Summary
This YouTube video provides a quick tip on how to pollinate indoor vegetables, such as pepper plants and tomatoes, using a Q-tip.
Highlights
- 🌱 The video demonstrates how to pollinate indoor plants using a fluffed Q-tip.
- 🌼 Pollination is necessary for plants to produce fruit, and the technique shown in the video can be applied to any flowering plant that needs to be self-pollinated.
- 🍅 The technique can also be used for pollinating tomato and bean plants.
- 🌸 It’s recommended to pollinate both flowers on a plant to ensure successful pollination.
- 🌺 Some varieties of peppers are self-pollinating, but it’s still advisable to manually pollinate to ensure a good yield.
- 🎓 The video creator shares a personal update on looking at colleges at the beginning of the video.
- 🌿 The creator also mentions having loads of buds on their pepper plants, implying a successful harvest in the future.
lol, I also posted a video on this today, well not exactly, I've got Jalapeno plants that I'm growing hydroponicly. I talked about swabing with my finger instead of a qtip and have about 9 jalapeno peppers growing!
How did you get action?
@MIgardener I have seen the shirt before! But thought I would get that out of the way since you had it on in a pollination video! Great tip and video as always!
plant porno! I'm blushing, you should have rated this video to warn us! LMAO, sorry…I'm a bit twisted, it's my nature 😉
@MIgardener yes, I don't have allergies so it's not something that even crossed my mind. When I'm done pollinating I just suck my finger and eat the yummy pollen lol. I enjoy your videos.
@Praxxus55712 Minnesota does have some cold long nights. Now we know why he wanted coco seeds!
@MIgardener actually pepper plants have"perfect" flowers . meaning each flower contains both the male and female part. before the bloom opens the male part is pushed up against the female part transferring the pollen. this doesn't always work so bees and wind help the process. transferring pollen from one plant to the other is not how peppers pollinate, however they can cross pollinate with other types of peppers
Hmm .. I must have some busy bees in my garden that i'm not aware of cause i've got HEAPS of bell peppers on my 'tree' and I didn't even pollinate them myself.. Never even thought of doing it with bell peppers.. Interesting vid.. cheeers!
Hey I love your videos. I have a question about eggplant. I've got one flower. Doesn't look like i'll be getting more any time soon. Will it pollinate it's self? Or could I use another flower? I've got all kinds of peppers flowering and tomatillos. Thanks.
@MIgardener Oh I manually pollinate outside too sometimes (like pumpkin and Zucchini) just to be sure I get something out of it. The neighbours don't like bees so one day I may find there aren't any in the neighbourhood.
I was going to do this tomorrow to my cucumbers and squash, but I was going to make bee noises while I do it…..I told my husband I refuse to wear the bee outfit and wings.
@Watsamadoing They pollinate themself and they only need a bit of a shake from the wind
i took one of those electric handheld razors took off the blades and hot glued on a q-tip, its my "honey bee"
Do fruit flies pollinate?
what kind of a pepper plant is that? how is it flowering so early?
I was just thinking about how to do this. Great video will do this cross pollination. Thanks.
Does it have to be the flower of the same type of plant? Example pepper to pepper, or can it be pepper to squash ext.
So you have to have two? That may be why mines not producing in my indoor aquaponics
I thing u can try to cross Polinate and make a hybrid
Once had cross pollination between my bell peps & jalapenos 😉 The bell peppers became delicious!!! Slight amount of heat that worked out great in salads…
is one flower a male and another a female? Or are both flowers male and females?
For my indoor, winter blooming, citrus plants, I keep a specie's specific washed-peroxide dipped-distilled water rinsed, sable hair Japanese calligraphy brush that is marked for use on the handle and the same size tiny bags your showing you save seeds in. I keep the covered brushes stored in a 100% cotton roll up cloth when they are not in use between flowering seasons, brushes of this type can out-live your great-grandchildren's generation when stored this way. I don't condone killing animals for fur by any one, so now I am making my own brushes using my own, or purchased bamboo handles, silver jeweler's wire, and the shed hair my cats donate to the cause every day from being brushed. The Bamboo and silver wire are both antibacterial naturally, and the cat hair, washed and rinsed as above is maintained bacteria and fungal-free by contact with the silver and bamboo. Brushes, once readied, need never be washed again and can/do carry all prior uses pollens from year to year this way. I can then use a brush saved from a dead plant to cross fertilize and hybrid with a live plant I haven't killed yet ( I have a bad track record on watering my poor plants to death in the winters). Keep up the great videos, and it is wonderful watching you learn and grow, and keep us growing along with you. Forgive me for not giving each video a thumbs up, as they all deserve one, I would get too tired to watch more. 2 thumbs up for every one !!!
PS: there is no chlorine in distilled water, but there are also no minerals in it either.
I would like to know how you got even 2 flowers? I need help,
This only works if the plants are the same. Almost all pepper are self-pollinating or self-fruitfull which is why you can plant hot peppers and bell peppers side by side and they don't cross polllinate.
Oh my gosh! I didn’t realize how long you’ve been doing YouTube!
wait wtf LOL I DIDN'T RECOGNIZE YOU I WAS LIKE AWW HE'S SO CUTE AND HIS MANNERISMS