Tropicals & Tender Perennials: A thrill in the making!!, 0 by Kell

Kell wrote:
Oh Doris, are you making pods now? What fun. I can see your new GH full of seedlings all winter. I only know for sure when it has grown some. The flower does fall off but the stigma and usually the calyx stays on for awhile. Sometimes the calyx will stay on thru maturity. I always give the flower a tug when it is spent, I hate the look of hanging dead flowers. They slip right out.

After about a week I reach up and feel it thru the calyx to see if it is growing. It may take 2 weeks to know for sure. HOW EXCITING!! That being said, turning yellow is not a good sign at all. Though usually it is easily knocked off once it is time and it is not pollinated.

Here is one about 2 weeks old and it has taken.