heat warms soil.. and triggers hormones to trigger leaf emergence ...

as the season goes on.. hormones change to flower production ...

after that is done.. hormone change start root growth.. for storage of energy for next years emergence ...

does that answer your question.. lol. probably not ...

enjoy the flowers for what they are.. and either cut them off to start eh next phase.. or let the pods mature ...

i guess what i am struggling to say.. is that it will start the next phase of growth.. and whether that is more leaves.. i dont know.. because that thing is all out of phase.. or whack..

ken

ps: manipulation of those differing hormones .. is basically what TC is all about ...

It can be self pollinated. It doesn't have to be cross pollinated to form seed pods. You can do it yourself if you want, otherwise the bees will do it for you.

Get outa heah!!!
Ok, let me put on my fairy godmother wings and take my magic pollen wand, and go hopping from fower to flower to flower.
This stuff is easier than I thought.

Ken, this plant is so mixed up, I'm sending it to therapy.
Pretty soon, it will become its own grandpa.

Some plants send up a second flush of leaves and some don't. I don't care for most of the flowers so I cut off the scapes when they bloom. It doesn't seem to make any difference as to more or fewer leaves. I like the Blue Mouse Ears scapes because they are short and cute so I leave those, and also some of the fragrant ones.

Silly, you don't need a fairy wand, just give them a wiggle. I do that to my tomato and pepper plants since there are so few bees these days.

-Babka

"just give them a wiggle"

For real? All that you need to do to pollinate a hosta is shake 'em up?

I'm thinking it would also help if you twitched your nose at the same time....like Samantha in BEWITCHED?

Babka, do I recall you use "fairy dust" on your hosta, for other reasons of course, but nevertheless....a little magic always helps.

Dust is too messy...it makes my nose twitch, so I use my wand.

-Babka