My morning glory sprouts died.
Today, yesterday, and five days ago. The three of them, gone.
Perhaps it's because they couldn't stand the scorching dry season (which suddenly came again again after a few days of rain) eventhough I'd put them under the shades most of the days. BUT, when I put them inside the house, they wouldn't grow! Not even by half centimetre!
Let me retell their short life-story.
I submerged the seeds overnight (24h, precisely) and planted them in a pot the next day. 3 of them was showing the signs of germination, while another 2 didn't. But, these 2 seemed to become softer. One of them even appeared to shed its seed coat.
I put those 2 seeds in a plastic pot and the other 3 in (different) dried coconut shells.
The next day, all of them sprouted except the shedding one. I don't know whether that seed was damaged or the sprout had been eaten by rats or cats (they're everywhere, huft!). A few days gone by and they grew splendidly. I water them once every evening and they grew longer and longer.
Since wild cats and rats roam freely in the neighbourhood, I decided to bring the survived sprouts inside the house every nightfall. At first I put them in a room with a little sunlight. But, when I recognise that there were almost no visible change in their height, I moved them to a room with more sunlight.
The moving didn't change anything.
So I suspected that, maybe, they craved outdoor sunlight and micro-climate. Therefore, I brought them outside again and put them under the shades where they first sprouted. After that, I went out.
When I was home in the evening, I immediately check them and one of them had withered! 🥀
I didn't think of anything at that time. I thought that a cat stepped on it or something. I tried to revive it by watering it and giving it a small stick to stand, but to no avail.
That day, I brought them inside again. They are inside for 1-2 days and then I brought them outside for a half day.
In the end of afternoon, again, one of them was wilting.
This time I was sure that it wasn't because of the cats or rats, but it was really lacking water or moisture. Like always, every nightfall I put them inside again.
I was heartbroken this time. But the most disheartened moment was when YESTERDAY, one of the sprout which previously has been EXTREMELY OKAY with no signs of wilting or sick or anything, WILTED!
I mean, what has gone wrong? You're inside, safe from the scorching heat, not even only by the shades but also by the thick house walls and I water you everyday and yesterday YOU WERE COMPLETELY FINE but why you're like this now?
I tried to revive it by water the pot to the max and place a stick to help it stand, but this morning I found it has been impossible to be saved.
Maybe it was the climate?
I live in a tropical country. The humidity is enough, there were no strong wind these days, but the weather for the last few days, I admit, was scorching. Usually it's hot but these days it feels like there's no 'cool wind' or even 'wind'. Perhaps this is the cause?
Or maybe, it's because of the container? I mean, the non-survivors are the seeds that I planted in the coconut shells. Maybe because of the shell's water capacity or something?
I don't know.
Considering the heat, I decided to plant the other seeds when the rainy season has come. Perhaps then it'd be safer. I was thinking that because of the flower's origin, it can't stand heat. I mean, I rarely see morning glory here. I saw them once, on a fence, but the fence was located in a mountain region. Of course, with cooler climate.
CMIIW, I think that morning glory originally comes from four-season countries. I knew them from a Japanese film.
I fell in love with morning glory after watching Mamoru Hosoda's Summer Wars (サマーウォーズ). I fell in love with how the green vines covered the wooden fence and shades and adorned them with bright blue or purple flowers.
We actually has a plant which has similar flower with morning glory: kangkung (water spinach/Ipomoea aquatica) -- same as morning glory which is an Ipomoea too . It has light-purplish colour. However, this plant isn't an ornamental plant. We grew it for the leaves to be eaten so we rarely grew them until it flowers (and I don't know how to get them to flower. It just kind of happen once in a while). It doesn't have vines too, but rather a herbaceous soft stalk. These stalks will collapse if it gets taller than mere 50 centimetres. It has different form of leaf, too
Let's hope the next sprouts will be able to grow well.
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which then were assembled together
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