November 21, 2024

VIDEO: Hand Pollination: How to Pollinate Plants by Hand


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Are you seeing plenty of flowers forming on your squash plants but not many fruit growing?

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In this short video we explain how to distinguish between male and female plants and demonstrate how you can manually pollinate your plants to ensure they produce a maximum amount of fruit.

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26 thoughts on “VIDEO: Hand Pollination: How to Pollinate Plants by Hand

  1. I learned on GQT the other day that some Flowers Only "Give Out" when they feel the Buzzing frequency of a Honey Bee's oscillations …
    BBBBBBZZZZZZZZZZZZ.. OOER

  2. I tried it on apricot flowers in February/March (no bees this year) but no luck. I didn't really see any pollen on the brush when I tried brushing the middle of flower. Not sure what I did wrong.

  3. Funny that I stumbled onto this video, as I was doing the very same thing just this morning! I didn't use a paint brush, but I did think that it'd probably be best suited for the purpose.

  4. If we would stop killing the bees, we wouldn't need to self pollenate. Albert Einstein said “If the  disappeared off the face of the Earth, man would only have four years left to live.” Stop spraying pesticides.

  5. My brush didn’t pick up any pollen. I found I only have male flowers. The female ones were all dead on shrivelled female fruit and flowers. Perhaps I started too late. I have lots of buds.

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