My first flowers are blooming right now. They start out pale but develop into a delicious pale orange sherbert color. I self pollinated them and I believe I will have four seed pods. I read that to get seeds, they have to be cross-pollinated; is that always true?
If anyone has any seed crosses or cuttings, I would love to trade for them. I don't have any more cuttings (from my small collection,) but I do have many AVs grown from nice leaves purchased on the web or at an AV convention. Also I have streptocarpus plants ready to go. In addition, I have very young sanguinea red seedlings and a few other seedlings that I have just put into 5oz Dixie cups.
You mean my seeds will be sterile?
Yes, they have to be cross pollinated. And if they have pods, and are not variegates, then there is every reason to think you can grow new plants from them without anything but the usual problems. Plants that are not self compatible have all kinds of neat little booby traps that keep their own pollen from ever getting to the ovary. A bug may have beaten you, or come behind you , if you didn't protect the stigma. Good luck!! I hope you get something really special!!
Lagata, I think I have heard that brugs (not sangs etc) can form pods without being cross pollinated but the seeds are sterile. Maybe I didn't hear it. LOL. What do you think?
I had a Butterfly form pods when no other brug was blooming(middle of winter, in the greenhouse). It made two pods, but none of the seeds germinated.
Odd and interesting, and should be against plant rules. But Susie's experience would indicate better than any open air experiment, that it can happen...worth researching.
Sorry GloriaG, but you can still plant them and hope.
And I do not think I even heard that from you, Susie.