The Glade 4.0

"Turn the lights down, the party just got wilder."
It is currently Sun Nov 24, 2024 4:45 pm

View unanswered posts | View active topics


Board index » The Glade » General

All times are UTC - 6 hours [ DST ]



Post new topic Reply to topic  Page 1 of 1
  [ 9 posts ] 
  Print view Previous topic | Next topic 
Author Message
Vladimirr
PostPosted: Mon Mar 14, 2011 9:14 am 
Offline
User avatar

Joined: Wed Feb 03, 2010 8:20 am
Posts: 1037
To our forum gardeners... if you grow plants inside, or in a screened enclosure, how do you get them to pollenate?

I picked up a cheapo electric toothbrush last year, because I dunno... I figured it would be like a bee buzzing around. It works okay, but it is a little strong and I end up losing perfectly good pollen to the air or ground. I'm at about an average 25% success rate depending on the plant (some better, some worse).

I'm moving a lot of the garden outside this year, but I still plan to grow things on the porch too.

Any alternative ideas?

_________________
Image Image Image Image Image
Top
 Profile  
Reply with quote  
Oonagh
PostPosted: Mon Mar 14, 2011 9:43 am 
Offline
The Reason
User avatar

Joined: Fri Sep 04, 2009 3:39 pm
Posts: 859
I know with indoor tomatoes that the plants are self fertile so just shake the plant every few days or use a small paintbrush and brush pollen on the inside of the other blossoms of the plant. This can be done with other plants as well not just Tomatoes.

_________________
"None is more important, none more legitimate, than that of rendering the people safe as they are the
ultimate guardians of their own liberty."- Thomas Jefferson

"Yeah, I'm rehearsing my poker face. I don't handle stupid well. *sigh*" - Farsky
Top
 Profile  
Reply with quote  
Mookhow
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Mon Mar 14, 2011 9:50 am 
Offline
God of the IRC
User avatar

Joined: Wed Sep 02, 2009 7:35 pm
Posts: 3041
Location: The United States of DESU
Make sure you wear a bee costume when you do it, or the plants get confused.

_________________
Image
Top
 Profile  
Reply with quote  
Oonagh
 Post subject: Re:
PostPosted: Mon Mar 14, 2011 10:28 am 
Offline
The Reason
User avatar

Joined: Fri Sep 04, 2009 3:39 pm
Posts: 859
Mookhow wrote:
Make sure you wear a bee costume when you do it, or the plants get confused.


:lol: Win

_________________
"None is more important, none more legitimate, than that of rendering the people safe as they are the
ultimate guardians of their own liberty."- Thomas Jefferson

"Yeah, I'm rehearsing my poker face. I don't handle stupid well. *sigh*" - Farsky
Top
 Profile  
Reply with quote  
Vladimirr
 Post subject: Re:
PostPosted: Mon Mar 14, 2011 10:33 am 
Offline
User avatar

Joined: Wed Feb 03, 2010 8:20 am
Posts: 1037
Mookhow wrote:
Make sure you wear a bee costume when you do it, or the plants get confused.


...

What is it with you people!? When I asked my last team this same question, they came back with this same answer! :lol:

_________________
Image Image Image Image Image
Top
 Profile  
Reply with quote  
Hopwin
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Mon Mar 14, 2011 10:36 am 
Offline
The Dancing Cat
User avatar

Joined: Wed Nov 04, 2009 2:21 pm
Posts: 9354
Location: Ohio
I haven't done it but I hear an ear/medical swab works just fine. But either way don't sweat it, much like sperm you don't need ALL the pollen to transfer for pollination to occur.

_________________
Quote:
In comic strips the person on the left always speaks first. - George Carlin
Top
 Profile  
Reply with quote  
Nevandal
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Tue Mar 15, 2011 3:27 am 
Offline
User avatar

Joined: Sun Sep 20, 2009 5:31 pm
Posts: 1532
try a fan?

_________________
Ron Paul 2012
Top
 Profile  
Reply with quote  
Elmarnieh
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Tue Mar 15, 2011 6:26 am 
Offline
adorabalicious
User avatar

Joined: Thu Sep 03, 2009 10:54 am
Posts: 5094
Wait, you need sperm to transfer to plants Hopwin?

_________________
"...but there exists also in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to attempt to lower the powerful to their own level and reduces men to prefer equality in slavery to inequality with freedom." - De Tocqueville
Top
 Profile  
Reply with quote  
Hopwin
 Post subject: Re:
PostPosted: Tue Mar 15, 2011 6:49 am 
Offline
The Dancing Cat
User avatar

Joined: Wed Nov 04, 2009 2:21 pm
Posts: 9354
Location: Ohio
Elmarnieh wrote:
Wait, you need sperm to transfer to plants Hopwin?

Actually, yes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollen

_________________
Quote:
In comic strips the person on the left always speaks first. - George Carlin
Top
 Profile  
Reply with quote  
Display posts from previous:  Sort by  
Post new topic Reply to topic  Page 1 of 1
  [ 9 posts ] 

Board index » The Glade » General

All times are UTC - 6 hours [ DST ]

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 211 guests

You cannot post new topics in this forum
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum
You cannot post attachments in this forum

Search for:
Jump to:  
Powered by phpBB® Forum Software © phpBB Group