The prickly balls dry up and burst open and inside them are the seeds. Carefully with out getting poked put your fingers in and drop seeds into a bowl under. (this is what I do) Unless you plan on trading do not bother collecting as where the plant was this year, you should have many tiny plants next year. Also be careful to wash hands thoroughly as all parts of Datura are poisonous

gr8heather, I thought I could find a helpful answer for you, but this may not be helpful. What you need is someone who understands this much better than I do, but I figured I should post the links to help you or the expert who might happen along. Best of luck! These vendors say it's hybrid: http://www.gurneys.com/product.asp?pn=80662 http://www.gourmetseed.com/product/PK14/Pumpkin-One-Too-Many-F1-Hybrid.html http://www.osborneseed.com/product-details.cfm?pumpkin--one-too-many-f1 Neither Jung nor Reimer mention it being hybrid, but list it as PVP or PVP applied for. https://www.jungseed.com/dp.asp?pID=03289&c=138&p=One+Too+Many+Pumpkin http://www.reimerseeds.com/one-too-many-pumpkins.aspx PVP means you can't legally propagate it and sell seed or plants; I don't know if you can propagate it and sell fruit legally from seed you've saved. But in any case, if it's really PVP, then the variety must be open-pollinated rather than hybrid. This info makes me wonder if the vendors who call it F1 have a lawsuit in their future. http://www.ext.colostate.edu/pubs/crops/00301.html http://www.iphandbook.org/handbook/ch10/p11/ And then there's Rupp (never heard of them before), who say nothing about hybrid or PVP: http://www.ruppseeds.com/divvegetable/onetoomany.htm?mnu=4 If you don't get a response here, you might also try the Vegetables forum. This post was edited by missingtheobvious on Tue, Feb 12, 13 at 19:55

depending on the hosta plant you got the seeds from, some will be blue, some yellow, and mostly green. Inniswood (open polinated) that I have grown seed from gave many yellows opposed to green (and some blues). last year I crossed Northern Exposure (pollen) with Inniswood (pod parent) and still got many yellow (about 90%). Paul

It's an excellent question and one that should really be repeated once in a while. The short answer is no. The overall morphology is more strongly expressed in cultivars but the colors of the flowers is dramatically less predictable. The only person I know who have committed to an actual rate of success is Mr. Ko who said the odds are somewhere around 20 to 25 percent, even with careful hand-pollinating technique. In any case, even if you end up with 8 out of 10 seeds that do not bloom as advertised, that's still 8 plants you can play around with---grafting, root torture, splitting and doing the curly thing. The possibilities are endless. Pagan