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- From: mauch1@aol.com
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- Subject: [NAFEX] Asimina triloba
- Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 14:47:05 -0400
Hopefully you have more than one flowering. The variety 'Sunflower' is the only one
that I'm aware of that is theoretically self pollinating. I'd recommend you use a brush and
pollinate between your trees that way. It's easy and fairly quick. Find a flower that's quite dark
and look inside you should see the pistil in the center surrounded by a greyish/yellowish ball of
stamen with loose pollen. Take the brush and pick up some of this pollen, and place it on
the pistils of a another flower on a different variety. The flowers I think that are best
for receiving the pollen are starting to turn red, whose stamen 'ball' is still green and round.
If you did want to try the roadkill/rotten meat idea, I'd just put it under the tree on the ground.
It would attract enough flies and beetles to do the job.
Chris Mauchline
SE PA, zone 6
40° 5' N 75° 51'W
~650 ft elevation
SE PA, zone 6
40° 5' N 75° 51'W
~650 ft elevation
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[NAFEX] Asimina triloba,
mauch1, 05/26/2006
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