seeds from mock orange variety?

Hi everyone, I was unable to root cuttings of a mock orange bush I fell in love with, 'Polar star', so I collected some seed pods. I can't find if this is something that will revert back to a generic mock orange, if it will look like the Polar star, or if it will be a completely different looking plant/flower. Any help would be appreciated, my brain is fried trying to figure this out.

Sincerely,
beakerlj
zone 5b
SW Michigan

In a general discussion of woody plant seed propagation in Dirr and Heuser's "The Reference Manual of Woody Plant Propagation," Dirr dwells on the inherent variability of seed propagation. He states that the great obstacle of nurserymen propagating by seed from cultivars is the variability of the progeny (the child doesn't necessarily look like the parent). Short answer is that you won't really know until the new plant grows. To ensure you get what you want, it might be best to take softwood cuttings from the parent plant in June/July for rooting. My experience is that they are easy to root, and layering is the lazy gardener's friend. I suggest you focus on not overwatering the cuttings, simply because that is what I observe to be the single greatest cause of stem cutting failures. Good gardening!

Yea, that is when I took the softwood cuttings. I had them under mist, but maybe should have moved them out sooner. I can't even find what Polar star's parents are! I'm guessing it is a cross between two species, as opposed to two cultivers. I can't seem to find a species name connected with it at all! I'm hoping it is a stable hybrid, one the comes true to seed. Some hybrids do, and I'm an optimist. I'm just impatient enough to want to know now, instead of 5 years from now. Anyone know the parents of this cultivar?

Thanks, beakerlj

There's no way to know what the seedlings will look like unless you give it a try. Hybrids like that won't come true from seed--sometimes you'll get babies that look so close to the parent that you wouldn't know they were different, but sometimes they'll look noticeably different. You can't really predict ahead of time what'll happen, that's part of the fun of seed starting! I am not familiar with this plant and what differentiates it from other mock oranges, but if it's variegated, I think that's less likely to come true from seed than other characteristics would be, variegated plants generally have to be propagated from cuttings. And if its fragrance was especially beautiful, that's also something that can be pretty variable when you grow things from seed, so again I'd probably do cuttings if you want to preserve the original.