Moonflower Watch
Oct. 7th, 2007 08:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pameladeanThis post is a result of a discussion in someone else's journal. I have a moonflower vine (thanks to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
biblio_tech), and because of the unseasonably warm weather, it may actually flower. It has six buds that, if they were morning-glory buds, would have opened already. I am informed, by various sources, that they open at dusk, that they open so quickly that one can watch it happen, and that they stay open all night and sometimes into the next day; also that if pollinated with a phoenix feather, they will ripen and in seventeen months shoot little moons out into the solar system.
I figure I'll deal with that in seventeen months.
In the meantime, does anybody know what the buds look like when they are actually ready to open, as opposed to dinking around and snickering behind their leaves every time I come to check their progress?
Pamela
biblio_tech), and because of the unseasonably warm weather, it may actually flower. It has six buds that, if they were morning-glory buds, would have opened already. I am informed, by various sources, that they open at dusk, that they open so quickly that one can watch it happen, and that they stay open all night and sometimes into the next day; also that if pollinated with a phoenix feather, they will ripen and in seventeen months shoot little moons out into the solar system.I figure I'll deal with that in seventeen months.
In the meantime, does anybody know what the buds look like when they are actually ready to open, as opposed to dinking around and snickering behind their leaves every time I come to check their progress?
Pamela
