Dear Bob, I'd love to try some seeds. I will watch for the SX and order accordingly. I recently threatened to start a tiny sweet potato and enter it in our twice yearly show at the San Diego Cactus and Succulent Society's event. After all it's an Ipomoea. It might distract the judges if I follow through. Cheers, Candace On Sun, Feb 13, 2022 at 4:05 PM ana rosa Llovet Difilippi via pbs < pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> wrote: > Hola, desde Uruguay (Paysandú) me gustaría q enviaras fotos de tus Ipomeas. > Gsss. Sds > > El dom., 13 de febrero de 2022 3:37 p. m., Robert Lauf via pbs < > pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> escribió: > > > Although I don't normally think of morning glory as a bulb plant (more > > like a sweet potato vine) the genus Ipomoea is in our wiki so I guess > it's > > considered within our portfolio. When the next SX opens, I plan to > donate > > seeds of I purga, aka I. jalapa, aka High John the Conqueror. Blues > > aficionados and Obeah practitioners will, of course, recognize that a > piece > > of John the Conqueror root is an essential component in any well-made > mojo > > bag. For everyone else, it's just a pretty lavender morning glory with > an > > interesting backstory. > > Here in Z7 I grow it as an annual so the root never gets much bigger than > > a pencil, but along the gulf I guess it is a perennial and the root will > > look like a horseradish. I have never had any luck digging the plant in > > fall and wintering it in the greenhouse, and I haven't tried starting one > > and never planting it out because the last thing I need in my greenhouse > is > > a vine. > > I have not found it to be invasive here; I harvest a large bagful of > seeds > > but obviously I don't get them all, and have rarely seen even a single > > seedling volunteering in the spring. Any that come up in the lawn are > gone > > after the first mowing. But folks in really warm climates might want to > > check first before letting it run free. > > The seeds are large with a thick coat. Chip the coat with a nail clipper > > and soak overnight in water. All the seed coats will crackle and the > seeds > > will expand. Just plant in promix and put outside when it's warm enough > > and the seedlings are 6-8" high, and plant by a fence. This one tends to > > bloom in the evening rather than in the morning. > > At the risk of disappointing the aging hippies in our group, I. purga is > > one morning glory that DOES NOT contain lysergic acid in its seeds as far > > as I know. But I don't recommend eating these or any other seeds for > that > > matter. > > Anyway, I wanted to provide this info now and get ahead of the crush of > SX > > orders, so folks can look into it and decide if this is something of > > interest. > > Bob > > _______________________________________________ > > pbs mailing list > > pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net > > http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… > > Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> > > > -------------- next part -------------- > A non-text attachment was scrubbed... > Name: IMG_20211230_150938_233.jpg > Type: image/jpeg > Size: 1534057 bytes > Desc: not available > URL: < > http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/pipermail/pbs/… > > > -------------- next part -------------- > A non-text attachment was scrubbed... > Name: IMG_20220102_105314_413.jpg > Type: image/jpeg > Size: 1219006 bytes > Desc: not available > URL: < > http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/pipermail/pbs/… > > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net > http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… > Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> > _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net>
