ted Shoemaker

I planted some morning glories last May in an area next to a deck with a
lattice railing where they could not get very much light until they'd
grown about 2 feet and got out of the shadow of the deck. Only five of
them survived infancy and those grew extremely slowly so I pretty much
had given up on them though I did up up some strings.

Then, suddenly, wham! They exploded into growth in mid July. By mid
August our entire deck was coated in flowering vines with several
different colored blooms. There was literally not an inch of the lattice
not covered with flowers. It was glorious and lasted until hard frost in
October.

This year a lot more of my seedlings have survived despite a hard freeze
a week after I planted them. I'm not sure we'll have enough room for
all of them on the deck railing. I also put them all around the gas
cannister and on a trellis on the side of the house where nothing much
wants to grow.

FWIW, a whole bunch of what I planted this year did not germinate until
last week. I though there weren't going to be even the 5 I had last year
but now there are another seven or eight growing. I put some in peat
posts 2 weeks ago and grew them on the deck and they already have two
real leaves compared to the one in the seedlings I planted in situ.

Last year (our first year with morning glories) the 15 plants worked on
their vines primarily until about mid-August. Then a few flowers and by
September it was pretty well covered.

The vines got about 10 ft high (limit of support) and when the frost
came I had about 300 lb of vines to cart off to the compost. Make sure
they have a strong supporting structure.



Ted Shoemaker wrote:
At what age, or size, or temperature conditions, do morning glories
start to flower?

I have four or five varieties, in various places around the yard, in
various soils. Some are in the ground, some are in pots. Some of them
started from seed, some came as starters from the greenhouse.

One of them is seven feet high.

The weather here has been mostly in the 70s and 80, but once got up to 91.

When can I expect them to flower?

Or do you think I'm doing something wrong?

Thank you,

Ted Shoemaker

"Bourne Identity" wrote in message
...
They are photosensitive, which means they bloom when the light is correct.
In
this case, you will see flowers when days start to shorten. My perennial
morning glory is blooming now and will bloom till frost, but the annual
Ipomoea
will not bloom till sometime in August to frost.

Victoria

What's a perennial morning glory? Is that something that can live only in
warmer climates?

Giselle (I *love* morning glories but they just don't seem happy here in
central Indiana)

Rev "Fragile Warrior" wrote:
"Bourne Identity" wrote in message
...
They are photosensitive, which means they bloom when the light is correct.
In
this case, you will see flowers when days start to shorten. My perennial
morning glory is blooming now and will bloom till frost, but the annual
Ipomoea
will not bloom till sometime in August to frost.

Victoria

What's a perennial morning glory? Is that something that can live only in
warmer climates?

Giselle (I *love* morning glories but they just don't seem happy here in
central Indiana)
Good question. AFAIK all morning glories are perennial in warm
climates. Are the ones called "perennial" cold hardy or something?
My morning glories have been growing since January and show no sign of
stopping.I have heard they can become enormous here in the tropics.

Bourne Identity wrote:
On 15 Jun 2005 19:07:24 -0700, "nina" opined:


Good question. AFAIK all morning glories are perennial in warm
climates. Are the ones called "perennial" cold hardy or something?
My morning glories have been growing since January and show no sign of
stopping.I have heard they can become enormous here in the tropics.

For the most part you are right. However, most morning glories in warm climates
reseed, and are not perennial. The term perennial means that some part of the
plant remains alive during the cold season...even in the tropics. In this
instance, this plant does not reseed, it comes back from the roots.

Ipomoea acuminata 'Blue Dawn'

Thanks! I have regular annual reseeding MG's growing right now. AFAICS
they wil grow and grow and grow. I wonder when they will die,we dont
have a cold season here.
We also have what appear to be wild perennial creeping MGs too.

I live in the High Mojave Desert and my MG's are not even over a foot tall
yet and they've been blooming for 3 weeks now.

"Ted Shoemaker" wrote in message
...
At what age, or size, or temperature conditions, do morning glories start
to flower?

I have four or five varieties, in various places around the yard, in
various soils. Some are in the ground, some are in pots. Some of them
started from seed, some came as starters from the greenhouse.

One of them is seven feet high.

The weather here has been mostly in the 70s and 80, but once got up to 91.

When can I expect them to flower?

Or do you think I'm doing something wrong?

Thank you,

Ted Shoemaker

nina wrote:
Bourne Identity wrote:
On 15 Jun 2005 19:07:24 -0700, "nina" opined:


Good question. AFAIK all morning glories are perennial in warm
climates. Are the ones called "perennial" cold hardy or something?
My morning glories have been growing since January and show no
sign of stopping.I have heard they can become enormous here in
the tropics.

