Mookhow wrote:
Make sure you wear a bee costume when you do it, or the plants get confused.
Win
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| Author: | Vladimirr [ Mon Mar 14, 2011 9:14 am ] |
| Post subject: | Indoor Gardening: Pollenation |
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? |
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| Author: | Oonagh [ Mon Mar 14, 2011 9:43 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Indoor Gardening: Pollenation |
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. |
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| Author: | Mookhow [ Mon Mar 14, 2011 9:50 am ] |
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Make sure you wear a bee costume when you do it, or the plants get confused. |
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| Author: | Oonagh [ Mon Mar 14, 2011 10:28 am ] |
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Mookhow wrote: Make sure you wear a bee costume when you do it, or the plants get confused. Win
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| Author: | Vladimirr [ Mon Mar 14, 2011 10:33 am ] |
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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!
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| Author: | Hopwin [ Mon Mar 14, 2011 10:36 am ] |
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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. |
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| Author: | Nevandal [ Tue Mar 15, 2011 3:27 am ] |
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try a fan? |
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| Author: | Elmarnieh [ Tue Mar 15, 2011 6:26 am ] |
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Wait, you need sperm to transfer to plants Hopwin? |
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| Author: | Hopwin [ Tue Mar 15, 2011 6:49 am ] |
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Elmarnieh wrote: Wait, you need sperm to transfer to plants Hopwin? Actually, yes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollen |
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