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Thanks for the pics T, I don't think I've seen the shapes like that before, not on my plant. Either: a. I pick the heads too early or... b. The pollination was not successful Even those 2 capsules look different than yours. I'll keep updating.

If anyone has any picture of a mature kratom pod with actual capsules shown, please post it here. I've been looking for a picture of the pod, but my best result is this. It's fom Wikipedia's article on Kratom written by Murple. The pods in this picture is totally different than mine, making me think that my pods might not develop into seeds, though they have attached to the twigs for about 4 months. The seed capsules shown on his picture also look bigger than mine, at least when I compare them to Lincoln's nose shown on the coin.

A bunch of ripe Mitragyna speciosa seed pods, one of them has 2 seed capsules still attached. On the background is the Mitragyna speciosa leaf (picture below): A ripe Mitragyna speciosa seed pod, 2 seed capsules of which have been removed by hand. The other parts of the pod have also been removed but they are empty, either because the capsules have been ejected or still have not been developed. On the background is the Mitragyna speciosa leaf (picture below):

Here's an update on the kratom. I've picked almost all of the brown pods from my kratom tree. I believe they were mature already, as I had waited for 4 months. Weird, there were no capsules except two, though I wrapped 2 of the pods with pantyhose. Only from one of the unwrapped pods, I found 2 tiny capsules trying to get out of the holes, so I took them out and carefully opened with 2 fingernails on a piece of white paper. Inside the capsule were many smaller, almost invisible 'things' that I spread on the paper, but because they were so tiny and I didn't prepare anything, they soon disappeared into nowhere. There are some other brown pods remain on the tree, those I watch occasionally, in a hope to find another lucky capsule half-ejected like previously, but I've seen nothing, only some undevelopped pods. What could be wrong? That capsule might be a self-eject type capsule but why is there so rare to find the capsule. Are you supposed to find a capsule in each hole of the pod? After you pick a pod, can you force it to produce a capsule by let's say put it in a ziplock transparent plastic bag and dry it out under the sunlight? Those two seeds that I wrapped up with pantyhose-like cloth didn't produce any capsule at all. I felt so stupid that I didn't equipped myself with magnifying glass, or any tools to capture and store the seeds. I will post some pictures of the pods and the 2 capsules on the following Monday.

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Wow that's inspiring, an elastic pantyhose that secures the grafting, filter, seed pod wrapping material. It's not easily found where I live because of the warm climate and thus pantyhose is seldom used, except in some special events, especially when women want to make their skin looks whiter. Here's more use I got from google: Place old pantyhose inside small pots. Add potting soil. They allow water to get through but not the soil. It'll also make the repotting/transplanting easier. My kratty is about 3 m tall (measured from the ground to the top leaves). The tree is "Y" shaped. The main trunk goes up to 1.70 m, with perimeter of 27 - 33 cm. From there, it splits into two secondary trunks, each of which has branches that grow to all direction.

I have seen some local farmers do with mangoes, starfruits etc to prevent them from pests like fruit flies, bats, birds etc: they wrap them with transparant plastic sheet. Just punch some tiny holes and you get your air. Thank's for the pantyhose idea, T, that's very creative. I was seeing some funny situation here - sorry I'm a private cartoonist, I couldn't help it Sorry it should go to the "Art & Creativity" but then it would become irrelevant without T's comment. Cheers!

Each "A" capsule only measure up to 4 mm long and 1.5 mm wide. I tried to open one capsule with a small cutter but there is no such sliver. I guess you're right, they might haven't developed yet. I'll wrap the other pods left on the tree with transparent plastic so I won't lose them when it's time for them to drop.

Good luck, I love orchids too (especially phalaenopsis). I've heard that some people use coconut water as a medium in TC.

Well, so you do the tube part and I do the ground part, how's that mate? No matter what, you're very lucky to have access to a TC lab and so on... I don't even have a microscope But I'm lucky to have this rake and a hoe and piece of fertile ground. So we're both are very lucky, no? :D

SEED POD OK Darklight, I'm sacrificing one seed pod for the sake of science Here's the original seed pod, having diameter of 0.8 cm. Now, from the above pod, I break it off into several parts: A, B, and C (see below): #B is the shape of the pod after I pulled out some parts of its outer structures, imagine pulling out someone's hairs until you see a partly-bald head. #A and #C are the tiny 'hairs' that were pulled out from the head. As they are different in shape, I separate them to make it easier to identify. Which one is the capsule: A or C?