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How to Pollinate Greenhouse Plants

Friday, November 06, 2009
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Instructions

  • Step 1:
    Cut off a male flower of the plant you are trying to pollinate. Male flowers have reproductive organs that look like tiny cotton swabs with yellow heads. This is called the stamen, and it consists of two parts: the anthers and the filaments. These are used to fertilize the female flowers.
  • Step 2:
    Peel back the protective flowering to expose the stamen. Rub the pollen-covered anthers onto the inside of female flowers, making sure that you concentrate on contacting the stigma, which is what accepts the pollen during fertilization. The stigma is the top of a long tube (the style) that comes from the ovaries.
  • Step 3:
    Use one male flower for every two to three female flowers. Perfect flowers consist of both male and female reproductive parts, but imperfect flowers have only one or the other. Some plants have only male or female flowers, so locating the correct flowers on these plants should be quite easy.

Tips & Warnings

  • Leave the doors and windows of your greenhouse open to allow insects to come in and pollinate the plants for you.
  • Some plants are self-pollinating, but just need a little help. Shake the plant slightly to allow the pollen to be released and land on the female parts of the plant.

Resources


How to Pollinate Greenhouse Plants Provided by eHow.com
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