Heavenly Blue Morning Glory Blooming Funny?

[GardenGeisha]

Is it characteristic for Heavenly Blue Morning vines to bloom only at the top first, and then work their way down the vine with blooms? I don't recall this in the past, but it is how my Heavenly Blue is acting this year. Big, beautiful blooms, but way up so high on the roof I can hardly see them. No blooms except for the very top 10" or so of vine. What could cause this?

 

[Smart Red]

Can't help you here. Mine seem to bloom as the plant grows -- lower to higher flowers rather than all at the top.

 

[journey11]

I've grown the Heavenly Blue's before, but it seems to me it was at least the upper 1/2 of the vines that had blooms. I have some pics on my computer somewhere, if I can recall what year I grew them last. The variety pack of morning glories I planted this year have been much the same, the upper 1/2 or so, but it amounts to a pretty good swath of blooms. Goodness, those things will climb the rafters if you let them.

 

[GardenGeisha]

Yes, mine climbed the chicken house rafters, Journey 11. They do have quite a few blooms at the top half, like you say-- mostly at the top third, actually. Today I found one bloom near the bottom. I am growing mine in big pots, rather than in the ground, but the hot pink ones growing in the ground have a lot of lower blooms, even blooms on the ground, although most of the blooms start halfway up the vine.

 

[journey11]

So overall would you say they grew well in the pots, @GardenGeisha ? I was just wondering because I heard you could grow them in hanging baskets and let them drape down, but I wondered if they would really get enough nutrients to grow well that way. I still wonder how that would work, since they really want to climb UP! (Can't believe everything that you read online, huh? )

 

[Nyboy]

@journey11 you mean sometimes online info is wrong ?

 

[GardenGeisha]

Yes, Journey11, they have done very well in pots. I would say they did better in pots last year than this year (bloomed lower on the vine) and that the ones nearby growing in the ground did better than the ones in pots, but the ones in pots have pleased me. LOTS of Heavenly Blue blooms on them, albeit at the top of the chicken house. However, a few weeks after I posted this, the Heavenly Blues I planted a bit later than the others in a pot by my Golden Hops Vine took off, and they have climbed the hops vine up to the trellis and are gorgeous. And they bloomed all the way up the vine and are still blooming...