In this post, I am referring to the snail vine that has violet flowers, is not fragrant, and does not have several elaborate twisting corkscrews on the flower. I know there is debate about the scientific name of this plant. I did some of my own research and it seems like the scientific name is Sigmoidotropis speciosa, however I am not a botanist so I am not completely sure.

In any case, it's a nice plant, and I am trying to get a lot of seed pods. Has anyone gotten a lot of seedpods on their plant, and if so, did this happen naturally or through human intervention?

I have a nice big plant with many flowers. I tried pollinating a lot of flowers with flowers from the same plant and from flowers from other plants, and I only got two pods so far.

It seems like the stigma is somewhere concealed around all of the hairs which come out of the skirt first when the flower is pulled back, and the stamens are farther down in the flower skirt and don't come out when the flower is pulled back.

It's quite perplexing. I think the answer might be rubbing a ton of stamens near the stigma area, as there doesn't seem to be much pollen per stamen. I don't think ants pollinate the flowers, because I have plenty of ants, even I think Argentine ants.

Sorry for the long, rambling message.

I would appreciate any helpful answers to my question, (which was if anyone achieved a lot of pollination). Thanks.