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Re: [nafex] Re: Hand Pollination Tutorial?



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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