Did you cross pollinate it with anything?

I've never had seed pods on any of my brugs, ever...the blooms just droop and fall off...Maybe that doesn't happen here :(

I get very few pods, even with hand pollination. Do you have several different brugs (not clones of the same plant)? All but one variety that I'm aware of needs cross pollination.

They usually need a cross pollinator. I have the best luck in spring or late summer/fall when the night temps are a little cooler. Early evening, night or early morning seem to work better for me. This is when the natural pollinators would be at work and when they release thier fragrance to attract them, so it makes sense.

I have never had one either. I read somewhere that it was a bat that was a pollinator. I guess we don't have them here.
Clare

I took a tiny paint brush and did the pollinating myself.
I have one nice looking seed pod growing now.I should get a pic and post on here. the seed pod grows more each day.
The brug had blooms a month ago. Only one seed pod grew tho.

In this area the main pollinators are sphinx moths. We have bats but they are all insect eaters.

I tried handpollinating. But i think the few seedpots I had came from my favorite pollinators. The sphinx moths :-)

But the frost took them all away from me. So my goal for this year is to make sure i get at least ONE of my own seedpod so I can harvest seeds and grow them out.

Lucy

I hand pollinated 3 blooms 2 white and 1 yellow on my noids and I believe there are pods inside now. How long before the flower sheath ( I don't know the proper term) comes off? Can I tear it off without hurting the pod? How long does it take for the seeds to ripen for harvest?

princealbert

princealbert congratulations. You must be a very excited expecting daddy :-)

The flower sheath, calyx? will protect your seedpod. My opinion is to leave it alone. HOpe someone chimes in with the perfect advice. It takes a LONG time from what I understand. Like 6 month or so. Sometimes shorter. I guess it also depends if you have seedpods going into the warm season or going into fall and winter?

Everytime I touch a potential seedpod. My luck, I broke it off or it fell off. So as for me, no touching it lol

Good luck and hope you get some nice seeds out of them

Lucy

Thanks Lucy:
I'll leave them alone.

I've had several pods where the calyx remains attached to the stem until it's ripe. The way I can tell if pollination is successful is if the calyx doesn't yellow. It will split as the pod enlarges. I've peeled them back once the pod is full size but you should probably leave it be. Lucy's right, it's takes anywhere from 4-6 months for the pod to ripen. It will soften and sometimes begin to change color. I've also noticed that many times the stem will also change color (begin to yellow) when the pod is ripe.

Oh even I noticed another thing how you can tell if it got pollinated. The part of the stem where the calyx is attached to, starts swelling and get fatter :-)

right?

Lucy