OK, first, Ron, I do not apologise for my teehee-ing. You'll see why in a minute.
If your seeds are from a flower bred to itself, you will most likely be disappointed, so sorry! Flowers/plants must be crossed with a different flower/plant to make headway in this crazy game of ?? flowermanship. Flowerpersonship!
A crumb of consolation to you: I remembered this morning about advice to always cut the leading, first flower bud. This was about Calandulas. It said the plant's hormones change when they start making flower buds, and if you do cut off the first bud, the plant will respond with vigorous growth and production of limbs and buds. Aha, time will tell!
Now for one of my many sad stories. I have a 'black' single, and a 'black' double that must be a second generation of the single. They actually bloomed at the same time, and I did a lot of crossing. Aha! A baby pod! Hooray! Dancing around!!
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One of the parents, not black with sunshine, the color fades from a deep gorgeous dark purple to this, which is pleasing but just not that dark color. "Star of Black Night"
The baby pod, LOOK AT THAT COLOR!!! WOW!!!! And WOW again!!
So what did I do? When I sprayed all my pods with weak fertilizer, I sprayed that pair double. Wheee, I was SO happy! What did the pods do? They dropped off, right in my hand after a week or so. Loved to death. The double plant is putting on a lot of buds now, but the single flower plant is not. pfffft. The single simply does not bloom much or often.
So, I know your feeling! I've murdered several lovely plants with "love" in the form of WATER, just plain water.
And I still get a giggle when I think of your cry of dismay at seeing those buds. I've been there too many times myself.