For the most part you are right. However, most morning glories in
warm climates reseed, and are not perennial. The term perennial
means that some part of the plant remains alive during the cold
season...even in the tropics. In this instance, this plant does
not reseed, it comes back from the roots.

Ipomoea acuminata 'Blue Dawn'

Thanks! I have regular annual reseeding MG's growing right now.
AFAICS they wil grow and grow and grow. I wonder when they will
die,we dont have a cold season here.
We also have what appear to be wild perennial creeping MGs too.

Wild creeping MGs might be Field Bindweed.
http://www.ipm.ucdavis.edu/PMG/WEEDS..._bindweed.html

--

Travis in Shoreline (just North of Seattle) Washington
USDA Zone 8
Sunset Zone 5

I live in mid-south Mississippi... My morning glories did not start out
well, due to too much shade. They took off after they grew up a few
inches into the better light, and only started blooming after the first
heat wave. I don't know if it is coincidence or if the heat had
something to do with it, but those are the circumstances surrounding
their blooming....

Tony

Travis wrote:
nina wrote:
Bourne Identity wrote:
On 15 Jun 2005 19:07:24 -0700, "nina" opined:


Good question. AFAIK all morning glories are perennial in warm
climates. Are the ones called "perennial" cold hardy or something?
My morning glories have been growing since January and show no
sign of stopping.I have heard they can become enormous here in
the tropics.

For the most part you are right. However, most morning glories in
warm climates reseed, and are not perennial. The term perennial
means that some part of the plant remains alive during the cold
season...even in the tropics. In this instance, this plant does
not reseed, it comes back from the roots.

Ipomoea acuminata 'Blue Dawn'

Thanks! I have regular annual reseeding MG's growing right now.
AFAICS they wil grow and grow and grow. I wonder when they will
die,we dont have a cold season here.
We also have what appear to be wild perennial creeping MGs too.

Wild creeping MGs might be Field Bindweed.
http://www.ipm.ucdavis.edu/PMG/WEEDS..._bindweed.html


I am not sure. We had those in Colorado. But I amnot sure if those are
also here in Puerto Rico, they seem to be similar to bindweed but
_not_.

"Ted Shoemaker" wrote in message
...
At what age, or size, or temperature conditions, do morning glories
start to flower?

I have four or five varieties, in various places around the yard, in
various soils. Some are in the ground, some are in pots. Some of them
started from seed, some came as starters from the greenhouse.

One of them is seven feet high.

The weather here has been mostly in the 70s and 80, but once got up to 91.

When can I expect them to flower?

Or do you think I'm doing something wrong?

Thank you,

Ted Shoemaker


This is a question we get every year on the Hort Line. Morning Glories will
ALWAYS bloom unless you planted them really late. But, they are late
bloomers, and usually don't start to flower til mid to late August. The
good news is that by September you should have a spectacular show every
morning. Just one other caveat -- don't fertilize a lot, as every resource
says they prefer poor soil.

Good luck!

Suzy O, Zone 5 in Wisconsin

"Travis" wrote in message
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nina wrote:
Bourne Identity wrote:
On 15 Jun 2005 19:07:24 -0700, "nina" opined:


Good question. AFAIK all morning glories are perennial in warm
climates. Are the ones called "perennial" cold hardy or something?
My morning glories have been growing since January and show no
sign of stopping.I have heard they can become enormous here in
the tropics.

For the most part you are right. However, most morning glories in
warm climates reseed, and are not perennial. The term perennial
means that some part of the plant remains alive during the cold
season...even in the tropics. In this instance, this plant does
not reseed, it comes back from the roots.

Ipomoea acuminata 'Blue Dawn'

Thanks! I have regular annual reseeding MG's growing right now.
AFAICS they wil grow and grow and grow. I wonder when they will
die,we dont have a cold season here.
We also have what appear to be wild perennial creeping MGs too.

Wild creeping MGs might be Field Bindweed.
http://www.ipm.ucdavis.edu/PMG/WEEDS..._bindweed.html

--

Travis in Shoreline (just North of Seattle) Washington
USDA Zone 8
Sunset Zone 5

Yep, bindweed is just what I'd be worried about. It has small flowers and
is nearly as hard to purge as quackgrass. Not sure, tho, how/what it does
in a warmer clime.

Suzy O, Zone 5 in Wisconsin