I think sometimes when we don't listen to the experts but just do what makes sense, we discover "new" ways of doing things.
And hey, this morning I was looking at that saved seedling and the stem that was left from the popped off top is actually putting out some tiny leaves. I did not know it would do that!
My daughter-in-law Sandy decided to pollinate her culebra blossoms last summer. None of them made pods but she did it again in November when it and some other brugs were blooming in her greenhouse and she got three pods out of her doing something I told her "would not work"! Why did I tell her that? Because it was "common knowledge" that you could not cross culebra to another brug....... good thing she did not listen to me!!!
She has told me she will give me a few of the seeds! So far, the only brugs with culebra's strappy leaves are on brugs that are growing in South America............and Australia!!! And Aussies are hybridizing those and sharing a few seeds with some select American brug growers. Will be interesting to see what comes of these Aussie seedlings and now, the culebra seedlings! I just love brugs with those strappy serrated leaves!!
Quinde..a South American species
http://www.abads.org/abads/ima...
And a Quinde seedling, Taita's Gift.................notice the leaves, with trumpet shaped blossoms!!
http://www.brugmansia.us/forum...
