is it worth helping them with say a small paint brush?

"judith" wrote in message
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is it worth helping them with say a small paint brush?

I use a rabbit's tail - remove the rabbit first of course!!

Geoff

"Geoff" wrote in message
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"judith" wrote in message
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is it worth helping them with say a small paint brush?

I use a rabbit's tail - remove the rabbit first of course!!

Geoff

The most effective way I found was to trap some teased out cotton wool
in a split at the end of a thin cane and dab the open flowers with it.
The wool will gradually become yellow and this is an indication that the
pollen is being transferred satisfactorily.

Regards,
Emrys Davies.

On Tue, 29 May 2007 12:46:59 GMT, "Geoff" wrote and
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"judith" wrote in message
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is it worth helping them with say a small paint brush?

I use a rabbit's tail - remove the rabbit first of course!!


I've grown tomatoes for years to my total satisfaction (mostly
greenhouse) and I have never, never, interfered with or assisted their
sex-life. At most I've given the cane a little tap occasionally to
jog the flowers.



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I've grown tomatoes for years to my total satisfaction (mostly
greenhouse) and I have never, never, interfered with or assisted their
sex-life. At most I've given the cane a little tap occasionally to
jog the flowers.



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I am glad that someone has said that,I have never done anything to aid
pollination either, maybe I have just been lucky :-)

"judith" wrote in message
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is it worth helping them with say a small paint brush?

I use a small watercolour paint brush. it has been very successful all the
time I have used it.

Please use a different 'email' address as a lot of use have
in our killfiles!

"Kate Morgan" wrote in message
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I've grown tomatoes for years to my total satisfaction (mostly
greenhouse) and I have never, never, interfered with or assisted their
sex-life. At most I've given the cane a little tap occasionally to
jog the flowers.



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I am glad that someone has said that,I have never done anything to aid
pollination either, maybe I have just been lucky :-)

I like to be absolutely certain!(:-)

judith wrote:
is it worth helping them with say a small paint brush?

http://pollinator.com/self_pollinating_tomato.htm

http://gardening.wsu.edu/library/vege016/vege016.htm