Vines and Climbers: Thunbergia mysorensis- Clock Vine information, 1 by seedpicker_TX

seedpicker_TX wrote:
CGardener-
I have experience with the different thunbergias, and your mysorensis should do well for you in the ground, but it will take it a few years to realize when your freezes come, and adjust accordingly.

Their normal bloom time is Fall, through winter(same with grandiflora, coccinea, etc) . So, since you have a winter that probably gets freezes, the foliage will die back and you won't see blooms for a few years, until it learns to adjust its schedule to your local frost schedule.

After it adjusts, it will bloom for you in Fall a month or two before the freezes.

Pot culture will probably allow for winter growth, but also limit its general growth, thereby also limiting its blooms.

The best senario, would be in the ground, and be patient with it, or if you plant in a pot, use a really large one(25gallon), and give it a really large frost free area to really spread out and grow on.

They seem to really like to grow big, before they bloom(usually)

This is a picture of grandiflora that was allowed to grow all winter frost free. This is a porch(Texas 8a), and it gets wrapped in greenhouse plastic. This is the middle section.

The poles on either ends have other things like coccinea, and petrea, etc.