I have a truss of flowers on one of my plants that never made pollen and therefore never got pollinated. Is there any point to keeping them on the plant or should I remove them?
They are standing in a south facing windowsill where they get about 14 hours of light per day, obviously through a window though so maybe not enough to make fruit.
They are in 25 litre pots that they got transplanted to about 2 weeks ago, after which they have completely exploded in growth height wise.
The flowers were not there when I transplanted the plant.
As far as I can tell the flowers now just contain a tiny fruit ovary which is about 1mm in diameter.
I’m guessing it has to do with humidity, any other suggestions as to why are appreciated.
by m4ilman__
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Look into the flower, is there a round oval thing? I believe that is the fruit. Tomato flower will drop after being pollinated, leaving behind a small tomato butt. Yours look like it did. If it wasn’t pollinated, you’d have blossom drop, where the pedicel, the flower stalk, drops too instead of just the flower falling off. If I’m misunderstanding your question/situation, do correct me.