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Post by shoshannah on Sept 8, 2016 18:17:36 GMT -5
I have no idea where I picked up this idea. But for those with few pollinators and not too many tomato plants, it sounds like a good idea.
I haven't seen any bumbles on my maters but they have a lot of tomatoes this year. Don't know if my shaking them now and then
actually did the pollinating or not. I researched a bit today and it says that shaking the stems can pollinate them.
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Post by steev on Sept 8, 2016 19:19:18 GMT -5
People growing tomatoes in green-houses sometimes tickle them with an electric toothbrush or whatever small appliance tickles their fancy.
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Post by diane on Sept 8, 2016 20:04:33 GMT -5
I shake greenhouse plants every morning, but there is always a little breeze outside, so I never bother about outdoor plants.
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Sept 8, 2016 22:53:51 GMT -5
People growing tomatoes in green-houses sometimes tickle them with an electric toothbrush or whatever small appliance tickles their fancy. For me, it's an adult toy. I also use it to extract pollen from flowers to attempt manual pollinations. I love when I find a flower of the right age, and the pollen spews out, covering the spoon I collect it in. I have made a habit the past few years, since I did the cold-tolerance trial, to use a vibrator in the greenhouse, and on the earliest flowers to appear in the field. It seems like it leads to earlier fruit set. I don't worry about it later in the season. The only time it's been a problem, was one time the battery was almost dead, and it turned on in my pocket, and I thought I was having a medical crisis, because I couldn't get my leg to stop trembling.  |
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Post by richardw on Sept 9, 2016 0:34:19 GMT -5
I shake tunnelhouse plants also, but because all the plant are held up with string which its self is tied up to netting that faces flat/horizontal, all i have to do is shake the netting and all the plants get shook at the same time.
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Post by philagardener on Sept 9, 2016 6:06:49 GMT -5
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Post by nicollas on Sept 19, 2016 3:22:07 GMT -5
I shake my mutltiflora tomatoes
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Post by steev on Sept 19, 2016 20:21:09 GMT -5
People growing tomatoes in green-houses sometimes tickle them with an electric toothbrush or whatever small appliance tickles their fancy. For me, it's an adult toy. I also use it to extract pollen from flowers to attempt manual pollinations. I love when I find a flower of the right age, and the pollen spews out, covering the spoon I collect it in. Now that's "garden porn"! |
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