A Gardeners Forum Forums Gardening Reference Gardening in 2006 Morning Glories

Found the site by looking for info on morning glories. Mine have a lot of foliage... green everywhere on my front porch railing and still growing, but no blooms. I think they got too much rain.

If I cut the end of each vine will it force the blooms???? I had no problem last year.... flowers kept coming and coming. I did plant new seeds this year.

What kind of soil are they in?????

I don't know??? I am not much of a gardener. I put nothing there/ added nothing to the soil. I had them in the same place last year.

Like was it bagged soil from previous years?
Or straight ole garden dirt/soil??

Second question would be have you used any
fertilizers on them?
If yes, what were the numbers on it?
(ie: 10-40-10)

Trying to figure out if there is some source of
too much nitrogen somehow???

skeeder,

my MGs are in pure compost from a local facility, and they too are full of foliage and little flowers.

i was told that the better quality soil, the more leaves and less flowers you will get.

I have never put anything in that area. It's just plain old dirt and none of the plants in that area were fertilized. It is very strange.

Anytime I plant (due to lack of knowledge and time both) I just try to plant something that will come back and /or that covers a lot of area. Then I just pray they do well. I love the outdoors and just seeing things grow awes me.

Skeeder

"I will tell of all your marvelous works." Psalm 9:1

Sounds to me like they got too much rain. A friend told me not to water MG's a lot and they will bloom more, here's are full of blooms.

Yes, I thought so too (too much rain) I am just trying to figure out how to solve the problem now so I can get some flowers.

I saw 2 this morning, but that was all. I figured it couldn't hurt if I cut the ends off the vines since they just keep growing, so we will see if that does anything.

p.s. Monica... I live for the moments that take my breath away.

Usually, just don't water them and they should flower more, as for the rain, don't know what to tell you there. I cut the ends off of my moon vine, which is related to Morning glories and it makes them bushier!

I do my best to live for those type of moments as well.

You might be able to find a liquid fertilizer,
such as a Shultz Plus 10~60~10..
*or one that has a high middle number*
and mix it up and give the vine a "foliar feed"
*just spraying it's leaves, early in the morning,
not in the hot sun either*
and that may just do the trick with a little
extra umphffffff, to get to blooming....

i dont now ithik it could be the heat cause mine hasnt bloomed either and i pinch it back and i fertiliaze mine.