I've been trying to get some seeds from my Allamanda 'Cherries Jubilee' to trade. I looked at the picture of the seed pod in the plantfile http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/showimage/175009/ & I've seen nothing like that. Does anyone know how long it takes to get seeds?
Here's a close up of the flowers of the same plant.
I'm not sure that the seeds would come true even if it did make any, so I'd probably trade cuttings instead. I've grown several different Allamanda cultivars over the last few years (including this one) and have never seen any of them make seeds even though they flowered like crazy. So it's probably not anything you're doing wrong, some things are just a little more reluctant to set seeds than others. Or maybe they need to be hand pollinated or something.
I am new to Florida and found an Allamanda Cherries Jubilee in the back yard. I read that it was a vine but this looks like a tall leggy tree with branches growing all different ways. Flowers are only at the tips of a few branches. Since they are so beautiful I would like to make the plant lower, more bushy and produce more flowers. Does anyone have a suggestion?
Thank you for your advise about pruning. I will plant something at the bottom of the "tree" so that when I prune it back in the Spring and it begins to grow again the leggy part will be hidden.
Does that sound like a workable idea?
