Morning Glories: Growout Results of Ukigumo x Youjiro, 1 by gardener2005

gardener2005 wrote:
Ok,Here is the thread. I`m pressed for time so I`ll make it short and sweet. I got curious last year about what happens if you cross two JMGs. I found two flowers about to open. I opened up the pod parent (Ukigumo) removed the pollen and tied it back closed. The I simply tie the bloom on a youjiro to keep the pollen inside clean and unadulterated by insects.

The next morning I removed pollen from youjiro and rubbed the pollen on the pistil of the Ukigumo. That is about as graphic as it gets when you are creating seed pods with these morning glories. Well, the pod "took". 30 or so days later I found 1 seed inside the dried pod and planted it.

This is the pod parent flower: