How do you Pollinate Milkweed Flowers?

Hi,
How do you pollinate Milkweed flowers? Thanks in advance.
Danny

Asclepias are complicated in structure for flowers, bearing their pollen in packets called pollinia. Usually an insect gets a foot or proboscis caught in a groove in the flower and then the pollinium catches onto it, and it gets delivered to the right spot in the next flower. They do not set many seed pods, considering the number of flowers per cluster. For more details, check this link:
http://www.ig-ascleps.org/pollination_of_stapeliads_by_ger.htm
It is an article written by Jerry Barad, a good friend, who is an expert on stapeliad pollination, among many other plant related topics. He developed a technique for pollinating them which probably would apply with minor modifications to asclepias, which are in the same family.
It's even more complex than pollinating orchids, but with determined effort and the right equipment, it should work.
Ernie

thanks. I am trying to make a milkweed hybrid between Asclepias curassavica Silky Gold and Silky Scarlet. do you have ideas?

Hi,
Since they are both selections of the same species, the easy way to do this is to let it happen naturally, eg plant several plants of each in a group together and let the natural pollinators do it. When you sow the resulting seed, the offspring will be a mix of selfs and crosses between the two varieties.
For trying to cross different species, a more technical approach such as I suggested previously is probably required.
Good luck

thank-you. What about calotropis gigantea? Where is the pollinia on that flower.