An easy and quick guide how to hand pollinate flowers in your vegetable garden using Zucchini and Watermelon as examples.
In this video I’ll show you how to hand pollinate using a paint brush and how to hand pollinate without any tools.
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This is a video for anyone who wants to learn how to hand pollinate flowers in their vegetable garden in order to make their veggies grow there are certain vegetables that will not grow unless they’ve been pollinated zucchini is one of them watermelon is another one certain types of cucumbers uh are also
In that group as well some edible foods are self-pollinating so for example Tomatoes those flowers do need to be pollinated but a bit of wind and that will happen naturally if your Tomatoes aren’t growing for whatever reasons you can help the process along just by
Giving the tree a little bit of a shake when those flowers are open and lovely there are other edible plants which do specifically need pollen from a male flower to go into uh a female flour in order for that flour to turn into food like zucchini like watermelons I learned this the hard
Way let me show you how bees do that themselves so this is natural pollination in action and ideally you have plenty of these guys going around from flower to flour sticking their little faces into the center of each of the flowers and rubbing some of that pollen off on the
Next one doesn’t always work that way so when it doesn’t you can just help the process so I’m going to show you two different ways of hand pollinating the first is with a paint brush or you can alternatively just use a little cotton bud or anything that will transfer a bit
Of pollen from one to another I personally prefer a paintbrush just because it’s really easy and we’ve got lots lying around the house under here we’ve got the perfect example of easy to pollinate flowers so you can see two big open flowers there one connected to a
Thin stem that has no fruit attached one connected to a fruit I’ve got my paintbrush I’m going to get some pollen onto my paint brush there you go and then I’m going to rub that poet off onto the inside of the girl flower you know it’s a girl flower
Cuz the girl flowers have the babies baby is zucchini but doesn’t get pollinated the zucchini will go like that or that with some hot weather it sometimes only takes a few days for them to then grow to this size and be ready for your table before I show you how to
Hand pollinate watermelons using a slightly different method quick reminder hit the Subscribe button if you haven’t already we run full garden tours every month and show you everything that we are growing here in Melbourne Australia also if you could hit the like button that just helps other people find this
Video let’s keep going here are my watermelons at the back here there are several plants that I have stuck into two pots under there and they’re growing like Vines wrapping around now the flowers on watermelon plants are what potentially turn into watermelons if they are pollinated so
When you’ve got lots of flowers that come and go naturally I find it sometimes easier just to pick one off and I will literally rub the inside of that flour directly against other girl flowers you can see this is a boy flower be Co or a male because it’s got
No little fruit Bud there down here I have a girl flower and that is easy to tell cuz when you have a look at the base there you can see there’s that little bulge it will not turn into a fruit unless it’s pollinated so I get this guy and do some artificial
Insemination rub them against each other you’re just getting some pollen from one onto the other doing the work of the bees and that’s done
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Just wish my boy flowers grew at the same time as my girl flowers…..my boys are always late or non existent