I checked a local school that had it growing around their abandoned tennis courts twenty years ago... the courts are still there (even more abandoned than ever) and the Ipomoea is still there too but apparently so shaded now by the trees that they didn't flower this year. lots of plants but no seeds. Dennis in Cincinnati On Sun, Sep 27, 2026, 5:27 PM Dennis Kramb <dkramb@gmail.com> wrote: > about twenty years ago i was collecting lots of seeds of this for PBS BX > but what i didn't know was almost all of the seeds are host to a beetle > larva egg. unless stored in freezing temps they hatch and eat the seed > from within and emerge as an adult.... very unpleasant surprise to find a > bag full of dead beetles and no viable seeds after a few weeks! > > eventually i realized freezing them would stop the larvae from hatching. > and then scarifying the seeds out of the freezer would get them to > germinate before the larvae could harm them. but honestly I'd be nervous > to ship overseas. I'm not even sure where to collect them, the wild stands > i knew of are gone. but I'll have a look around. > > Dennis in Cincinnati > > On Sun, Sep 27, 2026, 1:06 PM Johannes-Ulrich Urban via pbs < > pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> wrote: > >> Hello out there in the US, >> >> Is there anybody who could collect some seeds of Ipomoea pandurata for me? >> >> It might be considered a weed in the country of origin but at this end of >> the world it is very sought after but very difficult to come by. Please >> contact me privately if you can get seeds. >> >> Thank you >> >> >> >> Uli >> >> _______________________________________________ >> pbs mailing list >> pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net >> https://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… >> Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> >> PBS Forum latest: >> https://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbsforum/index.php/… >> > _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net https://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/… Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> PBS Forum https://…