Hibiscus: Hibiscus seedpod help, 0 by starlight1153

starlight1153 wrote:
Ok here ya go. Pic number 1...

It can be one of two things. If you look close sometimes you will see a filiment and an anther ( the part with the pollen on it) that kinda like has a crazy groth spurt and wil hang way longer than the normal ones.

Either that or the pistil didn't completely drop off when it started makign a seed pod which would be my main guess.

Pic two...... That is a pod aborting. If you look you will see 4 sometimes up to six little pads all gathered together where the pollen goes. If all thos e pads do not have fresh fluffy viable pollen on them together at once, the pod will abort. Bees are great for gettign pollen on part of the pad but not all of it and so they abort.

Sometimes pollen will blow of f from one flower onto another and again not enough pollen to make a viable pod. If you want to make some good pods. Go out early in the morning and get down as close to the eye as you can and gently rip out the pollen and go aroudn and dab it yourselves on the pads of the other blooms.

Pic 3......Eracrane is right. That is looks like a bloom. I have put a picture of what an emerging bud should look like. The one s that are gonna be viable, have they outside flaps that stay closed to protect the pod while it grows. Where ever you see a pod with the outside casing open and just a tiny green or brown thing in it. Go ahead and remove it. It won't grow and wil save your plant a bit of energy for other things plus wil help keep bugs down from coming for the rotten seeds and the sugars and carbs still in them.

Pic . 4 ... Aren't bugs a bear.. grrrrrr. I fighting grasshoppers too. At least they not as bad this year as last year. Last year I create d all kind s of new dance steps while out there with a flyswatter killing the darn things.