12/10/2018 - End Of Season
- Ruvan Asagao
- Oct 12, 2018
- 2 min read
Updated: Jan 22, 2019
The season is running to an end. The vines are slowly dying and drying up. High time to start collecting some seed pods as we still have two days of nice weather before temperatures start dropping significantly. We still had a couple flowers here and there but most are significantly reduced or don't open fully.
Being way too enthusiastic during sowing season we planted about 3x the amount of seeds we had initially planned. In our small garden this resulted in most plants being grown quite close together and eventually getting hopelessly entangled with each other, especially those which weren't grown in pots. This has made seed collection quite a mess and lots of seed pods are impossible to identify. Which means we'll have another large batch of mixed seeds this year. Ideal for giving away to new growers.
Ipomoea nil seed production was disappointing as usual although we saw some significant improvement in the early flowering specimens we had. The perfect motivation to keep experimenting with artificial flower induction.
Sadly, we may have to significantly lower the amount of varieties we grow next year and focus more on the garden layout to keep this scenario from repeating.
On another note, these stunning flowers showed up on a plant which was supposed to be Dark Purple Black which it clearly isn't. It doesn't really resemble any other varieties I can think of so I'm not sure how to name this one as of yet.
Continuing with unidentified flowers. This single pink and white flower showed up from the seed-tray leftovers in the greenhouse which I never got round to planting.
I might actually continue some of my experiments over the winter. I plan on keeping a couple of plants under a 12/12 lighting schedule from the start and seeing how long it takes for them to start flowering. Space is extremely limited though so I might only be able to do one or two. Using dwarf varieties might not be a bad idea though.
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