I gave up on hybridizing Fuchsia after two summer's without success, but I would LOVE to hear and see how others do it (
@midnight21 )!! Maybe by osmosis someday it will sink in and I'll be able to get from cross-pollination to viable seeds to OMG seedlings. Even other tales of mishaps might give me insight into what needs to be done.
I approached it the same way I do daylilies ... pollen applied to stigma, mark the bloom with notation, and harvest seemingly ripe berries. Though, all of them seem to produce berries and doesn't seem like much difference in how "ripe seeded" ones look. Anyway, after opening the berry (and getting a nice Fuchsia-henna design on my fingers) I also could not really tell if I ever saw a ripe seed. I did try sprouting them, like I would with a tomato seed, on damp coffee filters in a slightly open baggie. Nothing, nada, zilch.
