Have been putting this question off for a long time but it's time I knew for sure before next season....Is it ok to pollinate blooms on the same bush or do you need to do it on 2 different plants??? since I've never had a seed pod on my one plant I wonder if I can get one , or some on that one plant by pollinating with blooms on the same plant...Duhhh
Dumb Question.
you need two plants unless its arborea. Do you need another?
No, it is a vital question : ) I some years ago I thought of the same question, but had noone to rely on, so I learned it the hard way by attempting to hybridize sanguinea x sanguinea and sanguinea x aurea *lol*. That was before I joined with you folks *lol* I knew exactly, which Datura species would cross and also obtained an impossible cross (inoxia x stramonium f-1 hybrids), but I was quite lost when I tried to cross Brugs.
It depends of the species. B. arborea is different from the rest of the Brugs, because you can take pollen from a flower and pollinate the same flower with it and get seed pods. You can also take pollen from one flower and pollinate another flower on the same tree in this species.
For all other Brugs it is a golden rule with only hypothetical excptions, that you need two seed grown trees to get pods. Take pollen from the first tree and pollinate a flower on the second etc. It is vital, that the trees are grown from seeds, because it they are cuttings from the same line of mother plants, there will be no pods.
Tig, I still don't know if I have a Charles G or not. I have taken lots of cuttings from it tho - made great Christmas presents!!. I feel so overwhelmed by all the terms - I don't even know what an Arborea is. Here is what I have besides my old yaller: Frosty pink, Isabella, a salmon and a J. Orange (or CG)these last ones are babies and have not bloomed yet.
you can cross Isabella, FP, and probably your salmon with CG, and each other. Jutner Orange and CG are said to be the same brug. But I'd cross it with one of the others so as not to waste time if they are.
Yippee, Thanks guys, can't wait til spring. Maybe thanks to you I can be posting pod pics next year!!
So what's an Arborea??
Ok, so if I understand you all correctly, then the cuttings that I have will only grow and make pretty flowers and if I want to have some with pods on them I will have to start from scratch or seed as it were? How hard are the brugs to grow from seed. I haven't tried that. Just have a few cuttings that are rooting. Dee
Dee you can get seed pods on the hybrids you have. You'll need to cross pollinate them by hand - or you could get lucky and have the bees do it for you if you have two different plants blooming at the same time. You need 2 different parents to get seed pods - one would be the pollen doner and the other being the pod parent. I'm new at it too so I'm not the best to explain it.
Brugmansia aborea is self fertile and it will produce seed pods without another parent.
How do you know if you have a B aborea???
What we are all trying to state simply is this. If you have a Brugmansia and take a cutting of it and try to pollinate the cutting once it blooms to the other half so to speak one will not get a seedpod unless one is dealing with arborea. You need genetically unique Brugmansia to cross to each other in other words. Butterfly x Lamour, Butterfly x Rosabell, etc. These hybrids can then be crossed to each other. Butterfly x Lamour x(Butterfly x Rosabell.
But what is ARBOREA???
Azalea it's doubtful you'd have arborea anyhow. It's not very common in the US. You'll need to cross pollinate your plants to get seeds.
Azalea - there are 7 Brugmansia wild species: Arborea, aurea, insignis, sanguinea, suaveolens, versicolor, vulcanicola. All self-sterile except Arborea.