Excellent ones = BEYOND THE SKY (Morss 08) and GASPING FOR BREATH (Niswonger 09). Neither has huge numbers of pods on it, but that's because I decided to leave them alone after a certain number, eg, GASPING has nine pods. I could very easily have kept using it until I exhausted the plant. BTW I just love BEYOND THE SKY. One of my very favorite daylilies. Registered as an evergreen, but it has always performed admirably here. And with flawless flowers every time. Another very good pod setter has been BLUES IN THE NIGHT, a Bud Bennett dip from 2010. Like the other two I mentioned, it has a decent number of pods, but not a huge number, but that was on purpose. Also GREYWOODS GIDDY UP GIRL. What a beautiful flower! It's registered as a ML, but it started early and has kept chugging along. In fact, this thread reminded me to go check on it and, while I was out there, I stuck some pollen on one of the blooms. Also good although most are bee pods = BROWN WITCH. Would have been good every single time, and with any pollen I think = WAITING ON A CALL (Yost 03). Except that I purposefully avoided it this year. I have boatloads of seeds from last year that I never bothered to plant. I think every thing I used took. WOAC is very vigorous and, like every Yost daylily I grow, has great plant habit. But the flower would no longer be considered au courant. "Haven't had much luck with her since she blooms so late" Dani, it's very clearly past peak here, so choices with specific cultivars are obviously limited. But I still have lots of blooms to go. Partly it seems to be an extended bloom season, also MLs and lates, but I also have quite a bit of rebloom. Or did things bloom later, not earlier??? WHEN BEARS FLY, a midseason, has three scapes flowering merrily away. MY UTMOST FOR HIS HIGHEST has two scapes full of buds, but that one's a ML. I have VAMPIRE BAT, and I was just delighted when it put up an instant rebloom scape. It's in flower today in fact. SPARKLING CHAMPAGNE, another midseason daylily, is full of scapes still with a fair number of buds still to do. What's up with that one I wonder? Ditto RASPBERRY SUEDE. Anyway, I am obviously on the verge of hijacking this thread, if not past it! ROCK SOLID was a very good pod setter. Whether it'd be a great one I've no idea - like most things here, it got pollen haphazardly and because I happened to be standing near a bloom with pollen in my hand. (I'm clearly no hybridizer!) But it's still in bloom. Supposed to be a rebloomer, so I guess that's what it's doing. Also quite good is SELF DETERMINATION, a ML.

I'm assuming that you are referring to Clitoria ternatea. 1. Seed maturation will depend on local conditions. 2. Daily observation of an individual pod will give you information on the time of shattering i.e. as to when it "throws' its seeds out to reseed itself", note this time data. 3. Use the data to determine the last point before shattering and utilize to collect the individual pods. 3. Optimum harvesting will require frequent observations, note: in practise this means daily inspection - as the pods will not mature simultaneously. 4. Observation is the key!

Interesting reading, all of this. I think as long as people approaching middle age and beyond look for a diet regimen that can essentially reverse the aging process--- more energy, fewer to no health problems--- preventing any new illnesses and reversing the lifetime effects of what they've eaten up to that point, there will be studies, books, and food products to satisfy the market. Today's wonder diet or food is usually tomorrow's carcinogen. But alternative (this free, that free) and organic---- if a universal standard is ever adopted--- markets are the fastest sectors of the food industry, so at the least all this specialization is growing the economy :-) Don't you wonder, though, if this will be the next human rights issue.....if the affluent are sure that certain foodstuffs are dangerous long term to human health, how can we allow the poor to consume them with no protections?

The pods are unlikley to be a significant problem, although they could lead to some seedlings. But black locusts are notorious for sending up root shoots or suckers: "Root suckers are an important method of local reproduction of this tree. The roots may grow suckers after damage (by being hit with a lawn mower or otherwise damaged) or after no damage at all. The suckers are stems which grow from the roots, directly into the air and may grow into full trees. The main trunk also has the capability to grow sprouts and will do so after being cut down.[12] This makes removal of black locust difficult as the suckers need to be continually removed from both the trunk and roots or the tree will regrow. This is considered an asexual form or reproduction."