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That is really nice!! Last year I collected around half a dozen seed pods from my variegated Aloe arborescens. One of the seedlings turned out somewhat variegated.
These are my tree Aloes that are currently spiking...africana, arborescens, ferox, thraskii, speciosa and vaombe. Unfortunately my variegated arborescens hasn't started to spike yet! Last year I relied on my hummingbird to do the grunt work. The results were mediocre so this year I was planning on pollinating all my blooming tree Aloes with the pollen from my variegated arborescens. The goal would be to hopefully create a variegated tree Aloe as nice as Aloe ferox 'Daley Mist'.
Unfortunately my variegated arborescens seems to have other plans. Ack. But it has some offsets getting some nice size. I guess I finally ran out of friends that wanted it. So in spring I'll strategically allocate them around my other tree Aloes...and water them frequently over summer. Hopefully they'll get large enough to flower by the end of the year. Then I should have more than enough pollen to spread around.
My other goals are a red tree Aloe and a fuzzy tree Aloe.
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2023 update
in terms of a big red tree aloe, what i have so far are some seedlings that i'm hoping are aloe africana x cameronii, for example...
for comparison, here is what i'm guessing is a pure aloe africana...
aloe africana has fairly serious spines, as does the possible hybrid. plus both their leaves are more upright than cameronii, whose leaves also grow more densely.
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