Post: Post Reply: Re: tomatoes by Jim C

Original Message: Re: tomatoes
Now, remember, I'm just a green-hacker, I'm not an expert. I have cucumbers growing in the top of one of my tomato planters. The first batch of blossoms for those I probably got 30 to 50 blossoms on the 9 plants, and only 1 cucumber. A friend whom I talked to about it asked if I get any bees on that 3rd floor balcony where the planters are. I told him no, he asked how do the flowers pollinate to make seeds and then fruit around the seed. I said good question. Since then I take a q-tip swab and touch each of the flowers back and forth (I call it plant sex) and pollinate the flowers. The new batch of blossoms is about 50% producing fruit or more. Now I don't know if this will help on a tomato, but I plan on trying it next year when I have bunches of blossoms to make sure they pollinate. It's easy and worth a try. _\|I/V\ C.

Original Message: Re: tomatoes

Now, remember, I'm just a green-hacker, I'm not an expert. I have cucumbers growing in the top of one of my tomato planters. The first batch of blossoms for those I probably got 30 to 50 blossoms on the 9 plants, and only 1 cucumber. A friend whom I talked to about it asked if I get any bees on that 3rd floor balcony where the planters are. I told him no, he asked how do the flowers pollinate to make seeds and then fruit around the seed. I said good question. Since then I take a q-tip swab and touch each of the flowers back and forth (I call it plant sex) and pollinate the flowers. The new batch of blossoms is about 50% producing fruit or more.

Now I don't know if this will help on a tomato, but I plan on trying it next year when I have bunches of blossoms to make sure they pollinate. It's easy and worth a try.

_|I/V\ C.

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