How to Hand Pollinate Plants

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How to hand pollinate plants. In this video, Dave demonstrates hand pollination on our watermelon plant. It’s an easy trick that gives bees a helping hand so your plants can thrive.

[@freebehindbars8654]

I’ve always taken the male flower off and used it on the female.

[@Joshwa-j3i]

its so cute and funny that plants reproduce like this 😂

[@fridomsnowbird6678]

It is smarter to take the pollen from a male flower from another plant of the same variety. You get a healthier germplasm.

[@grovermartin6874]

Your videography + your instructions make everything crystal clear!

[@jujubee7351]

I know the the flower on a squash female only opens up for one day so you have watch daily, does the same go for a watermelon?

[@landonlloyd9891]

A female flower might last a day and a half at most. Males seem to stick around for a while. and they open early morning to the afternoon

[@theheardhomestead]

Those aphids triggered my garden wars ptsd

[@Borwain03]

This is a type of Artificial Insemination, whereby we help the watermelon plant to become a mommy so that its baby (i.e. watermelon fruit) gets born, and when it becomes 18+ (i.e. riped), it's put to conscription duty by becoming a part of our healthy diet.

[@hydrogenneon]

He was my neighbor ... Now.i can never be in a fancy pie

[@Pinkpumpkingardener]

Can you pollinate a closed female if you haven’t caught her opened yet?

[@indigocheetah4172]

My mother would pollinate the paw paws in Australia .

[@mateuszgua4030]

Good stuff, keep up the good work chief!

[@jackjaym]

What if the male flower would identity as female?

[@peytdav3009]

Luckily science still applies to plant biology.

[@gorillaprutt]

Well as plants dont have gender identities i think they're good

[@Jason-o5s]

Cheer~~the transfer of pollen to a stigma, ovule, flower, or plant to allow fertilization.😊

[@andynightingale7335]

easier way is to get a cheap battery operated toothbrush and simulate what a bee does. I do this with tomato plants.

[@ukieadi]

permision to use this video for education on my country

[@Elizabeth_channel15]

Can you use pollinate from other flowers

[@jenniferrudd5588]

Thank you this was so helpful

[@TheSuburbanGardenista]

So interesting! Thank you!

[@texsis2112]

Can you do the same thing with tomatoes

[@enviiuk]

Unfortunately not! We simply give the tomato plant vines a bit of a shake/tickle. This is great for encouraging pollination. Hope this helps!

[@fridomsnowbird6678]

@texsis2112 the answer from enviiuk is incorrect. You can do the same thing with tomato plants if it has flowers with exerted stigmas. Most of the wild varieties of tomatoes have exerted stigmas including currant tomatoes. Most tomatoes that are grown in the US, heirloom and hybrid have inserted stigmas. These plants just need shaking to facilitate pollination.

[@marciegalo]

All worker bees are female ps

[@bsweat9230]

Ooh! I can do that!!!

[@hafsakhurram6047]

Chup😮

[@محمدعبدالله-ز9ي2ل]

BAD

[@purnp5897]

What would happen if you took the pollen from a totally different flower and pollinated the female watermelon flower?

[@j-sm4554]

If it's a different species it would not take.

[@purnp5897]

@@j-sm4554 oh ok, I take it this is across the board?

[@c.s.1227]

If they’re both watermelon then yes it will work. You will grow the watermelon species that you planted but the watermelons seeds will be the “new species”

[@PoonsYungv]

I had no idea there were male and female flowers

[@jesper6360]

I see you got some bugs to deal with.

[@joinuseo9392]

how many times do we need to do it?

[@SameeraChughtaisBackyardGarden]

Excellent sharing

[@Gin81593]

Tickle! Tickle! Tickle!

[@Ily-nh1jh]

Thank-you so much!

[@Rahul.patel48]

Can i do this method on my mango 🥭 tree?

[@enviiuk]

You can. However, the male flowers are a lot smaller and it could be quite fiddly, delicate and time consuming! Also not all mango varieties need hand pollination so just make sure to check this! Good luck.

[@Rahul.patel48]

@@enviiuk thanks for replying.. what about lemon tree? Should i do this on lemon tree and can i spray honey 🍯 water mixture on mango or lemon tree to attract pollinators?

[@handyjayes1]

Pregnant

[@odog7406]

Yet!

[@andreflores2178]

Bro really said male flower 😂😂😂

[@anonymous5072]

?

[@peytonh3921]

yea man you don’t know?

[@junthebiscuit]

someone missed science class

[@anonymous5072]

@@junthebiscuit I’m confused why he’s laughing

[@Rahul.patel48]

So ??

[@kingdomofme3681]

Is this possible for potatoe plants?

[@John-oj8ms]

🤰

[@otto8049]

I trained my bees to do that. They took to it like a duck to water.