A Gardeners Forum Forums General Discussion The Banter Hall Gardener's Chat Wonder Egg seeds continued #2....

Mark - I'm so glad yours are growing well for you - it's exciting, isn't it?

PHOOEY on those spider mites though! Hope you managed to get them all!!!
I noticed aphids all over one of my favorite petunia hanging baskets yesterday, and a few hovering near my wonderegg pot - it's too cold and windy here to blast them with a hose today, so it will have to wait til this weekend - hope they don't do too much damage in the interim.

Thanks Penny, Diane and Christy!
Christy, hope you see your eggs real soon.

Diane, , Glad you finally saw your egg. We have been waiting too darn long huh? But finally, for both of us!

Juniegirl,
Keep us posted.

Lynn,

I think I'm goin to go ahead and plant mine directly in the ground. I'll take pics today (no really I will this time) to show you how far round two has made it so far.

OMG Yes Stephanie it seems like forever!!! All the way from Dec '06!

how long dose it take for the flowers to bloom????????
i had these buds on mine for days, its drivin me crazy!

Diane: I sure will post pictures as soon as I can get my camera loaded to this computer, and photobucket figured out--the good news is I have been taking a few pics as I went along. so if nothing else when my daughter gets home form her trip at the end of the month I will get this all worked out.
The bad news is my camera is not the best--
and right now I think I need to transplant from the 4 inch pots to bigger
pots.
I hope I started them right---I used peat pellets and put them in a plastic bag to serve as a greenhouse---all 6 came up, and only one did not make the transplant--so I have 5 pots right now--yea----

Sounds great, Carol - can't wait to see your pictures!

Here is my most advanced bud today - boy do they ever take their sweet time to bloom!

Lynn, looking great! It shouldn't be too much longer until you see an egg! Keep us posted.

Christy do you have your inside or outside!?

outside in the huge basket,
they bloomed today!!!!!!!!! whoo hoo!

Ya hoooo Christy!

(Christy do you have your plants inside or outside!?)

So does it matter if I keep my Wonder Egg plants indoors?? do I have to set them out for a certain period of time?? and if so at what time do I do this?/

i think thats up to you,they can be house plants or outside plants.

i put mine outside, but cause mine got a later start i put them in a basket [container] my zone is colder so if it gets too cold or frost before the eggs can ripin i can just put em in the house or green house.

My flower finally opened today - I'm so glad the one stem survived from last year, so I'll have at least 1 egg, if the new plants don't have enough time to develop!

when I I asked about the inside or outside thing what I really wanted to know was do these plants need polinated? If so then ouside it is---

These sound very cool... but alot of work.

Lynn, Great shot!

Just want to update on mine:

Those $%^&$#@#^ spider mites came back... and just today I hosed them down lightly twice... and checked every leaf afterwards...
Hope it's not too late... I already lost a bunch more leaves, and the stem holding the eggs was starting to brown on 2 or 3 of them...
They seem fine now... I'll post pics later [my uncle went upstate earlier today for the weekend, took my camera, and his truck broke down up there.. so he's stuck there until he can get his truck fixed Don't worry he's fine, and with other family ]

yep, but you could also do it by hand, or rather a q-tip, craft paintbrush, im using a small make-up brush just incase, cause i havent seen as many bumble bees as i usaly do this year.

mark hope your uncle gets home ok, that would suck being broke down so far away from home,
i herd neem oil is good for keepin away bugs, i cant seem to find any around here though,

great pic lynne!

up!

One of my eggs, although still fairly small, is starting to yellow!

I hope it has fertile seeds in it, and I get them before it's too late for the plant ... I'm still losing leaves, and I saw more of those @^$#^$* spider mites today! :mad:

All my new buds keep falling off as well... but the 7 eggs I have still seem to be hanging in there, and now with that one that's yellowing...

I'll get pics soon..

I keep forgetting about this topic. I had transplanted mine to the garden and they don't look so well but are surviving. I keep forgetting to water anything outside which I'm sure doesn't help. Usually when I forget to water outside it will eventually rain. It hasn't rained in a couple weeks and I've only remembered to water a few times. I need a watering reminder thingy of some sort.

update on the egg!!! Wow Mark yours is turning Yellow?? GOOD!!!! I have had a terrible time with spider mites too....

awsome pic diane, so glad everyones getting eggs!
im still getting flowers,but happy about that! after all it took me what? 3 trys :}


cheryl, i water on the weekends, its easy to remember, cause i just think back if it rained that week or not. make a day like sunday to be waterday. [or whatever day you have free] least that works for me:}

Everyone really seems to enjoy growing these.. but I don't have much of a green thumb.. so I think I would have to pass.. I think it would cause me more frustration than anything.

Great egg Diane!

No eggs here yet, but more flowers!


Plants are starting to look a bit ratty from the japanese beetles and white fly!

WOW Lynne that's a lotta flowers!!!! I'm impressed!! I was thrilled with just the one that turned to egg!! LOL

awsome pic lynne! thats what mine look like [except i got some holes in my leaves] but their still bushy, lots of flowers, and one egg fourmin! whoo hoo i got a egg growin!!!!

youll get em next time penny

pic of my first ever egg

see its about the size on my finger tips

Cool Christy!

I have two yellow eggs now... if only i could find my camera... I 'misplaced it' after I did that movie..

maybe your brother hide it so he dosnt have to get beat by a stick jk
hope ya find it soon,

LMAO! :Lol:

I wouldn't be suprised..

find your camara yet??

i found another egg on my plant!

wonder how comfreys are doing?

Found my camera!
My Wonder eggs aren't doing too well... They keep losing leaves, and those #@$%^**# spider mites keep coming back... Here's what pics I took:

all together:


The two yellow ones[compared to a Penny]




The other two big ones[compared to a penny again]




and the grouping:

Mark, If you find you need them, Please remember, I have some seeds---

Thanks, carol :kissie... I have a few more seeds left... but I'm hoping that those two yellow ones ripen enough that I can harvest seeds before the plants dies..

I hope so too, Mark, but I j ust wanted to let you know

and actually it is a shame you live so far away--i have 6 pots of the Wonder Egg plants--and all are alive & healthy---

I tried to take pics of them after I transplanted them for the 2nd time, BUT apparently I need to delete pics from my camera first---AND that means a trip to somewhere to get them printed.--(my camera software is still NOT loaded on my computer)---well, on day soon, still not driving too much---

wow mark thats awsome! your eggs are a dark yellow! i think youll get to harvest the eggs!
my info says eggs turn white to golden yellow [yours look golden to me]
let them over ripe to harvest, whoo hoo mark your more than half way there!!
im not shure what overripe means?
are you feeding it every week?

oops wrong page!
cant wait to see your pics carol!

I hope so, Christy!

I'm not fertilizing them or anything, but watering every other day... every week I've been taking them outside and hosing them off, too..

i checked on my eggs and noticed 5 more eggs! holy eggs! were did they come from? ya'd think i woulda noticed em

of corse penny!