This year, I finally had two different brugs blooming at the same time,(an unnamed white and a Frosty Pink) and volia! I have two seed pods on my Frosty Pink. Since the hummingbird moths did the pollenating, I don't know where the pollen came from. Can I assume it came from the unnamed white, or is it possible the moths carried pollen from a different flower of the Frosty Pink? I guess what I'm asking is whether you can cross a cultivar back to itself?
Offhand, I can't think of a reason one would want to, although the laws of reassortment WOULD insure some variety in the seedlings. Just trying to figure out who's the 'father'.
Hybridizing question: Who's the father?
If you get viable seeds from those seed pods.....I think the papa would have to be the unnamed white brug.
MsBatt
When I used pollen from a Jutner Orange to pollinate another Jutner Orange, I didn't get any seeds in the pods. The little pods grew to about 2 inches long and then fell off. The same thing happened when I tried to cross Frosty Pink X Frosty Pink, the pods fell off after a couple of weeks. So I would guess that your White is the proud papa.
Ditto-arborea is the only Brugmansia that will self seed and have viable seeds.
Well, one of my three pods has bitten the dust---it didn't fall off, it's stem dried up all the way back to the main branch. a second one is still on, but looking that funny yellow-green vrug tips turn just before they wrinkle up and die, and it hasn't gotten but about an inch and a half long. But the third is about the size of a tender okra pod, and looks healthy. Everybody keep their fingers crossed for me, okay?
MsBatt
We will keep them crossed for you. I know that terrible sinking feeling when the pods fall off. Some of my first ones did, before Brugman told me to use a different pollen.