From: derick@gse.utah.edu (Derick Siddoway)
Subject: Re: Why is my Morning Glory not flowering?
Date: Tue, 6 Jul 93 14:42:03 GMT

fmbutt@engage.sps.mot.com (Farooq M. Butt) writes:
> OK, OK so kill me, I actually *planted* bindweed :-) Well Ipomea (?)
> actually... But here's the problem: no nice, blue trumpet flowers at
> all. The vines are both HUGE (7 ft. tall and 5 ft. wide) and are
> extremely healthy but have no flowers at all.  Could this have been
> my over-fertilization. Yes, I know I am going to get flayed but I
> actually (in my earlier innocence) fertlized the darn things.  What
> do I do ?

According to the package I used to plant the stuff, it grows and grows
nice leaves as long as there is an adequate water supply, but when
things start to dry out they produce the flowers.  One of those odd
reproductive quirks, I guess.  Some things only reproduce when life's
easy, some only when life looks real tough.  Odd.