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Moving any one grow MG inside??
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Posted by hija_de_lamadre IN5 (hija_de_lamadre@yahoo.com) on Wed, Mar 3, 04 at 14:02
| Or on a balcony? I have a small arbor I was thinking of putting on inside of Doorframe with pots at bottom for a morning glory walkthru. Any ideas? Doubts? I will be moving from house to apt woth balcony and nowhere to grow and I have worked hard to get some of my MGs. Rare ones even. I will have a full sliding door to light them. Does any one think this work? Thanks |
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| I've started MG's inside for spring before but I don't know if they'll twine around a trellis-the wood might be too thick. I've only trained them on very thin plastic, I'm not sure how they would do. I bought some iron stakes from the nursery last fall that are decorative, they're shaped like a corkscrew and are 6 feet tall. I'm going to be staking them through a pot and into the ground and growing my MG's up them. I suppose if you had large heavy pots, you could do the same indoors. The rate at which they grow (and die off from the bottom up) though, you might have a fight on your hands inside. Whatever you decide, good luck with it! |
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- Posted by kdc43 z:Studio apt (My Page) on
Thu, Apr 1, 04 at 23:28
| This winter I grew 4 Ipomoea Purpura Morning Glories in an 8 inch pot under compact fluorescent lights inside with no natural light. I pruned heavily until the first flowers appeared then I trained the vines around a one and a half foot tall stake.Still got lots of blooms out of them. Right now they are dead and brown full of drying round seed pods. I will plant the new MG seeds and let the cycle start again. |
RE: Moving any one grow MG inside??
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| I have grown morning glories inside! They were my inspiration for getting through college. I grew them in my dorm room window. My mother did the same when she was going through school. They are pretty in hanging baskets. Carlie |
RE: Moving any one grow MG inside??
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| They grow great (if a little less vigorously) inside but have the same requirements as outside (don't like to be repotted, blossom best when neglected a little, etc.). They should do fine if the doorway you mention is around that full sliding door that's going to light them. In a more interior area they'd need some artificial lighting. My indoor/winter ones grow around a hoop under normal fluorescents and tend to twine back and forth around it several times. They're pretty messy indoors, so it helps to keep them contained on one manageable structure (not the easiest thing to do with morning glories). They seem to have eyes for anything within a few feet that might serve as a support for twining (other plants, especially), and I don't know whether they'd choke the other plants so I keep steering them back to the hoop. With tendrils free to grope along surrounding walls, etc., they'll be gorgeous, although they won't cooperate with any attempt to keep them out of the way of the door! Hope that helped... |
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