Daniella, I CAN STILL SMELL IT!!!!!!!!!

Just went to Kristy and she had me smell it....WOW I got to have this. Now I know what I want to grow along my neighbors fence lol

It is gorgeous. Thank you for the super pictures.

Lucy

That is beautiful. Another plant for my list.

The flowers are so cool. Mine had 2 spikes of buds...I went out to look today..and they all fell off. I don't know if the ants did something to them or what. I was so excited to see what they smelled like, but I don't think I have any more buds :(

ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Shawn :-(( I hope you get to smell them on new flowers growing for you. Hopefully!!

Lucy

Wow! What a beauty.
I have to smell one.

Dan..... that is so pretty! :)
Susan

Yall are killing me with all this talk about how good this thing smells. Can somebody please tell me what it smells like? Does the smell carry through the air?

Thanks
Brandon

Brandon it smells SO SWEET...you just want to stick your nose real close in it. I almost fell in the whole thing because I could not get enough of it lol. First connection I made was to my honeysuckle bush in front of the door.

It smells so strong also. But not offensive at all!

Someone might be able to put a specific fragrance to it lol

Lucy

thanks everyone :)

Shawn, I am so sorry..maybe theres more buds hiding somewhere! Quick give it some BB!! maybe you'll get a nice bunch before...I dont even wanna say it..
I kept mine growing in a window all winter last year, very slow growing, and didnt bloom, but it lived, and never showed signs of stress after the intitial bring in, lost its leaves then grew them all back and climbed up the blinds. I had to keep trimming it back to about 2'. Did yours go dormant or did you keep it going? I am thinking, that if you dose it up with BB, you will have blooms, and you can just bring it in in front of a southern or western window when the dreaded time comes, and enjoy those blooms.

I found mine blooming by the scent. I was looking to collect seeds from other plants nearby, and I kept looking around going..where is that new smell coming from? Nothing new thats fragrant is ready to open today? Maybe it's a new brug with a dif smell than any of my others? No brugs open. I went and stuck my nose in the newly opened dats thinking one had a mutant new aroma, nope, not it..One moonflower open, but this didnt smell like moonflower, and the moon really didnt have a scent yet, so nope, not it. I happened to walk behind the VC, and there they were, 2 blooms peeking at me. This is a scent like nothing I have ever smelled before, I cant describe it in any other way except, delicious, heavenly! I couldnt get up close to the blooms cuz they are a good 1.5' higher than me, and that dang big ol hosta is in the way, and I couldnt find my step ladder or I prob would have almost fallen in like you almost did Lucy, lol. I was on my tippy toes, straining my neck, where is my step ladder????
I can smell it about 5'away with just a few blooms open. I cant even imagine how strong it will be when there are alot open.
I highly doubt I will get seeds, my season isnt long enough, but if I do, I will be more than happy to share. I was reading up on cuttings before, seems hit or miss with the VC. When I cut it down to bring it in, I will try.

Next year, this baby is coming closer to the house.

Sweet smelling purple cashews. Sold!

lmao Brandon. Just for that you get a couple cuttings if I am successful.

I got so excited yesterday evening when I saw this post that I went to see if my VC (also from Edna) was blooming, NOT. Well actually it was hard for me to get to the vine because it is a tangled mess that fell back down and there are other plants in front of it so I couldn't get to it. Most likely it is not blooming because there is no scent in the area. I will certainly look forward to seeing my bloom.

Wow girl ! You did it ! I love that vine. Keep in mind that having ants on it is a good thing. They pollinate it.
Also if you dig the tubers up and store them over the winter you get a big jump on next year. That way you can get seed pods. Yummmmmmmy smell. :)

Kristy I am helping you dig it up this fall. I need seeds rofl

It IS a gorgeous, great smelling vine

Lucy

El, I hope yours blooms soon for you. Your lucky you live in a good zone for it! This time of year I get very anxious about things needing to bloom before its too late. I have so many brugs with buds..I NEED to see them bloom before frost!

Well, I found the step ladder! Twice, lol. 2nd time was just now when I looked at the second pic of the whole plant ..its there in the background, lol. It's pink, lol. ANyway I found it today and was able to get my nose in some blooms. Close up it reminds me of hyacinth, but it smells different even just 1' away. weird. But an 'Oh so good' weird, lol.

Ya wanna know whats funny? I thought of you, Lucy, cuz while I was climbing the step ladder, I thought it was stable..I got to the top and stood on it with both feet..then the front left corner sunk into the ground..I almost fell into the VC! Thank god the tree was there for me to save myself. LMAO.

Thank you again Edna! :) I remember you said the ants are the main pollinator, thats why I didnt want it by the front door. BUT now that I know how it smells! OMG the ants would be worth it! Not that I'll put it right next to the door, but it def deserves to be closer to the house! I am gonna build an arbor especially for the VC next spring.
It is in a pot, so like last year, I will bring the whole pot inside and keep it going over the winter by a window. I'll try to keep some of the lower blooms, and hope for seed pods! OMG..that means I'd have to bring the trellis in too..hmmmm..gonna have to think that one over. I need a bigger house..I need a GH! LOL!
I had it going all last winter so, I thought it would bloom sooner than this. It did bloom sooner than last year. I think it bloomed mid Oct last year? So glad they smell this time!!
:)

Thanks for posting this thread. You just introduced me to another plant that I have to have.

