Cindy...ya have to hand pollinate for
seeds and have to be different types.the only self pollinateing brugmansia is cypress gardens.I have enough of a variety to get pollination now,but can't get the ones I need to bloom at the right time.you can collect pollin and store in fridge,but have to do with a sterile brush or Q tip.It would be harder for me to have my
seeds ripen unless got it on the 1st flush.I don't dig my
plants.I cut mine back.the one
seed pod I had did not do after cutting& rooting the stem,the seedpod yellowed and fell off& I called it quiet a few nasty things.
Brugs are perienial,but their roots are only hardy to a
zone 7 with protection.others will dig theirs and place in pots or they grow them in 15 gallon pots and sink the pots in ground and snip the roots in fall when they excavate them& they either let them grow,or cut back to the "Y" you can keep them semi dormant in temps of 50-60.Frost will burn the leaves& the cold will turn the stem the mush.I have one with a real think trunk and can not cut it back all the way so let it get frost& cold and when dries out then am able to get it off(I'm gonna try the saw saw this year on that)
of seen pics of a woman who lives north.she has pots of brugs all in her house.I seen one sit by her chair...with her drink& ash tray and remote...just like part of the family.she even put christmas lights& ornaments on some cause is no room on her
tree. The things we'd do for a brugmansia..lmao