Congratulations! From what I gathered through googling, you are to wait until the pods fall off.

I'm currently germinating some seeds right now, I used potting soil and slightly covered them. I have a few developed roots in 11 days. You can try the wet paper towel method too, they will sprout faster.

Thanks, Kemistry.
Good to know that I need to wait for the pods to fall off (or go brown).
I'm just very curious to see what will they will end up with
Happy ThanksGiving

I don't think it's necessary to wait for them to fall off- just to turn mushy. Let the pods dry before crumbling the seeds out to plant very early spring. I have over 500 seedlings of Daisy x Chuck Hayes and reciprocal crosses this year, and some Daisy x Mystery from the year before.
See here:
http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/load/fragrant/msg0512254729036.html?3

wow tnangela, nevermind the flowers, the seedlings are gorgeous already!!! Do you plan to sell them? :)

I really want to continue breeding for cold hardiness. I already have a selection from Daisy x Mystery that didn't show any cold damage from 0F. I don't have room in my yard for 500 more gardenias so if you know anyone who lives around Tennessee who would like 500 gardenia seedlings to field test for me I would give them away- with the only condition that I could come air layer some selections later in the future.

tnangela that is very impressive! Best wishes for your experiment.
Changsong

Guys, I have a question...

How do you manually pollinate gardenias.... Sorry but I'm a newbie to gardenia pollination. How should one do it and when ?