Oh...right. Lack of sleep here. I took the lobes apart because I was curious to see them firsthand, and to *try* not selfing the moranensis. Excuse my lack of technical terms here - I'm too burned out to look them up again...
I used one toothpick to lift up the receiving pad on the moranensis, a dab of water on the end of another toothpick to pull the pollen straight out and away from the pad. Stuck that toothpick on the esseriana's pad.
Two new toothpicks to try and repeat the same on the esseriana, but there was very little pollen on the esseriana and it seemed rather dried up. Tried it anyway though I didn't see any pollen transfer off the toothpick. I wasn't thinking, and stuck the water in the same tray as the first toothpicks. So I may have selfed the moranensis despite my methods. Either way, I'll get something
Both pads were shriveled up by morning, not sure if that means it's a sucessful pollination or if they simply dried up from lack of petals.
This moranensis is one of those "longwood" clones discussed in another thread (Tamlin's "Pink I think") so I'm hoping to find out for soon if it really is moranensis var caudata or some wacky hybrid/cultivar. We might have a mutt on our hands. Which isn't a bad thing, as long as I know its heritage
Any chance that a seed set can be sterile?