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Mandarin tree
gday, ive got a small Mandarin tree in a pot (a seedless Silverhill
clone/graft), its only maybe a year old and ive just noticed it has started to get quite a few small round flower balls which will open up soon, i guess it knows spring is here. Are mandarin trees self pollenating? and in that case can I collect their pollen and brush it on the stigmas to manually pollenate the flowers to get more fruit? |
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"Dave -Turner" wrote in message ... gday, ive got a small Mandarin tree in a pot (a seedless Silverhill clone/graft), its only maybe a year old and ive just noticed it has started to get quite a few small round flower balls which will open up soon, i guess it knows spring is here. Are mandarin trees self pollenating? and in that case can I collect their pollen and brush it on the stigmas to manually pollenate the flowers to get more fruit? Hi Dave, Mandarins are self pollinating but no matter how many flowers you pollinate the tree can only support so much. There will be a natural increase in fruit as the tree gets bigger. So basically you would be wasting your time pollinating flowers. Best to let mother nature do the job. Such a young tree would only have a handfull of fruit I reckon but I could be wrong. I so love the Imperial Mandarin it is best tasting in the mix. Even if it has seeds. I have also found that low hanging branches bear more fruit so some weights on the end of some branches may encourage more fruit. Good luck with it. Cheers Richard |
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Best to let mother nature do the job.
If you read that "Orange tree" thread just above this one youll see that mother nature doesn't always do as good a job as possible Also in my case the mandarin tree is in a pot plant that has a base that's regularly filled with water so no ants will be able to get into it without me helping them with some sort of bridge, so it'd just be up to bees and small birds. I think I'll give manual pollination a go |
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"Loosecanon" wrote in message ... "Dave -Turner" wrote in message ... gday, ive got a small Mandarin tree in a pot (a seedless Silverhill clone/graft), its only maybe a year old and ive just noticed it has started to get quite a few small round flower balls which will open up soon, i guess it knows spring is here. Are mandarin trees self pollenating? and in that case can I collect their pollen and brush it on the stigmas to manually pollenate the flowers to get more fruit? Hi Dave, Mandarins are self pollinating but no matter how many flowers you pollinate the tree can only support so much. There will be a natural increase in fruit as the tree gets bigger. So basically you would be wasting your time pollinating flowers. Best to let mother nature do the job. Such a young tree would only have a handfull of fruit I reckon but I could be wrong. I so love the Imperial Mandarin it is best tasting in the mix. Even if it has seeds. I have also found that low hanging branches bear more fruit so some weights on the end of some branches may encourage more fruit. This is the first year for mandarin tree (or is it the second?) and I got over 2 dozen this year. I should have removed a lot of them when they were tiny though, because the full grown fruit is only very small - but they taste great. Jen |
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"Dave -Turner" wrote in message ... Best to let mother nature do the job. If you read that "Orange tree" thread just above this one youll see that mother nature doesn't always do as good a job as possible Also in my case the mandarin tree is in a pot plant that has a base that's regularly filled with water so no ants will be able to get into it without me helping them with some sort of bridge, so it'd just be up to bees and small birds. I think I'll give manual pollination a go Mother nature did too good a job on mine. Too many fruit while the tree is still far too young. Jen |
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