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  • From: Ginda Fisher <ginda@concentric.net>
  • To: nafex@yahoogroups.com
  • Subject: Re: [nafex] Re: Hand Pollination Tutorial?
  • Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 18:32:10 -0400

Maybe this is a dumb question, but is there anything difficult about
hand pollination? I assume the basics are to snip off the pollen
bearing parts of the female target before they mature, then bag it to
keep out the bees, and use a q-tip or something to move some pollen from
the male target.

I've only hand-pollinated indoor plants, and only to insure SOME
pollination, not to select the father, so I've only tried the q-tip part
(which works fine for big open flowers, such as pome fruits) but I
assume the rest isn't too hard. I'd use my little fingernail scissors
if I wanted to remove the stamens from the flowers.

Ginda Fisher
a much needed cool drizzle all day. It's a shame it didn't come before
all the blossoms opened. Everything from forsythia to apples is in
bloom.


On Monday, April 22, 2002, at 10:49 AM, crmauch wrote:

>> Has anyone come across a site devoted to hand pollination techniques
>> for
>> crossing pome fruits shown in this type of detail?
> Not that I've seen. I would be interested in seeing one.
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> I'd also like to have the references to the grafting sites, if
> possible. Some of the ones I liked have gone "off-air"
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> Thanks,
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> Chris Mauchline
> SE PA, zone 6
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