I know this has been addressed before but how do I know my pod is ready to pick?The one on my pink is large,has been there quite a long time,not sure of a date.Its now getting soft,I don't know if it's ready or getting ready to rot.HELP!!!!
Seed pod
CC, brugman says the peduncle turns yellow...i am not sure what a peduncle is. gloria says when she can feel the individual seeds inside. i picked one going soft, think it was old enough. once again, i am no help......
I can feel the individual seeds,my DH wants me to just pick it.Even if I do pick it - then what?Cut it open?Dry it first?And who wants some?No way can I grow them all.Its a cross of my white and the pink
The penduncle is the part that attaches the flower to the stem of the plant. It's like a little "stem" that goes between the top of the seed pod and attaches to the stem of the plant.
Ran up and checked it.ITS YELLOW!!! I'm shaking I'm so excited.Now what????
I would love to grow them for you, but Eric is supposed to be sending me some seed, and I won't have room, but I know you will have a bunch of takers. I think he said pick it when you can feel the seeds and before it gets real soft. it's in here somewhere.
Glory
Oct 27, 2001
PICK IT!!!!
Lol, pick the darn thing-its yellow peduncle and soft-it will be rotting and drying up in two shakes of a nats eye if you don't.
Glory
Oct 27, 2001
Brugman,
I forgot to tell you but I found a pod on my neighbors Brug that looked like it had been dried up for months...I took it home planted the seeds and low and behold the babies are popping up everywhere....I didn't realize they would grow in that condition.
Glory,
I have started seeds the same way and that is the prefered way if it were not for bugs eating the seeds at that point and burrowing into the seeds themselves...or simply spilling out via a hole in the side. I have found holes bored into fresh seedpods as well, reminds me of a mini woodpecker hole. Spraying them seems to darken the seeds near the hole to an orange color and if one simply wrapped the seedpod up in a bag-well I think they might rot completly rather than being protected. Perhaps a stocking or such to protect them-but then this might bind them and stockings are better suited for use in grafting Brugmansia in my experience. That and ducktape-but ducktape has to be watched a bit more closely or it pinches in two deeply...not to mention it can pull the graft apart when trying to remove the tape.
All in all, the best thing I have found for grafting Brugmansia are those latex stretch bandages that stick to themselves. Best time to graft, when one has two fast growing cuttings placed side on the outside of container instead of centered. Preferably a square container so they can be placed in the corners and then matched up without damaging the roots...Tap the fully rooted cuttings out of the container and tape them up together...plant in a 1 gallon pot and retape once a week or so until fully rooted and growing strong again...then simply remove tape or bandage wrap for final time and make ones cuts...match the cuts up-wrap again-and in two weeks you have a perfect graft. Grafting at 3 or 4 different points adds a nice touch when they fully grow together and one can always tap a potted smaller cutting to the trunk or a small branch and leave it to grow/graft together while remaining rooted as well. After the grafted smaller cutting has taken, simply cut the roots off and let it take off....
I really must stop rambling....
Keep up the good work Crested.
This message was edited Saturday, Oct 27th 10:57 AM
Thanks Eric, If anyone wants any of these seeds for postage e-mail me.They are a cross of these two plants.One white x one pink .Heres the links to the pictures http://davesgarden.com/showthread/61120.html , http://davesgarden.com/showthread/59079.html
Wow Brugmansia your going to make a monster out of me.
I am going to give grafting a try Thanks for the info