Thats neat Karyn! I haven't gotten a seed pod yet. I tried pollenating my last flower that opened but I think I did it too late. By the time I got the pollen it had already been open a whole day. I had about 6 buds about to open when I asked for some and they all opened in one day except the last one. How long before you know if it took? The flower fell off and I don't see any kind of swelling. I have new buds forming so hopefully I'll get to try again soon.

If a flower has been pollinated the calyx will remain green and you'll notice that it will start to swell. Even when I hand pollinate I don't succeed very often. I can count on one hand the number of times I've had an insect pollinate a brug. I think the only natural pollinators I have around here are sphinx moths.
Karyn

Well thats good to know since I have several of those that live around here and are very unhappy to have my one blooming brug moved into the garage. I used to find them in the flowers nearly every night so now that I have more than one plant to bloom hopefully I will get them pollenated a lot. I don't guess the one took that I tried.

I had never had a pod then tried pollinating them. I figured it did not take. I took one limb off for cuttings and forgot about it. The flowers fell off. I forgot about it. Now I have pods. Mark the flower you pollinated. Check it in a few weeks. things do not grow fast this time of the year. You may be surprised.

Congrats Karyn and Jim for your seed pods. I hope they come to maturity.

wondering why it is so exciting to get a seed pod. Is this a rare occurrence? I'd of thought that these plants would be loaded with seed pods. In general, what is the likelihood of getting a pod, pollinated naturally? Aren't brugs self pollinators?? What is the ration of pods per hand pollinated flowers?

I haven't any experience with pods.. BUT I have seen pic's of some different shaped ones.. What an exciting find...gotta wonder what it was pollenated with..LOL some little Moth was out doing his job.
Kylie

Kylie: I was hoping I would have gotten a pod, but Karyn had said she rarely got one so I didn't hold out much hope.

I may try to hand pollinate myself this year and see if I get lucky and get one.

I had bees galore! Just didn't understand why I didn't have a pod.

But hey - there's always NEXT year. (grin)

I only had one blooming size brug this year so I know thats why I didn't get a pod naturally but had the moths going all the way inside one flower and moving to the next. Those little critters are brave too. They would dive bomb me while I was trying to take pics at night, lol. My yellow datura had a round bumpy seed pod with no spines. I thought that was neat since all the others I saw before then were spiny.

That's cool F4F - I stuck my nose in a bloom - and the bloom was buzzing.

Said WHOA - and focused - there were bees everywhere - including inside the bloom I stuck my nose in. (grin)

All 10 of my little tiny 6" "january" brugs had blooms this year. None of the others I ordered later (March? May?) ever grew to a point of being able to bloom. And they were larger.

That's why I'm really scared about yankin' foliage and stunting the growth.

Will the root systems on these little guys be big enough to take off in the time I have in a 5b to bloom this year? I'd hope so. Like my Jan brugs did last year.

Once they're BIG - I can do what Ruth Ann does. (grin)

Anyway - I thought I'd have a pod for sure. No such luck.

There's always this coming year!

http://www.abads.net/seed/

I hope so. I removed most of the larger leaves but left some smaller ones and they look better. I also blasted them while I was washing the car while hubby was napping. He would die if he knew I did that in the garage, lol. It was so warm and windy most of it dried by the time he went outside. He said why it wet over here. I said I dropped the sprayer while I was washing the car and it shot in there. I'm gonna go to H**** for lying I'm sure. I seem to do it a lot where plants are concerned especially where they came from. He doesn't know I buy from ebay. He thinks I only trade and my generous friends give them to me.

Here's the pod and yes there's a very nasty critter on the stem which is the reason that it was stripped of foliage. The pod looks good so far. Because of the shape I have no guess as to when it will be mature. With the torpedo shaped ones I can usually make a rough guess based on size. I did remove the dried calxy to make sure there were no more beasties hiding out.
Karyn

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It's too late at night for me to try to answer this properly, but brugs aren't self-pollinating, and will only cross polinate with certain other varieties. Ex: Candida will cross with Versicolor, but not with another Candida (which is totally off the top of my head, wrong I'm sure.) But what I'm trying to say is they won't produce pods unless they're cross pollinated. I can't find my book handy right now, and I'm sure by the time I do, someone will have an answer that makes more sense! But most need another variety to cross with (not a cultivar). I'll try to find my book tomorrow, or else check out abads, i'm sure they have the info.

I've read that the B. arborea is self pollinating which surprised me because I thought all brugs needed cross pollination.
Karyn