African Violets and Gesneriads: Aeschynanthus seed pod, 0 by Keyring

Keyring wrote:
Thought maybe someone might possibly be interested in seeing what a young seed pod looks like. Okay, long shot, but I'm jaw-droppingly surprised that it took. This is my first successful hand-pollination of a gesneriad. Oh, wait, it's not, but this is the first dramatic one. LOL. I think I'm hooked an want more houseplants that form these beans....

So the trick with gesneriad flowers is, as I recently learned, that the flower goes through two stages. In the first, the pollen is prominent. In the second, the stigma is prominent. So, in order to pollinate, you want to take the pollen from a new flower and stick it on the stigma of an older flower.