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Thanks Comfry!!

Weezie: I live on the 5th floor of an apt, no patio or balcony to put containers on outside. I will be planting in flower pots inside.
I have figured out, from all the help I am receiving on here, that they require cold.
So...there is a little garden/patio on the ground floor outside our library; I will ask the building manager if I can set them out there, to over winter. I'm sure they will let me.

So now my questions are these:

1. By winter will I cut them all the way back, leaving roots in pot? (or do they form a 'bulb')

2. Will I set the pot out and just let it rain, snow, freeze etc. on it all winter?

3. Will it then sprout in the spring? Then can I
bring it back inside?

They will die back naturally for summer and winter. They will bloom in the spring and fall. They will do best when they are 3 to 4 years old. They live about 7 years total.

When the leaves are brown you may take them off of the plant at the end of there flowering period.

No they do not form bulbs.

Yes just set out the pot and let nature take it's course.

Yes it will sprout in the spring. I have no idea if you can bring it inside. I'm thinking you should be able to since they like partial shade.

Thank you so much TK!! Now I think i have everything set to go!!!

I'm going to have fun, fun, fun!

Your very very welcome.

I have taken all the advise I gleaned from all of you and a week ago I plant 20 seeds in 10 of the peat pots in my tabletop greenhouse.Yesterday there were 20 beautiful, healthy little sprouts!!!!
I had planted Convolvulus; the Blue Enchantment.
Today they are even bigger!!!! I feel like a proud new 'mama'!!!! Thank you all...you should feel like Aunts and Uncles!!!

That is very exciting Shirley!!! Glad they all sprouted for you!

That's awesome!!!
Just make sure the light is close to the
seedlings... cause I think you might still have a weeeeeee~bit~o'time, before they get into the ground..
*remember, morning glories LOVE warm soil*

and if this is the begining of March, you'll have 'til the end of the month, and all of April, and some of May, which is about 7~9 weeks of inside time...

So, keep the light close, and hopefully they won't get spindly!!!

I hope you get some good pictures of them, I love those plants, they are soooooooo much fun to grow and have them climb things..

Weezie, I have no yard and these will be mostly given away to others, but the ones I keep will go into a container or two. The package said:

{Truly a bush-flowering morning glory, growing only 14" high. Their compact habit makes neat baskets.}

I thought of baskets on either side of window, or putting a trellis up sides and over window. How does that sound. They have to stay indoors, as I have no outdoors.

I hope they do well for you inside Shirley! Will be so pretty around a window!

To be totally honest, I have never grown MG's inside...
So, I can not give you a 100% yes or no on it..

My first thoughts would be, those plants *an annual* love sun, and thrive on it* so, I would think they would grow, but would be spindly...

But who is to say, that under the right conditions you couldn't do it..
As long as you had a sunny window, fresh air, good circulation, good nutrition... why not!!!
It might work..

Here's an idea of mine, *sorry, didn't get a finished picture as they didn't turn out great, cause I didn't have pots'/containers' big enough for them to grow enough...*
(and these are regular MG's)








They have some real one's to buy *2 of them* for sale, but for the life of me, I can't remember where I saw it??

Shirley,
Do you happen to have a picture of that window
and what it would look like from the inside????

Oh WOW Weezie, that will look so cool if you can get the MG's to cover it all!!!

I'm searching now to find where I saw those
two for sale..

*Mine are an old kid's umbrella that got shredded, so I striped the fabric and kept
the skeleton*

Okay found it..
S/2 Umbrella Trellis - 53166

I certainly wouldn't have room inside for that!!

To see the Window that I would want to hang them on either side of or let them vine around, look in my PB in the album My plants and Willies. It is the big window in living-room with all the plants sitting on a table in front of it.

I could use a narrow piece of trellis flat against the wall up each side and across the top.

Oh Wow!! I thought that unbrella trellis would be taller and bigger than that!! Maybe I could talk our manager and maint. dept. into letting me put that in the corner of our patio garden outside our Library downstairs?!! I'll check that out!!

This one??
Shirely\'s window
I just saw something cute in that catalog
I was looking for for those other umbrella's..

Wooden Arbor - 52278
It's about 28" tall...

Yeah, those umbrella's are about as
tall as a yard stick..

*the other one (arbor) is just under
a yard stick*

The site you gave to the wooden trellis takes me to a resized picture of my window?!! I went back to the catalog and typed in that number but it shows 'no results'. I ordered the catalog.

Yes, that is the window.
Sounds like I would use one on each end and two across the top. I would have plants in container on a tiny table at each end of window. Those drapes would have to go. I would put heavily gathered lace or shear curtains on a tension rod set inside the window area.

The window opening measures 83" across = 2yd+1ft
so four of those would be perfect.

In the bedroom, which is where I have the seedlings, the window is 46" = 1yd+10" and I could use three of them in there.
Can't wait to get the catalog!

I fixed it, ooops, I guess that's what I get for
multi~tasking...

Oh well, that wouln't work either. I need flat lengths of trellis, to do what I described.
But that also would be good Idea for the patio garden off our library!! Maybe they would even like that better than the umbrella.

Oh I like the umbrella ideal...I may have to buy a couple of these!

I had hyacinth beans growing and blooming in the house before it was time to set them outdoors last year, so as long as the MG will get enough sun they may do fine indoors.

Thanks!!!

WOW! This morning I checked my little greenhouse and guess what I found??!!! All of my Impateins seed cups are full of tiny green sprouts, and all of my Basil cups are full of tiny green sprouts!!!! I love this!!!! I've never done it before, and everyone here has helped me so much.. ..This is fun!!!

Oh, and the other thing...these have all come up, healthy and STRONG, and yet I have not been able to get a grow-light yet!!?? I have my little greenhouse on a shelf a foot or two in from my east facing window; gets morning light but no direct sun; and it's cool there near the cold window.
Maybe I planted 'magic' seeds, like Jack n the Bean Stalk?