-David

Does anyone with this plant happen to have seeds to trade?

Daniella I am so glad nothing happened to you!!!

Lucy

Congrats, D!!!! I should have blooms any day now, hopefully! Seems like they take forever to develop!

Theresa

Sweet! Thanks Daniella. I hope they root. Thank god you didn't fall the other way! I have some stuff for you too. I'm gonna try and send it tomorrow. I hope it makes it there alright.

Thanks
Brandon

oooo Brandon!! Thank you! :) How sweet! ((hugs)) I will let you know when it gets here! It should get here pretty fast since we're pretty close. Lol, you can tell by my words, I have been talking to the bird alot..'pretty' this 'pretty that, lol.
I hope they root too!

lol Theresa, I know, its almost as torturous as waiting on new brug buds.
I wish they would all open at once, so I could get drunk on the secnt, lol..but at the same time I am glad they aren't, this way I can enjoy them longer.
Where do you have yours? By the deck?

Here's two new pix from yesterday

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Lucy, thanks.

David. If all works out well, and I get cuttings to root, I will post a thread on it. But it prob wont be till spring. I can't ship cuttings, rooted or not in the winter.

So...if you guys who want, dont get seeds, hopefully I'll have a buttload of rooted cuttings to share.
Cross your fingers!

Crap! I blew it Daniella. I woke up late cause I woke up at 4 am to a couple people dressed in white tyvek coveralls, with hoods pulled over there heads! They were right under my bedroom window crawling on there bellies acting very strange. Then a car pulled up and talked to them and left and they came back to my yard. I thought I was gonna have to cap em til I realized they were wasted. I ran them off and called the law then went back to bed. Just woke up a lil while ago. I was gonna try and get it shipped out still but, I started seperating mimosa seeds from pods and I noticed some little grey beetles in the grocery bag.Then I seen some emerging from seeds. I proly busted open 30 seeds from different pods out of the quarter grocery bag that me and Danielle picked and every seed had a larva in it. Glad I caught that before I sent you 500 little grey beetles in a box :) I think UPS might be open later I'll check with them. If not I'll have to wait til monday. First I gotta see if I cant find some mimosa seedlings already growing. I'm sorry. I'll keep you posted

OMG I am lmao..yeah, I dont think I'd be happy with about 500 beetles in a box, thank you, lmao. No worries. O and hey, when you do ship, the USPS is much cheaper than UPS. Plus the PO even tho not open on Sundays to customers, it is still working and moving stuff, with UPS I am pretty sure it just sits there.
btw, that was me n my son..the only disguises we could find were our Hazmat Radiation suits..your lucky we got away b4 the fuzz saw us..I wanted to kidnap your white brug for ransom.

I love them and yours looks so pretty. I've had one plant for 5 or so years now. I cut it back and winter it over dormant in a cool (not cold) area. I've never gotten ripe seeds. I'll get pods but have to chop the plant back well before they've ripened. I like the Snail vine (PC) blooms too but not nearly as much as the Corkscrew (VC). Snail vine blooms are solid purple with no scent. I don't know why but they get mixed up all the time, even by nurseries.

I hope you get lots of ripe seeds and good luck with your cuttings. BTW what seeds were you talking about that get little beetles? I'm asking because that happens all the time with my dinner plate hibiscus seeds. I'll dump out an envelope of hibiscus seeds and see a perfect little circle chewed in the seed coat and occasionally find a teeny tiny grayish beetle, yuck!

Allow the cuttings to dry to the air for 24 hours before putting them in water. Last year I cut mine way back in the spring as it had wimpy growth from no light over the winter. I left the cuttings lay on the lawn and a week later a gardening friend came and rescued them, rooted them in water and her plant was better than mine by the end of the summer.
Like Karyn, I try to make mine dormant in the cool ( 50F) winter house.

Daniella,

Aww shucks... That would be great if you could propagate these guys from cuttings. I would love to trade or sase with you when they are ready next spring(by the looks of your other plants it seems you have no problem getting them to grow).

-David

Thanks David..I'll let everyone knows how it goes and if they root. So, if all goes well, keep your eyes peeled in the spring for a post about them.

RuthAnn, thanks for the tip!

Thanks Karyn. lol, Brandon wanted to send me some Mimosa seeds I guess they all had those little beetles in them.

Daniella my seeds aren't ripe yet on the mimosa tree but I'll try and save you some. I'll try rooting the vigna too. Several of my friends want one after smelling it. Its really yummy. Mine comes back from the ground here bigger and better every year. I have the snail vine too but the blooms are sporadic on it and don't smell.