How to Grow and Key Techniques for Climbing Morning Glories

The morning glory is a trumpet-shaped flower that people like to plant on balconies or in courtyards, letting it bloom in colorful flowers that look very beautiful. So, how do you grow climbing morning glories?

Growing methods for climbing morning glories

1. Preparation: prepare suitable soil and good-quality seeds. Climbing morning glories like to grow in loose, airy, fertile, well-drained sandy loam rich in humus. You can mix 4 parts leaf mold, 5 parts garden soil and 1 part river sand, and apply a small amount of bone meal to the bottom of the pot as a base fertilizer.

2. Sowing seeds: generally sow at the end of April and the beginning of May (in the south it can be earlier). Nick the seed coat of the climbing morning glory seeds, or soak the seeds for 24 hours, or soak and sprout them before sowing. Dibbling is generally used, sowing 3 to 5 seeds each time; broadcasting can also be used, covering with about 2 cm of soil after sowing. Seeds sown directly without treatment sprout in about 7 to 8 days. After sprouting, harden the seedlings, and once the seedlings have just developed true leaves they can be potted up.

3. Management: one week after potting up, apply a thin liquid fertilizer, then apply a thin cake fertilizer water or compound fertilizer once every 2 to 3 weeks, and spray 1 to 2 times with a 0.2% potassium dihydrogen phosphate aqueous solution during the bud stage. Water frequently, especially in summer when watering must be sufficient, but the pot must not become waterlogged. After three or four true leaves have grown, vines begin to grow from the center, and a trellis should be set up to let the morning glory vines climb.