You should be able to root Moonflower cuttings. Make sure that you remove any buds from the cuttings and strip the lower foliage. I have had iffy results rooting Corkscrew vines but it can be done. I find it's easier to grow them in pots and just bring them in over the winter. I cut my mandevillas way back and only leave woody and semi-woody growth and remove all the soft green vines. I do keep it watered, warm and under lights while inside. I don't let them grow too much while inside and keep trimming off new growth because they are scale, mealy bug, aphid, spider mite, etc....magnets! Mine never fail to get some sort of infestation over the winter.

I agree with karyn on the mandevillas and the Corkscrew vine as she said is iffy. We have learned on the last one to cut it back and the new growth in the greenhouse is what we use for cuttings root better than the ones that were outside all summer. You didn't get seeds on your moonflower? Isn't this a D. wrightii? They are iffy too to do from cuttings and we only recommend tips.

This is the first time I will be overwintering the corkscrew vines, but the mandevillas here are tender/hardy. I found last year ( quite by accident) that they form tubers underground that look like small sweet potatoes. You may try taking the mandevilla tubers up and drying them like you would other rhizomes.
Hope this helps.

I thought he was talking about the Moonflower vine, Ipomoea alba, not a datura. I wouldn't bother trying to root any datura, just start it from seed.
Karyn

Thanks. BTW I am talking about the Ipomoea alba, not a dat.
Shawn

If they don't root start seed the same time you start your Bruggies.. They germinate so so easy.. I usually start them in a baggie with a damp paper towel in it on the dryer.
Kylie

See how confusing it is when some folks call D. wrightii a moonflower and here he was talking about Ipomoea alba, morning glory? It's just confusing sometimes?

Corkscrew vines I found totally accidentally, root much easier if allowed to callous on semi hardwood. I kept mine growing minimally last winter down in the 'winter house' with the Brugs but it was really spindly. After Karyn saying she cuts her back to almost ground level in the spring, I did the same. What I cut off lay on the ground in the shad for a week until a friend asked if she could try rooting it and the darn thing took off with amazing roots and speed.

My definitions for clarity. Am I missing any?
Angel trumpet = Brugmansia
Devil trumpet = Datura
Moon flower = Ipomoea

Linda

My moonflower never smelt like peanutbutter. My large single white datura leaves did tho. The moonflower smells sweet and just wonderful. I hope you get blooms before frost. Its a nice one to grow - super blooms!

Hi-
My huge white flowering moonflower vine (Ipomoea) is blooming for the first time tonight this summer! I wanted to get photos, but remembered my hubby took the camera to C.A.(darn!) Anyway, it is the most heavenly scented honey- sweet-like perfume I've ever smelled! It was so incredible, I wanted to shout to the neighbors to come & sniff it! My Daturas also smell like peanut butter- that's so weird! Concerning Mandevilla, my neighbor says she overwintered hers in her cold cellar for years, but she got sick of dragging it in & out every winter & spring. Mandevilla's another thing I'm trying this year. Does anyone know what a "purple people eater" is? Some type of Datura? is it hardy in zone 7? How well do double purple daturas grow? Might get them on a trade soon...Thanks for sharing all the info...
Kasha77

Watch out ruth_ann, those corkscrew vines can choke the death out of a Snowbank in a heart beat!
Thanks napdognewfie and neonposey, my moonvine was sweet too and no peanutbutter smell.
kasha77, D. var metel fastuosa not purple people eater please! Easy to grow!