Here are some of the Jutner Orange seed pods I have as well as one blooming in the "Jungle House"
Jutner Orange Pods
Cala, did you pollinate all your brugs or did some just get pollinated? i had no luck trying to pollinate, then starting in august i started getting pods everywhere. probable have about 30 on JO, 10 on X White, and 15-20 between DS, CG, Isabella, SW, XVP....moth pollinated...
I did at first know all the crosses, but started getting the little X-tags mixed up. Basically I use whatever is blooming at the time. I crossed Ecuador Pink/Jutner Orange, Frosty Pink/ Jutner Orange, Jutner Orange/Suaveolens White, Isabella/Jutner Orange, Isabella/Suaveolens white. I did all these by hand, I did find some moths in the Jungle house, but none seem to have achieved polination. I experimented at first with using JO/JO and it didn't work. The moths had tried to polinate, but I think they only stayed on the JO, hence no cross polination.
I've also found that the pollen is sometimes too "green" or sometimes too old. The stigma is sometimes at the wrong stage to accept pollen. It will stick out between the anthers, goes back up inside them, and then sticks back out again. Seems like the perfect time to pollinate is when the bloom isn't quite open and the stigma is hanging down below the anthers. The pollen from this flower usually isn't ripe, but you want to use a different flower anyway. Seems like the pollen is "ripe" on the first day the flower is fully open.
Have I been rambling? Have I got too much time on my hands?
The pistal is ripe many days before the flower opens generally. The larger or more developed the pistal the better the pollen takes though as the larger the surface area and the more area for the pollen to adhere to. Pistal or stigma splitting when it occurs is of course the best time from my experience as one can apply the pollen over a much broader surface. Pollen can be ripe the day before a flower opens occassionally as well, but seems to be adversely affected by high temperatures. Cooler temps tend to bring out the color in many hybrids as well. I pollinate most of my flowers long before their own pollen has ripenend and before the flower has opened. Keep up the rambling Cala! I enjoy hearing someone as excited about hybridizing as myself.
Brugman, I've learned most of what I know from you and Glory. So you keep up the good educational work!!