DSC00310Originally uploaded by myBrownThumbWell, this lady don’t look too scarlet if you ask me, more purple…but I was pretty thrilled anyway to see my first morning glory greet me in the morning! Within a month from seed to flower! The numerous plants have all flowered consistently through out at feb and march, and the new ones have turned to seed pods…though I think it will be longer to wait for the pods to ripen… Definitely the easiest and fastest flowering plants to grow! =D
DSC00273Originally uploaded by myBrownThumbLook at all those healthy leaves!! I didn’t fully believe that morning glory shouldn’t be fertilized so the other pot which I grew along with green beans ( which give off nitrogen at the roots) actually really grew laaarge heart shaped leaves and very few flowers… I am now a believer… these days all I feed my glories is water…=) good thing I left this pot alone and fertlized it very lightly…but I think the pots is too small so I got quite a few tiny flowers which look cute heh heh…
DSC00269Originally uploaded by myBrownThumbI started off with the RoyalFleur morning glory, it is easy to grow and the germination rate is almost 100%, I didn’t plant it all but so far all those I have planted all came up =) They do have differing growth rates, but even the vine which did not grow very tall had flowers…
DSC00309Originally uploaded by myBrownThumb^u^ After the seaweed application the lemon balm is just springing up!The leaves give off a strong lemony scent when lightly rubbed between the fingers… Lemon balm is supposed to keep away mosquitoes so maybe I will try it out when the plants get bigger … =D
After almost four weeks those tiny little sprouts became somewhat more like tiny plants! ^u^ I have now started weekly doses of seaweed soaked waters to boost their growth…
I bought the seeds at FarEastFlora and planted them end of January… The seeds were so tiny, that I thought they weren’t going to take… So I liberally scatterend the seeds in clumps ( due to my inability to spread them out evenly) and to my delight they sprouted after three days!
