Morning Glory stranglehold.
I thought it would be sweet to transplant a couple of morning glory seedlings from the backyard to empty containers on the roof. Mostly I was curious to see if they would survive the transplant, and then what the climate up there would do to them. I also had a vision of a morning glory halo around the top of our building, but I didn’t really get my hopes up about that. Days go by, the plants survived in a scrawny fashion, and I was making half-assed efforts with twine to get the vines to grow out to the parapet.
More days go by and I kind of forgot about the morning glories. Yesterday I went up there and one of the morning glories had just exploded out a net of thick, ropy vines onto the chiltepin next door. The chile plant looked so dainty in comparison to this thick skein of competing tendrils. It seriously looked like the morning glory was going to pull down the chile. It took about fifteen minutes to untangle it all. No obvious damage to the chiltepin, though it may have some emotional scars.