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B.aurea can be cross pollinated with versicolor, suaveolens, or another aurea hybrids pollen. Any combination within those three is possible,but one is best to remember that Brugmansia are largely self sterile. A sister seedling can pollinate a sister seedling or either of its parents. The 5 fuzzy parts inside the flower that drop dust are called the anthers and the parts one uses to pollinate the single pistal in the center. The center pistal...its tip is called the stigma and is the part that is pollinated. This tip will occassionally split open a bit so one can pollinate inside the stigma as well as on the sides of its tip. One can apply pollen to the stigma or tip of the pistal before the flower actually opens by tearing the flower open from the bottom. As soon as one sees the buds forming one should begin to water a bit more liberally generally and one should continue to water a bit more liberally until the seed pod is picked. Not watering the Brugmansia enough while the seedpod is developing can result in small and even undeveloped seedpods. My seedpods average anywhere from 160-420 seeds. Thats a lot of seeds for most people and it produces many more Brugmansia than simply taking cuttings...One selects a hybrid one is going to hybridize with because it has characteristics one would like to expound upon or because it has characteristics one thinks may be hiden within..ie it hasn't been hybridized with before or its a wild specimen. One can pair the two most floriferous early bloomers for instance in ones yard to try to come up with a hybrid that outblooms and blooms much earlier than either parent. Sometimes one does not get the all of the traits one is looking for in the first cross. When this happens one takes the seedling and crosses it to another seedling and or back to both of its parents.
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